Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
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Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
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Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#2Great interview, I think Jessica was the secret sauce that made YC so good.
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#3Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says...
>>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on.
I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#4Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Remember to translate out of startup-speak: "change the world" means "make a lot of money for our investors".
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#5Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
If my Dropbox gets hacked, I would seriously get very worried. If my Facebook gets hacked, I'd be merely annoyed.
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#6Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Maybe not directly, but I think it did have a cultural influence:
* Helped people trust the "cloud" and inspired other cloud services to do similar things
* This might have help improve the foundation for remote workers to become more common.
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#7Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
I dunno. Before Dropbox I didn't really use a general purpose file store in the cloud for anything. I stored pictures on flickr and documents on Google Docs but nothing general purpose.
Now I store my entire home directory, all of my financial & legal documents, and quite a few other things (some in Dropbox some elsewhere). I dunno if that's transforming the world or not but it's made a pretty big difference to me personally.
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#8Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Have you bought any flash drives recently?
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#9Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Have you bought any flash drives recently?
Plenty, you can get killer USB3 flash drives now. USB3 really is the Dropbox moment for flash drives.
Re: Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
#10Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
rsync for normal people turns out to be a pretty big deal