To temper some of the nit picks, just wanted to say this lecture felt insightful and fun to watch. I hope YC continues this trend of investing effort in shareab

To temper some of the nit picks, just wanted to say this lecture felt insightful and fun to watch. I hope YC continues this trend of investing effort in shareable advice content in the spirit of pg's essays. This is the first time a lot of the YC flavor of startup how-to material has been presented in a lecture video format[1]. I suspect much of the long-term audience of these lectures wouldn't have come across pg's essays, Blake Masters' Peter Thiel startup notes or Dustin Moskovitz's excellent Medium posts before. Maybe some lecture watchers were allergic to long-form articles, or maybe some would rather receive a weekly email with videos. Myself, I consume this sort of material on my walk to work, either text-to-speeching essays or listening to lectures. The video lecture format was especially fun, I watched it full screen on the TV while eating an enchilada and poking my fiancee about points she might find relevant to her side project. How often do you get to consume this sort of content like that? Having read pg's essays[2], I still had a number of "aha!" moments from Sam's slides and hearing his presentation. And hearing Dustin describe in his low-key tone why you should be employee 1,000 at an obviously successful startup rather than start your own, and backing it up with charts and photo-jokes about the elephant in the room was just entertaining. Seeing "this is how we'll teach you to do this thing. Here's an expert on why not to do this thing." is not always the type of juxtaposition you get with standalone online essays. Looking forward to the next lecture. I'd say it's well worth the time and opportunity cost of putting this all together, so thanks all involved. [1]: Yes, some Lean Startup™ and Principles of Entrepreneurship™ flavored material has been presented in lecture format before, but not YC™ lensed AFAIK. [2]: Okay, I skipped the early seemingly pure-Lisp-focused ones. Though like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance isn't about a long motorcycle trip, and maybe pg's Lisp essays are not really all about writing Lisp?