Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work

Post by danielha » Thu, Mar 08, 2007, 8:20 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #9

ecuzzillo wrote: post #3

Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.

I thought most of them were funny too. Startups are basically comedies, or at least seem so in retrospect. One thing I've learned from YC is that practically all startups are broken in some way, no matter what face they show to the world. And novel kinds of breakage are the basis of humor.

Post by python_kiss » Thu, Mar 08, 2007, 9:10 AM UTC

danielha wrote: post #11

pg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought most of them were funny too. Startups are basically comedies, or at least seem so in retrospect. One thing I've learned from YC is that practically all startups are broken in some way, no matter what face they show to the world. And novel kinds of breakage are the basis of humor.

"Startups are basically comedies [...]" I've been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture. Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network...

Post by notabel » Thu, Mar 08, 2007, 6:23 PM UTC

danielha wrote: post #8

ecuzzillo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he always has been a suit: http://guykawasaki.com/about/index.shtml He got his MBA, then got into evangelizing about Apple through a friend. I think I would count MBAs who evangelize about Apple as suits. Edit: By the way, nothing about being a suit means you're not nice, of course. I would assume that most suits are probably nicer than most hackers, because it's the job of a suit to say nice things, while it…

Well, I guess I meant it more in the sense that he's always been self-deprecating about being an MBA since he likes to promote the entrepreneur over the businessman. For a suit, he understands the culture pretty well.

Post by danielha » Fri, Mar 09, 2007, 10:58 AM UTC

lupin_sansei wrote: post #16

bootload wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'... been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture ...' AGENT: "So tell me about the show, what's it about?" NERD #1: "Well its 4 guys, sitting inside on computers typing, making jokes, writing code and eating pizza trying to reshape the social networks in cyberspace." AGENT: "So do you go outside?" GEEK #1: "No, we don't need to. I just look u…

You obviously haven't watched the IT Crowd: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=it+crowd&search=Search

Post by Alex3917 » Fri, Mar 09, 2007, 2:50 PM UTC

python_kiss wrote: post #4

ecuzzillo wrote: post #3

Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.

I could tell from my coversation with him that he is genuinely a nice person. Guy hasn't always been a "suit" btw. He started out as an Apple evangelist, not a venture capitalist. He has an inspiring video that might change your view of him: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html That said, his book "The Art of Start" did not live upto my expectations. I felt that it was too practical; consequently,…