Paul Graham at Startup School 08
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as a staple pg talk, and it appears in lists of the best startup videos and tech talks.
What it is
Paul Graham speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to create a successful startup. His talk emphasizes being good, not just avoiding being evil, as a strategic advantage.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2010 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends JeanPierre · 2010-08 · on “Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview)”
Never heard him? Not to derive this into some "list of Paul Graham's speaks", but I really suggest to watch [this video] . A good speak, I think.
Recommends mindcrime · 2011-07 · on “Ask HN: What are the best videos to watch about building startups?”
[LINK] - (Steve Blank / Eric Ries - part 1) [LINK] - (Steve Blank / Eric Ries - part 2) [LINK] - (Steve Blank / Eric Ries - part 3) [LINK] - (Steve Blank at the Startup Lessons Learned conference) [LINK] - (Steve Blank: The Democratization of Entrepreneurship) [LINK] - (Alexander Osterwalder speaking @ Google) [LINK] - (Eric Ries speaking @ Google) [this video] - (pg at Startup School '08) [LINK] - (Peter Norvig at Startup School '08)
Recommends darushimo · 2013-08 · on “Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People”
I think you're right here, but the qualifier "all things being equal" can't be taken lightly. Rarely if never are "all things equal." I also don't think a shift in the market context is necessary. We already have a market place where people who feel tricked or duped will have a lower opinion of the company doing the duping. dark patterns have a bad edge to them too--very few of them, when noticed by the user, leave the user actually feeling good about how they were duped. This kinda reminds me of the talk PG gave at 2008 start up school titled "Be Good." ( [LINK] or [this video] ) He outlines many ways why it's not merely ethically appropriate to be good, but also a strategically superior approac
Recommends a_d · 2018-04 · on “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”
Bret Victor - Inventing on principle [LINK] Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity [LINK] Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different) [LINK] Robert Cialdini - On Influence [LINK] Peter Thiel - On Zero to One (Notes on Starts Ups or How to Build the Future) [LINK] Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More (Farnam Street podcast) [LINK] Josh Wolfe - On "This is who you are up against" podcast [LINK] Richard Feynman - Fun to Imagine [LINK] Paul Graham - Startup school (2008) [this video] James Burke - Connections (BBC documentary) <No link> Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the Atom (BBC) [LINK] Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Tho
Cites terrym · 2010-10 · on “The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future”
I remember watching a video of a talk you gave at startup school 08 and near the end during the Q&A, you said something to the effect of "we fund what people apply with, which usually ends up being some form of facebook or something to do with independent music". It seems that if the labels have positioned themselves as unfavorable toward startups to the point of making an anti-platform, that there would be demand for an independent, label-free music buying/selling experience for startups to work with. Yet the only thing I think of that comes close was the old version of thesixtyone's marketplace. Are the startups that apply to ycombinator in this area trying to build something outside of th
Cites jordigg · 2015-08 · on “Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium”
Yesterday I had PG's Startup School 08 video[1] on the background and he spoke about them just after being a cockroach and how companies succeed not just by not being evil but by being good. Really happy for them. Great team. [1] [this video]