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Do you think YC would have been interested in something like Minecraft back in its infancy if you saw how fast user base was growing? Does YC have any interest at all in startups (if you can call them that) whose main product is a video game of some sort?
What's the most impactful skill people should learn in their 20s?
How to communicate well. How to think for yourself (and especially, what problems are worth solving that others are ignoring). How to build stuff (and especially, how to get things done instead of just talking about getting things done). How to learn new things quickly.
Do you think YC would have been interested in something like Minecraft back in its infancy if you saw how fast user base was growing? Does YC have any interest at all in startups (if you can call them that) whose main product is a video game of some sort?
Yes and yes.
Would you expect the game to be very different in some way from traditional games, or does genre/mechanic not really matter as long as a there's a small, passionate group of users growing quickly?
In management school there's a lot of flexibility regarding the nature of a leader. In your experience grooming founders, what has been the most efficient style of leadership?
If you can figure out what to do, make people care, and communicate clearly, and not be a jerk, you'll be a long way towards being a good leader.
What kind of security companies do you look out for? How much importance do you place on technical certifications when it comes to founders in security?
Security is one of the areas we're most interested in, but we leave it to founders to show us the most promising sub-areas. We don't care about technical certifications. I forget which company it was, but some large tech company found that the only negative predictor of success for its employees was technical certifications...
Are there any certain personalities you think excel the most in founding security startups?
Any news on what the next lab at YCR will be about?
What do you think about Social Media Apps that do not use traditional "follow my profile" as a way to share photos, videos and texts?
Do you believe that dividing the profit received from the ads, a model similar to YouTube -unlike Instagram, Facebook and Twitter where the company takes all; can be used to attract content creators in direct competition with these tools already established in the market ?
This could be considered a Disruptive Innovation?
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