Vivek Ravisankar
11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2018 by Vivek Ravisankar · across every show →
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Mar 30, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 negative
Ravisankar: US grad school review pivot led to second YC rejection
“That actually took off a bit, but then after three months or so, the traffic was down to zero. Turns out you can only apply twice a year. So we didn't know what to do for the rest of the year. We actually applied to YC even with this idea. We got turned down.”
Mar 30, 2018 negative
Mar 30, 2018 bearish
Ravisankar: 90-day bootcamps promising expert status act as a negative signal
“I mean, there are a lot of them who, there are a set of bootcamps who say, you know what, come here, doesn't matter whether you know how to code or not, I'll help you become a great React developer in 90 days. I mean, it's, that's not how it works, right? And …”
Mar 30, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 bullish
Ravisankar: Engineering Teams Will Move Away From Bay Area Concentration
“I think the future would be an ability for you to build out engineering teams wherever you want, and not just restrict yourself to the Bay Area, and a good common connective tissue that makes sure that things don't break because of bad communication or because…”
Mar 30, 2018 neutral
Ravisankar: Student debt and visas create startup inertia for master's grads
“You do two years of masters, then you do two to three years of working in different companies to pay back the loan, and there's all of these visa things. And by the time you want to start, you're already, I don't know, close to five, six years invested in this…”
Mar 30, 2018 positive
Ravisankar: Developers motivated by money hit ceilings sooner than builders
“If you had a monetary value associated with it you might just focus a lot on that and you will reach a ceiling pretty soon. This is just my hypothesis. So versus if you're, if you really
Fall in love with the idea of building or creating new things. The ceili…”
Mar 30, 2018 negative
Ravisankar: Startups should recruit their first ten engineers from untapped talent pools
“The current ways of doing proxy on GPAs and degrees is bad, and you have to figure out your first 10 people almost from that untapped pool. I think it helps a lot in your drive and motivation for the long term. That's just my hypothesis, but I just have one da…”
Mar 30, 2018 negative
Mar 30, 2018 positive
Ravisankar: Truly great developers code to build things, not for salaries
“In a very longer term the really great developers are people who did it, not because they'll get a job, but because they really wanted to,
Build something. They really wanted to get this, whatever the idea that they had in mind out.”