ABOUT THIS EPISODEAffirm CEO and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin talks with Kara Swisher about being a serial entrepreneur and discovering more about himself in the process. He also discusses why startup founders and investors are increasingly flocking to finance, the problems with banking that tech can solve and what Marissa Mayer is doing right at… Continue reading Decoder with Nilay Patel : Recode Decode: Max Levchin, Affirm CEO
Month: January 2016
How to Start a Startup : 14 – Keith Rabois – How to Operate
ABOUT THIS EPISODEWhat should the CEO be doing on a day to day basis? How do you make sure the company is moving in the right direction? Keith Rabois, Partner at Khosla Ventures and former COO of Square, tackles the nitty gritty – How to Operate. Lots of actionable takeaways from this lecture! Lecture Transcript:… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 14 – Keith Rabois – How to Operate
How to Start a Startup : 15 – Ben Horowitz – How To Manage
ABOUT THIS EPISODEYou are not the only one whom your decisions impact. Ben Horowitz, founder of Andreessen Horowitz and Opsware, discusses this important management perspective that founders miss, with, of course, the gratuitous rap lyric or two sprinkled in. From YC Startup Class – How to Start a Startup – Stanford CS183B Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/B-horowitz-lecture-15-how-to-manage-annotated… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 15 – Ben Horowitz – How To Manage
How to Start a Startup : 01 – Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz – Intro to the course, “How to Start a Startup”
ABOUT THIS EPISODELecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup. See the… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 01 – Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz – Intro to the course, “How to Start a Startup”
How to Start a Startup : 02 – Sam Altman – Team and Execution
ABOUT THIS EPISODESam Altman finishes up “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution” by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup. Links: Blog post: Stupid Apps and Changing the World by Sam Altman Blog post: Do things that don’t scale by Paul Graham Click to view: show page on Awesound https://media.awesound.com/t/thwhttyre.mp3Podcast:… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 02 – Sam Altman – Team and Execution
How to Start a Startup : 20 – Sam Altman – Later-Stage Advice
ABOUT THIS EPISODESam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in (after product-market fit). Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton! From YC Startup Class – How to Start a Startup – Stanford CS183B… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 20 – Sam Altman – Later-Stage Advice