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Anyone know if YC's recordings of the '07 startup school talks are online?

3 points by Sam_Odio 20y ago

waleedka 20y ago
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ycombinator-StartupSchool http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ycombinator-StartupSchool
- Sam_Odio 20y ago
  Awesome. I'll definitely download these. I was actually looking for the videos though - they had a camcorder set up in the back. I'm thinking they might've not released it...
  - vlad 20y ago
    Justin.TV has them :) But it's very spotty. Paul Graham's talk is available on Video I believe, on Google. Maybe I'm thinking of his last year's talk.
- SwellJoe 20y ago
  The hits: Buchheit Levchin Partovi brothers Graham McAdoo Recent founders panel (just the end bit where Alexis beautifully zings Paul, but you need to see the slides...I dunno if they're available) The misses (misses because I expected a lot more from these guys, not necessarily because these were worse than the rest of the non-hits--both really smart guys with a lot of success under their belt): Kapor (should have been half an hour, like everyone else) Zuckerberg (age discrimination isn't really something useful to learn, as we all probably have enough of that built right in) Though, I might say that if you do watch one of the misses, you need to watch the other. They're like Olbermann and O'Reilly squaring off on issues like hiring, firing, employee selection, etc. By the time you suffer through both talks you might have a balanced view. From the 06 batch I vividly remember Kraus, Graham, and Fletcher being fantastic. Kraus and Fletcher are always worth listening to.
  - gyro_robo 20y ago
    Max Levchin is like the Energizer Bunny. See show #2 on NerdTV: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ He said when he's not doing a start-up he lays on the couch morose, whereas he's happy and enjoying life when he IS doing a start-up. I infer that the secret of success is to link pleasure to working on your start-up and pain to NOT doing it. If your start-up feels like a grind then it's doomed. Fortunately, you can re-program your emotional responses via various techniques. You pretty much want to do that regardless so that if you do strike it rich, you don't feel useless and indolent for the rest of your life afterward. The continued success stories are the people who were REALLY into what they did. For example, Bill Gates could have retired long ago; Michael Jordan didn't win one championship and decide that was all he wanted; Steve Jobs kept on going while Steve Wozniak checked out, relaxed, and got fat. (I love Woz, I just think if you're possibly the world's best at what you do, abruptly stopping can't be very fulfilling, even though I understand he did many other worthwhile things like teaching kids.)
    - akkartik 20y ago
      Reminds me of Sherlock holmes and his bouts of lethargy and cocaine-use between cases.

3 points by Sam_Odio 20y ago

waleedka 20y ago

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ycombinator-StartupSchool http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ycombinator-StartupSchool

Sam_Odio 20y ago
Awesome. I'll definitely download these. I was actually looking for the videos though - they had a camcorder set up in the back. I'm thinking they might've not released it...
- vlad 20y ago
  Justin.TV has them :) But it's very spotty. Paul Graham's talk is available on Video I believe, on Google. Maybe I'm thinking of his last year's talk.
SwellJoe 20y ago
The hits: Buchheit Levchin Partovi brothers Graham McAdoo Recent founders panel (just the end bit where Alexis beautifully zings Paul, but you need to see the slides...I dunno if they're available) The misses (misses because I expected a lot more from these guys, not necessarily because these were worse than the rest of the non-hits--both really smart guys with a lot of success under their belt): Kapor (should have been half an hour, like everyone else) Zuckerberg (age discrimination isn't really something useful to learn, as we all probably have enough of that built right in) Though, I might say that if you do watch one of the misses, you need to watch the other. They're like Olbermann and O'Reilly squaring off on issues like hiring, firing, employee selection, etc. By the time you suffer through both talks you might have a balanced view. From the 06 batch I vividly remember Kraus, Graham, and Fletcher being fantastic. Kraus and Fletcher are always worth listening to.
- gyro_robo 20y ago
  Max Levchin is like the Energizer Bunny. See show #2 on NerdTV: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ He said when he's not doing a start-up he lays on the couch morose, whereas he's happy and enjoying life when he IS doing a start-up. I infer that the secret of success is to link pleasure to working on your start-up and pain to NOT doing it. If your start-up feels like a grind then it's doomed. Fortunately, you can re-program your emotional responses via various techniques. You pretty much want to do that regardless so that if you do strike it rich, you don't feel useless and indolent for the rest of your life afterward. The continued success stories are the people who were REALLY into what they did. For example, Bill Gates could have retired long ago; Michael Jordan didn't win one championship and decide that was all he wanted; Steve Jobs kept on going while Steve Wozniak checked out, relaxed, and got fat. (I love Woz, I just think if you're possibly the world's best at what you do, abruptly stopping can't be very fulfilling, even though I understand he did many other worthwhile things like teaching kids.)
  - akkartik 20y ago
    Reminds me of Sherlock holmes and his bouts of lethargy and cocaine-use between cases.