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(Curator's comment: This is referring to YouTube’s decision to offer YouTube Red, a subscription service for ad-free experience.) They’re getting their highest value users, which are the people that the advertisers actually want to reach to not see the ads and to do brand advertising you need enormous scale, I mean Facebook and YouTube are the only... See more

On day one of Improv 101 they’ll tell you not to ask questions in a scene because it puts undue pressure on your partner. “Hey, what are you doing?” “Uhh I’m making things up in an improv scene.” Similarly, refusing to take the spotlight in a conversation may seem generous, but in fact can burden the other person to keep the show going. (“What’s... See more

[10:08] Every morning, I plan something that I will enjoy, so that's usually a slow breakfast by myself for me. But whatever it is, I know that there is going to be planning around this time, this sacred time in the morning that might even be 15 minutes or five minutes, but there is this time, so anything that I will start to schedule in will be... See more

…the path to establishing that kind of persistence is not linear, there's a step change. There's a period when a company can establish that, and that window often closes, if you will. It's the kind of business that you're so familiar with. It's in the earlier stage.

…the one thing to him that really sets PayPal alumni apart from other people in the ecosystem is they learned at PayPal both willingness and ability to iterate really quickly with a product. Put a product out there that is very far from finished and iterate like mad on it based on true market feedback. He says “not BS-ing themselves about what the... See more

You can build a very very powerful force in your business model and to other people’s business models if you are the first step in dishing out who gets the attention after you.