Lessons for Founders

Old habits die hard. At YC I would give a lot of advice to founders, so it’s hard not to offer a few thoughts for anyone building a venture-backed silicon valley company.

First: it is your responsibility to have a direct conversation with your customers, constituents, potential employees—whoever. Even if it’s personally taxing,... See more

when I was earlier in my career I was searching for the answers or the way to do things - the binary - and I think anyone that's been doing this for a while learns that it's all nuanced. Silicon Valley has tended so far towards optimizing for graphs and metrics and if we can reel it back in a little bit at least as just one company I think that

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