Startup Growth — Foundry
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DoorDash's Founder Won by Going Where Nobody Else Wanted To Go
— Tony Xu
Ed Catmull Spent 26 Years Working With Steve Jobs. Here's How He Won Arguments.
— Ed Catmull
Stripe's John Collison: You Can't Skip Steps. Every Giant Company Had to Be Small First.
— John Collison
Peter Thiel: Your Startup's Name Predicts Whether It Will Succeed or Fail
— Peter Thiel
Elon Musk Slept on the Tesla Factory Floor for 3 Years. Here's Why.
— Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson: Every Genius He's Studied Was Driven by Childhood Demons
— Walter Isaacson
Sam Altman: Clarity of Thinking, Speed, and Quality of Execution Are All Linked
— Sam Altman
Doug Leone: If You're Desperate, That's a Great Asset
— Doug Leone
Joe Lonsdale Learned This Rule from Peter Thiel: Five Reasons Means Zero Reasons
— Joe Lonsdale
Naval Ravikant: Don't Chase Trends. Chase What You Know That Others Don't.
— Naval Ravikant
Elon Musk Says Innovation Is Simple: Just Try
— Elon Musk
Bill Gurley Says Work-Life Balance Is a Lie (For People Who Want to Be Great)
— Bill Gurley
How Facebook Brought Dead Users Back to Life
— Alex Schultz
How Mark Zuckerberg Cut Through Facebook's Analysis Paralysis with One Sentence
— Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook's VP of Growth Says You Are Optimizing for the Wrong User
— Alex Schultz
Discord Got Its First 50 Users From One Reddit Post
— Jason Citron
Naval Ravikant: Just Shut It Down and Start Over
— Naval Ravikant
The Coinbase CEO's Superpower: Not Caring What You Think
— Brian Armstrong
Elon Musk Showered at the YMCA While Building His First Company
— Elon Musk
Brian Chesky's 7-Star Framework: How to Design a Product People Tell Everyone About
— Brian Chesky
Floodgate's Mike Maples: Stop Trying to Think of Startup Ideas
— Mike Maples
Sam Altman: The Paul Graham Advice Nobody Follows That Changes Everything
— Sam Altman
Elon Musk Caught Interns Waiting for Coffee and Sent a Company-Wide Memo
— Elon Musk
Box Founder: The Only Way to Beat Giants Is to Attack Their Business Model
— Aaron Levie
Zuckerberg Explains Why a Ragtag Group of Kids Beat Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo
— Mark Zuckerberg
Michael Seibel: Nobody Remembers When Google Launched. Stop Obsessing Over Yours.
— Michael Seibel
Aaron Levie Lost Tens of Millions by Saying 'No' to Customers. He'd Do It Again.
— Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie: Interview 100 People and Just Listen to Where They Waste Time
— Aaron Levie
Marc Andreessen: The Best Founders Navigate the Idea Maze Like Chess Masters
— Marc Andreessen
Drew Houston: Great Distribution Beats Great Product Every Time
— Drew Houston
Marc Andreessen: You're Almost Certainly Too Early, Not Too Late
— Marc Andreessen
Sequoia's Alfred Lin: Stop Saying You're Better. Start Saying You're Different.
— Doug Leone
Marc Andreessen: The Best Founders Spent 5-10 Years Thinking Before They Started
— Marc Andreessen
Paul Graham: Do Things That Don't Scale. Everyone Knows This. Nobody Does It.
— Paul Graham
Peter Thiel vs. Eric Schmidt: Has Technology Actually Stagnated?
— Peter Thiel
Sam Altman: His Two Biggest Mistakes When Starting Y Combinator
— Sam Altman
Kevin Systrom's Brutal Hiring Truth
— Kevin Systrom
Dalton Caldwell's Counterintuitive Take on Startups
— Dalton Caldwell
Stanley Tang: We Launched DoorDash in an Hour. With a Landing Page and a Phone Number.
— Stanley Tang
John Collison: Startups Have Path Dependence. You Can't Skip Steps.
— John Collison
Sam Altman's #1 Rule for Founders
— Sam Altman
Apoorva Mehta's Darkest Moment at Instacart
— Apoorva Mehta
Sam Altman: Build the Fastest Iterating Company the World Has Ever Seen
— Sam Altman
How Brian Chesky’s Crushed the Competition
— Brian Chesky
The Collison Installation: How Stripe's Founders Went to Your Office and Installed Their API for You
— Patrick Collison
Naval Ravikant's Playbook for Building a Marketplace
— Naval Ravikant
How Elon Musk Finds Startup Ideas Worth Building
— Elon Musk
Elon Musk on the Technologies Shaping Humanity
— Elon Musk
Jessica Livingston: Your Startup Idea Is Going to Evolve. Let It.
— Jessica Livingston
Bill Ackman: Make a Little Progress Every Day
— Bill Ackman
Peter Thiel: Think of the Future on Three Horizons
— Peter Thiel
Max Levchin: Yelp Started as a Local Review Site for Just San Francisco. Then It Conquered the World.
— Max Levchin
Daniel Ek Was Too Naive to Know Spotify Would Fail
— Daniel Ek
Elon Musk Slept on the Office Couch and Showered at the YMCA
— Elon Musk
Vinod Khosla: Experts Only Extrapolate the Past. That Is Why They Miss Everything.
— Vinod Khosla
Steve Jobs Refused to Do Market Research. Bill Campbell Explains Why.
— Steve Jobs
Suhail Doshi: I've Watched 15 Companies Go Viral and Then Die. It's Called the Shark Fin Effect.
— Suhail Doshi
Elon Musk: Starting a Company Is Like Eating Glass While Staring Into the Abyss
— Elon Musk
Paul Graham: Start With a Small, Intense Fire. Make One User So Happy They'd Be Bummed if You Stopped.
— Paul Graham
Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom: Most Successful Things Are Pivots
— Kevin Systrom
Ben Horowitz: The Framework for Making Decisions That Will Haunt You
— Ben Horowitz
Alexis Ohanian: Reddit Was Born From a 1-Hour Brainstorm That Changed Everything
— Alexis Ohanian
Paul Graham Gave Airbnb One Piece of Advice. It Changed Everything.
— Paul Graham
OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor: How to Decide What to Work on Next
— Bret Taylor
Flexport Founder Ryan Peterson: Get Ramen Profitable in 90 Days or Die
— Ryan Petersen
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's Growth Team Was the Most Important Product Feature We Ever Built
— Mark Zuckerberg
Ev Williams: Medium Started With Knowing 30%. The Other 70% Came From Building.
— Ev Williams
Emmett Shear Killed a 30-Million-User Product to Chase a 400K Side Feature
— Emmett Shear
Tony Fadell: What Made Steve Jobs Different Was Not Vision. It Was Opinions.
— Tony Fadell
Stewart Butterfield: Give Up on Your Idea When You're Out of Ideas for How to Fix It
— Stewart Butterfield
Keith Rabois: The Formula for Startup Success Is Simpler Than You Think
— Keith Rabois
Reid Hoffman: The Products That Win Are the Ones Built on Human Nature
— Reid Hoffman
Reed Hastings: The Most Important Thing at Netflix Is Focus. Not Innovation.
— Reed Hastings
Drew Houston: Investors Said Online Storage Is a Commodity. He Asked Them One Question.
— Drew Houston
Michael Seibel: Go After the Customers Who Are Desperate, Not the Ones Who Are Convenient
— Michael Seibel
April Dunford: Five Steps to Position Your Product So It Actually Sells
— April Dunford
Marc Andreessen: The Most Successful Companies Started as Products, Not Companies
— Marc Andreessen
Tony Fadell: I Try to Run Away From a Great Idea. Then It Stalks Me.
— Tony Fadell
Mark Zuckerberg: The Best Advice Peter Thiel Ever Gave Him
— Mark Zuckerberg
Reed Hastings: The CEO's Only Job at a Startup Is Setting Context
— Reed Hastings
Eight Sleep Founder: Five Interview Questions That Reveal Everything About a Candidate
— Matteo Franceschetti
Steve Jobs: Thinking and Doing Are Both Important. But Doing Comes First.
— Steve Jobs
Bret Taylor: The Hardest Part of Being a Founder Is Managing Your Own Psychology
— Bret Taylor
Mark Pincus: Do Not Overlook Mature Markets. That Is Where the Money Is.
— Mark Pincus
Chamath Palihapitiya: Find Your Product's Magic Moment or Die
— Chamath Palihapitiya