Y Combinator's Paul Graham sits down with Jason at LAUNCH Festival 2014
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people link it for Paul Graham's candid views on startups, Aaron Swartz, and investing selection.
What it is
A fireside chat at LAUNCH Festival 2014 where Paul Graham tells Jason Calacanis why he is handing Y Combinator's presidency to Sam Altman. He also shares startup advice drawn from nine years and 500+ startups.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2014 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Recommends asadlionpk · 2014-07 · on “Aaron Swartz and the YC Community”
I thought about that too when I watched that documentary. You should check out what pg thinks of Aaron in this recent video: [this video] at around 7:42
Recommends tjculbertson · 2014-10 · on “YC W15 emails are out”
I think it was in this video with Jcal [this video] . Not sure at what point in the video, but PG definitely gives up lots of great success tips, so worth watching it all. As far as the black swans, I could be wrong on this, but my understanding is that YC has maybe 10 partners all giving a grade on the apps coming in (apparently started this after they missed SendGrid). Im not sure if the 1400 alums initially flag or what, but even with the 10 partners grading, their odds of finding black swans get worse because black swans don't look like winners to most people - they are essentially counter intuitive, crazy ideas that don't appeal to the majority in the beginning (or maybe the founders are not
Recommends tim333 · 2016-03 · on “I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA”
I can't answer that but pg talking about what may have been Sendgrid was quite interesting along those lines [this video]
Cites vonklaus · 2015-11 · on “Wall Street Talent Is Moving to Silicon Valley”
No way can I parse 10 hours of PG video. Just rewatched the Calacanis interview and some of Charlie Rose. I vividly remember him speaking about the study, but can't remember if it was an interview or just a speaking engagement (possibly Pycon 08). Here is him talking about MBA's whipping their meek rent-a-programmers during the interview[0] which is the best I can do. If anyone remembers what video it is in, or better yet, actually knows the (i believe harvard business school) study, would be super interested. [0] [this video]