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Mario
On the time YC cofounder @jesslivingston tore me a new one and changed the future org structure of Ramp:
At YC, we attended weekly office hours where every startup shared 1/ their weekly growth %, 2/ their biggest problem, and 3/ what they were doing to solve it.
That week in summer 2015 our startup Paribus had grown 20% w/w, our biggest problem ... See more
... See moreTelling me your product is “email”, makes me assume it’s similar to other email solutions. I will expect your competitors to be GMail or Outlook and your pricing will be similar. I will expect it to have an inbox and a way to filter spam. On the other hand, if you tell me your product is “chat” I will make completely different assumptions and I wil
Creating the supply of an otherwise scarce resource will make you very rich. If you control the supply of something scarce, you control the economics associated with the resource, and can create monopolies of many kinds.
Alex Crompton • 21st Century Alchemy | Entrepreneur First
“Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.”
Collab Fund • Respect Each Others’ Delusions
Unicorn founders did not go to business school, nor did they work at McKinsey. Instead, they were less career-oriented global citizens who typically worked in a startup before they became founders.
On average, they had 10 years of work experience prior to founding, mostly within product & engineering, and they almost always lived, worked or stud... See more
On average, they had 10 years of work experience prior to founding, mostly within product & engineering, and they almost always lived, worked or stud... See more
Feed | LinkedIn
Altman increasingly argued that “AI could lead to resource abundance,” meaning it could eliminate massive numbers of jobs and concentrate resources in the hands of a few, said Matt Krisiloff, a friend and former colleague of Altman’s who spearheaded the universal income project and now heads a fertility start-up that Altman invested in. “He has a b... See more
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing”
People who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error.
This quote is from a poem by Alexander Pope.
“all alpha in vc is basically a derivative of having a variant view on TAM”
In order to be credible, you must be authentic and true.
om.co • Brunello Cucinelli
To be credible, you must be consistent in the way you behave. Someone can say to you, “Listen, two years ago, you said something different.” In a split second, they know. That’s where lies that wonderful future for mankind.