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Shaan Puri: Y Combinator Is Probably the Most Successful Tech Startup
“Paul Graham, who created YC, which is, I think probably the most successful tech startup actually, because it created sure all these other tech startups and like I created Dropbox and it created Airbnb. They probably wouldn't like to say created, but like they…”
Puri: Multi-billion dollar businesses are platforms for communities, not single communities
“I don't think communities are great big businesses. Community of communities of communities can be great big businesses. Discord is a community of communities. Reddit is a community of communities. And both of those are like 10 billion-ish sized companies.”
Shaan Puri: Strong businesses use technology to scale organic user trends
“One common way to do a business is that is you observe an organic trend and you say, cool, could I use tech to make this more efficient and to actually like ramp this up?”
Puri: Reddit Tracked Private Jets to Scoop Kawhi Leonard's Clippers Signing
“And all the reporters were trying to like work their sources, but like their sources are basically like teams leaking information that makes them look good, and the agent leaking information that just like is a negotiation in public against other teams, and Re…”
Solo-blogging for The Hustle early on was Sam Parr's most fun
“Mine was when I first started the hustle and I was the only employee blogging and trying to game Reddit and get all this traffic was the most fun I had because I, it created these dopamine rushes where like it sucked. And then like one of our articles got like…”