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every year 2017 anyone Craig Cannon 45Cory Doctorow 38Michael Seibel 28Gustaf Alströmer 24Paul Buchheit 22Ed Baker 22Tom Blomfield 18Sam Altman 18Dalton Caldwell 17Garry Tan 16
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Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:30 Des Traynor Like, if you're, like, selling shareheads on Facebook or something like that, it's like, just,
- ▶ 43:59 Des Traynor I think a lot of startups fall down there when they're like, oh, we sync your Facebook to your Instagram and we can do X and Y
There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:25 Kevin Slavin Uh, iOS arrived, and we were like, oh, we'll make an iOS game, and, and then, and then Facebook games started to happen, just really, just, just started to happen, and we, we built one that was insanely successful by early Facebook… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:03 Kevin Slavin You know, we, we, we didn't go into it to do Facebook games or, or any of that.
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:58 Craig Cannon Like if you spend two years working at Facebook or Twitter or Google, a lot of your work is gone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:30 Robin Sloan It was killed by Twitter and Facebook, and just really the sense that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:43 Robin Sloan They are, like, everyone's on Facebook, but I think they're also kind of not.
Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:25 Szymon Sidor And, you know, it, despite, like, all those smart people working on those problems, like, only very recently did Facebook kind of
- ▶ 4:31 Craig Cannon Um, so I think one of the most common questions or threads of question that were asked on Twitter and Facebook were generally how to get into AI.
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:00:15 Camille Ricketts It's totally booked, like, everything that people thought was what, was the way to do email newsletters, and then Heaton Shaw, who I'm, like, a devotee of, I think he's so brilliant about content, he has a long-form newsletter that's… 4 times in the scene
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:38 Ryan Hoover When you're trying to take someone from like Google or Facebook, they're getting paid
- ▶ 47:34 Ryan Hoover I wish I could credit them is it's hard to predict, you know, early in the worldwide web days, like that, that, uh, Facebook would be a thing like, it's hard to extrapolate and go that far because you just don't have the mental model or,…
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:36 Courtland Allen So it's social things like Facebook or search, you know, applications like Google, versus things that are profitable.
- ▶ 22:19 Craig Cannon They're like, why would I build a forum when I could get discussion, you know, even with, like, my own Facebook group? 3 times in the scene
Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:31 Avni Patel Thompson We did Facebook campaigns.
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:21 Craig Cannon Yeah, and then it was like two years, and then Facebook acquired you guys? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:13 Tikhon Bernstam That's such a great question, and I, that's, okay, um, yes, absolutely, and I, I actually think repeat founders are some, that's, are actually a disadvantage in many ways, because you feel this pressure to come up with some genius idea,…
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:48 Lauren McCarthy Facebook kind of changes their underlying infrastructure, uh, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:25 Craig Cannon So what about that, um, because that was, wasn't it the Electric Objects Project where you were, like, on people's Facebook pages?
Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:01 Laura Behrens Wu And then you use the channels like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, if you're like a millennial or Gen Z, whatever those generations are called, like you use the right channels to reach, to reach your audience and you tell a personal story…
- ▶ 16:09 Laura Behrens Wu Um, if we look at, I don't know, Poshmark, Vinted, Macari, eBay, whatever those are called, or even Facebook Marketplace, like where stuff, especially it seems like young women and mothers selling like used items and getting a lot of fun…
The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:16 Wade Foster Facebook gets better because all your friends use Facebook.
Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:40 Morgan DeBaun Um, and it was called Quad Connect, and so it was basically, um, you could find free food on campus, so this was before Facebook events, like, really were a thing, so we were, like, scraping all these campus calendars, and then aggregating…
- ▶ 6:02 Morgan DeBaun And watching things happen on Facebook, and again, you have to remember that this was two, three years ago, so this was before trending topics on Facebook, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Morgan DeBaun Again, this is back when, like, Upworthy was a thing, and, like, you know, Facebook, right, there's all these different things happening.
- ▶ 14:46 Morgan DeBaun Um, so I'm like, well, can you take out all that money they spent on Facebook ads, and then compare me?
Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:06 Juan Benet Everyone trusts, uh, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Airbnb, or whatever.
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:43 Ed Baker yeah, I guess, 2007, summer of 2007 when Facebook launched the platform was, I think, part of that explosion of just crazy viral growth spammy apps on the Facebook platform. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43 Ed Baker yeah, I guess, 2007, summer of 2007 when Facebook launched the platform was, I think, part of that explosion of just crazy viral growth spammy apps on the Facebook platform. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:45 Gustaf Alströmer So you have Facebook platform, you have the mobile platform, you have Google, SEO, there's a bunch of larger platforms that makes people actually care about investing in them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 Josh Elman Um, so, Ed, I remember your company got acquired by Facebook, and you kind of jumped into a little bit more mature growth team at Facebook.
- ▶ 8:03 Ed Baker Um, well so, one thing I learned at Facebook was, I, I, I really liked how the growth team there was structured with all functions. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Ed Baker But, uh, yeah, I think that was one of the, the big takeaways from Facebook.
- ▶ 11:33 Ed Baker I'd say at Uber, there were kind of three big differences from Facebook when I went over there, in terms of forming our initial growth team. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Ed Baker So, Facebook, we didn't really do very much paid acquisition, but, um, at Uber, we had an entire performance marketing team.
- ▶ 16:05 Gustaf Alströmer I would say, um, a lot of those platforms that you are doing growth on, Google, Facebook, um, they are turning, kind of, the opportunity of doing free growth there is getting smaller, and the opportunity of doing paid growth better is…
- ▶ 18:29 Gustaf Alströmer So they are really good at online marketing, they're really good at SEO, they're really good at reality, or the Facebook platform, or something like that.
- ▶ 19:00 Josh Elman Facebook's gotten relatively expensive to be buying on Google's various platforms and video.
- ▶ 20:16 Josh Elman The tip I got yesterday at F eight talking about to Facebook folks is they think Instagram app install ads are significantly underpriced relative to Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:31 Ed Baker Um, WeChat's, you know, like a mess, the messaging app, or the Facebook of, sorry, the Facebook, and also the Internet of China, really. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Gustaf Alströmer Whether it's authentication like Facebook Connect, whether it's payment mechanisms, uh, search SEO, and just like identify those gaps.
- ▶ 25:55 Ed Baker So I'll share one interesting example from Facebook. 3 times in the scene
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:26 Jeff Bussgang Would Sheryl, if she had never gotten an MBA and never taken the two years out, would she have scaled as an executive and as a leader at Google and then later at Facebook?
- ▶ 27:15 Jeff Bussgang And I think what I say to people when I talk to young professionals who ask me that question is if you have high conviction that you're in the middle of a Google or a Facebook or a LinkedIn and you've got mentors and you've got a great…
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:04 Craig Cannon Do you think AI will be like dominated by massive companies like Google, Facebook? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Tim Hwang I was like, why do we think about like Siri or like the Google assistant as like AIs, but we don't necessarily think about like the Facebook newsfeed as an AI, right?
Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:44 Ryan Ridley Uh, but I have said, I have replied to him a couple of times and said, cause the problem is that you, you know, like I'll get a Facebook message or an Instagram message or a,
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:22 Ed McManus So maybe a better comparison today would be like Facebook, right? 2 times in the scene
Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:58 Ammon Bartram Um, whereas the, the big companies, you know, Facebook, Dropbox, Apple, Google, are more likely to say, we care about,
- ▶ 20:46 Ammon Bartram Uh, so, so Facebook, for example, has started providing a sort of an interview prep class to everyone who applies so that they're sort of going over the material. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Craig Cannon So say I live in Salt Lake City, and I'm interested in getting a job, possibly at Facebook.
Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Sam Altman If you work at Facebook or Google or something like that, um, it's probably almost as co-founder rich as Stanford.
- ▶ 13:46 unnamed speaker But you'll notice that if you go work at Facebook or Google, one of the things they do in your first few weeks is an HR person sits you down and like beats out of you every smart person you've ever met.
- ▶ 37:35 Sam Altman Um, Facebook has this famous poster that says, move fast and break things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:54 Sam Altman To use a Facebook example again, when Facebook's growth slowed in 2008, uh, Mark instituted a growth group. 5 times in the scene
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:50 Drew Houston Um, I like to study just, uh, the history of business, um, and, and really excellence, and so learning, uh, about, okay, well, it's one thing to know how Google was built or how Facebook was built,
- ▶ 26:58 Drew Houston But they didn't get distribution right, and they didn't get virality right, and I had been paying attention when, you know, when the Facebook platform started to take off, and, um, and a lot of the gaming, and you had these companies which…
Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:31 Kat Manalac Um, the all, the other thing I would say is if you have any proof that there is a need for what you're building, say you've built an email list or maybe you've built a community, um, on maybe it's just a Facebook community, but if you show…
Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:21 Sam Altman And I would, Facebook somewhat split the difference. 2 times in the scene