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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I wish upon you plenty of pain and suffering” “There’s a phrase that says you should choose your career based on your passion. And usually people connect passion with happiness… Nothing there is wrong, but there’s something missing. And the reason for

"Before Growth" by Sam Altman

"I think the right initial metric is “do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?” Until that’s a “yes”, founders are generally better off focusing on this instead of a growth target." - Sam Altman

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Pedro Franceschi on the advice Paul Graham gave him about scaling Brex In 2019, Brex was generating more than $100 million in revenue, scaling, and growing really fast. Founder Pedro Franceschi recalls having a conversation with Paul Graham around this time and asking, “What’s

Pedro Franceschi explains why Brex doesn’t hire “people managers” anymore One day Brex founder Pedro Franceschi made a list of all of the leaders at the company who worked and didn’t work. “I was trying to find what was predictive of leadership success,” he explains. “A lot of

Sam Altman on maintaining conviction when Elon said OpenAI had a “0% chance of success” “It is hard to have conviction in the face of a lot of other people telling you you’re wrong. I think people who say it’s easy are not being honest.” Sam tells the audience of founders at Y

Marc Andreessen on Mark Zuckerberg’s founder “superpower” “There are certain fields in which you really get to see somebody’s core personality. You get to see their core attributes, their core virtues, their core vices, and their core weaknesses. And it’s really only under

Marc Randolph on how it took Netflix a year and a half to find product/market fit When Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded Netflix the model didn’t work at all. As Marc tells it: “You ordered a disk. We mailed it to you with a due date. If you missed the due date, we had

Mark Zuckerberg on how to avoid bad hires when your startup is growing quickly As Mark explains, every fast-growing startup will repeatedly face the choice: “Do I hire the person who’s in front of me now because they seem good?” or “Do I hold out to get someone who’s even

Sam Altman on the advice he wish he received when he enrolled in YC in 2005 Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan asks OpenAI founder Sam Altman what he wish knew when he was going through YC back in 2005. Sam responds: “I wish someone had taught me the importance of conviction and

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

Peter Thiel on what he would look for if he was joining a startup Wharton professor Adam Grant asks Peter Thiel what he would look for if he was joining an early-stage startup. Thiel gives a simple response: “Do you like the people? Do you think you could become good friends

Marc Andreessen: Every innovator “eventually starts to like the taste of their own blood” “Once something works, the stories get retconned and adapted to say ‘it was inevitable all along’, ‘everybody always knew this was a good idea’. The person has won all these awards and

Steve Jobs on his strategy for saving Apple from bankruptcy Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy when Steve Jobs returned to the company in July of 1997. The clip below is from a CNBC interview three months later. When asked about his strategy for turning the company around,

Keith Rabois on how to identify great talent “What you want to do with every single employee every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks… and that’s the role they should stay in.” Keith tells the story of giving an intern the task of getting

Elon Musk: “Technology does not automatically improve” “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. And actually it will I think—by

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Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to design an amazing user experience “How do you make something for a million people? I don’t know where to start. But if you pick one person, study them, and take their journey, you can actually build something really personal. You can design