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If you're trying to decide which to watch, I recommend: * Lindenbaumm on Heroku and creating a great developer experience. * Ashton Kutcher with the story of
by pamelafox 15y ago
If you're trying to decide which to watch, I recommend:
* Lindenbaumm on Heroku and creating a great developer experience.
* Ashton Kutcher with the story of Carl Fischer.
* Matt Mullenweg on the journey of making WordPress.
* The office hours with Paul Graham (if that's there). Interesting to see the questions he asks the startups.
Some of the talks were actually Q&As, which aren't my favorite format. Talks are much more compelling to watch because (ideally) the speaker tells a story and each part adds to the story. Q&As may have a few good answers or quotes sprinkled throughout, but most of the content is not so useful.
The VC talks were also not as interesting to me, as they seemed mostly to recap information that most of us here probably know (like the examples of entepreneurs in Conway's talk).
It was really cool to see the people behind the startups -- its easy to forget that products like WordPress and Dropbox were just nuggets in someone's head at some point.
- timjahn 15y agoI like talks if they're compelling stories, but in my experience, most aren't. They're usually canned same-old-crap stuff. Q+A on the other hand, love those!
- jc4p 15y agoMy problem with Q+A sessions is that the ones that are from people in the audience to presenters (like the last portion of Ashton Kutcher's video) I have no clue what the audience members are asking since they don't have microphones.