conviction + being right is 90% of the game

Mark Zuckerberg's advice to young entrepreneurs.

Read CH 1, 2, and 3 of this book. Go into debt if you have to.

Jensen Huang on why he rarely fires people and will instead “torture them into greatness” Jensen once told Stripe founder Patrick Collison that he didn’t like firing people and seldomly did it. When asked to elaborate on this, Jensen responds: “I’d rather improve you than give

The two jobs required to win at scale, according to DoorDash CEO Tony Xu: 1) Relentlessly optimize the present ("build the core"). 2) Patiently invent the future ("build the new"). He stresses that each requires a completely different management playbook to succeed.

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 and Charlie Songhurst are two of the best students of Silicon Valley history. So we brought them together on Cheeky Pint for their first-ever joint appearance, discussing everything from the business culture of the Bay Area, historical lessons for the AI industry, and why

PG’s 6 principles for making new things:

Good product design reduces clicks. Great product design reduces thinking

I re-interview our best performers. I set time aside to understand why they ramp faster, ship faster, understand customers better. Recently I got one of the best compliments about our organization. This engineer came from a really good startup. He joined when they were 20

Jony Ive: “Ideas are always fragile” “Ideas, by definition, are always fragile. If they were resolved, they wouldn’t be ideas. They would be products that were ready to ship.” The legendary designer reflects on what he learned at Apple: “I’ve come to learn that you have to

Steve Jobs: How the correct logo could save you millions.

This week's Uncapped guest was Roelof Botha, who runs Sequoia. We talked about his psychology leading the firm, how Sequoia makes decisions, and his views on the state of technology markets today. Unsurprisingly, I learned a ton. Hope you enjoy listening.

The Andrej Karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self

had front row seats to the biggest Y Combinator event yet Sam Altman talked about his time at YC, GPT-2, and the conviction for non-consensus ideas of course, at the end we pitched hillclimb & our data samples (he said yes😁) magical things happening at YC, don't drop out

Cursor hires every engineer and designer through a two-day onsite where they simulate building real products. CEO Michael Truell says it tests what a traditional coding interview can't: “Can they go end-to-end in the codebase?” “What would they build if left in a vacuum without

people who make non-consensus decisions to join a company make non-consensus decisions at the company

My first interview with @Shaunmmaguire, Partner @Sequoia. 0:30 How Elon works 8:11 Execution speed 15:40 The 15 levels of mathematicians 25:52 How Shaun assesses founders 29:31 Starting the next Bell Labs 32:43 Why it was so hard to invest in SpaceX in 2019 36:26 Working at

New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below. Curate People 0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 10:19 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create

Keith Rabois on the 3 most important lessons he learned from Peter Thiel “I’ve been working with Peter professionally for 23 years… The most important [lesson] in building a company is the importance of finding undiscovered talent… Back then we were competing with Yahoo and