entrepreneur

also referred to as: entrepreneurs

7 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 27, 2016 by Sam Altman · across every show →

Everything said about entrepreneur, oldest first

Sep 27, 2016 positive
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Sam Altman: Aggressiveness and asking directly are vital entrepreneurial traits
“Being willing to ask what you want and be somewhat aggressive are really important characteristics of being an entrepreneur.”
Sam Altman Sep 27, 2016 ▶ 13:30 Sam Altman : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Sep 27, 2016 neutral
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Altman: Founders should quit only after running out of ideas
“And a framework that I have for when to give up and when to keep working is it should be an internal, not an external decision. If people aren't Using it or if people are saying it's bad, that alone is not a reason to give up. You want to pay some attention to…”
Sam Altman Sep 27, 2016 ▶ 6:58 Sam Altman : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Jan 9, 2019
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Khosla: Choosing whose advice to trust is an entrepreneur's hardest decision
“Whose advice to trust on what topic is the single hardest decision an entrepreneur makes?”
Vinod Khosla Jan 9, 2019 ▶ 9:15 Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Jan 9, 2019 negative
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Khosla: Business plans are irrelevant except for evaluating how founders think
“So I often tell entrepreneurs a business plan is completely irrelevant other than to judge how somebody's thought about a problem, not what they're going to do.”
Vinod Khosla Jan 9, 2019 ▶ 13:34 Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
May 22, 2019 positive
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Aatrey: Almost all Meesho users became entrepreneurs through the platform
“Almost everyone who is using our app today has become an entrepreneur because of us. They were not doing this offline, like almost everyone.”
Vidit Aatrey May 22, 2019 ▶ 2:27 Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
Apr 25, 2026 positive
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Massad: Tech-adjacent creators get the most value from Replit, not engineers
“And what we've noticed is that people that are getting the most value out of our product, Tend to be the more tech-adjacent ones. Maybe people, product managers have written code many years ago, but don't worry about the development environment setup. Don't wa…”
Amjad Masad Apr 25, 2026 ▶ 4:28 Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2026
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Huang: Founders must embrace naive optimism to avoid paralyzing anxiety
“You want your mind to be, how hard can it be? And let the suffering come to you a little bit at a time. You know, don't imagine how hard it's going to be and let all of that turn into anxiety and not doing something about it.”
Jensen Huang Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 47:10 Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
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