Jensen Huang: It's easier to fall in love with what you do than to find what you love. “A lot of people say, ‘Find something you love.’ I don’t know about that. I guess I’ve fallen in love with many things that I do. I loved it when I was a dishwasher. I loved it when I was a

Elon Musk on how choosing the wrong VC almost killed Tesla. "If you have a choice of a lower valuation with someone you really like or a higher valuation with someone you have a question mark about, take the lower valuation.". Elon tells part of the story of how he got this wrong

Peter Thiel on the importance of pitching your startup as a “discount to the future”. Most founders will pitch their startup valuation as a sort of premium on the last round (e.g. “Our valuation last year was X, we’ve made Y progress, and now we deserve a valuation 2x greater.”)

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Patrick Collison on the importance of waiting a really long time to hire people. Everybody tells you “work really hard to hire the best people.” But as Patrick explains, that’s not helpful because everyone knows they should do that. As he puts it:. “The question is to what length

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Sam Altman on the advice he wishes he received earlier in his career. “One of the other things I learned that I wish I had gotten advice on early in my career is ‘ask for what you want.’ You will get told no a lot, but sometimes it will work. And I think you see a lot of

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Twitch founder Emmett Shear on how to resolve product roadmap disagreements. Emmett argues that disagreement on what to build is actually quite rare after everyone has talked to users and looked at the data. Most disagreements in startups arise because people like to come up

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Elad Gil: “The best companies are almost always incredibly capital efficient”. Elad observes that a lot of the biggest companies in the world (e.g. Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay, etc.) didn’t raise a lot of money and were very capital efficient:. “I think there’s two reasons for

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Larry Page’s response to Steve Jobs’s critique that Google lacks focus. When asked about Steve Jobs’s critique that Google is doing too many things and lacks focus, Page jokes:. “I mean he was right. He did fine as well.”. But Page does admit Google’s lack of focus is something

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Ben Silbermann explains how Pinterest found product/market fit. Ben recalls somebody asking him what his “big plan” for Pinterest was. He responded:. “I just want to go somewhere and see somebody that I don’t know using something that I made and have it be kind of useful. That is

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Sequoia partner Michael Moritz explains why Bill Gates had the radio removed from his car dashboard. When asked what founder obsession looks like, Moritz gives two examples. The first is Apoorva Mehta, founder & CEO of Instacart. Before investing in Instacart, Michael asked

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Jack Dorsey on what he learned about culture from 49ers coach Bill Walsh. When Bill Walsh joined the 49ers, they were the worst team in the NFL. Within three years, they were Super Bowl Champions. In his book, The Score Takes Care of Itself, he writes:. “Winners act like winners

Steve Jobs explains the importance of both thinking and doing. “The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person.”. This is applicable outside of tech too, and he uses Leonardo DaVinci as

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