Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]

Post by Htsthbjig » Fri, Oct 10, 2014, 1:23 PM UTC

spindritf wrote: post #21

huuu wrote: post #14

As others are saying: almost unwatchable due to the bad editing. The site also has a ton of tracking going on. Seems to me this interview is all about (Bloomberg/YC) advertising. But I got one interesting quote from PG. Funding multiple startups at once gives the startups the benefit of having colleagues. It's nice to have others around while working on your own idea. Maybe this could be the standard in bigger compan…

It doesn't help with video editing, but you can avoid the other stuff by downloading the video with youtube-dl[1]. Yes, it works on sites other than youtube. Sometimes[2]. [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html [2] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

Post by nwenzel » Fri, Oct 10, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #35

trevmckendrick wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Made you smile because you think he actually had already done the math? Or because he did it fast right there and corrected her? I smiled too, because of the latter.

There's volumes there. Some combination of the sentiment that $900 million isn't nearly the most interesting thing going on about YC [+] and the notion that while $900 million isn't important enough to think about you'd have to correct a math error on it because math. [+] A totally reasonable sentiment, which makes me smile in about three different ways. Once for not caring about money, once for having the luxury to…

Post by ovatsug25 » Fri, Oct 10, 2014, 2:06 PM UTC

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Post by dharma1 » Fri, Oct 10, 2014, 2:53 PM UTC