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I was really touched that PG's greatest regret was something related to his family, and not YC or his larger professional career. As young founders we tend to f

I was really touched that PG's greatest regret was something related to his family, and not YC or his larger professional career. As young founders we tend to forget (or are expected to anyways) where our real long term priorities should be, and I hope PG's own regret reminds us to think about it from time to time.

jgrahamc 12y ago
Would you mind saying what it was or pointing to the m:s where I can watch because I can't sit through 10 minutes of that video.
- techtivist 12y ago
  The question is asked at around 10 minutes, and PG answer around 12 after Jessica's answer.
- falava 12y ago
  Question: 11:16 PG answer: 11:53
markokrajnc 12y ago
This "from time to time" should be daily. A very big part of happiness comes from relationships. Often you don't realize this and even make jokes like this one: Q: "Do you have time for private life in Silicon Valley?" A: "What's this?" and then LOL because you know you are doing too little for your personal life... If you would give only 15% more of your focused time to your spouse, kids, father, mother, friends... they would value it a lot! And it would be your long-term success! Are you ready to make such a small sacrifice for your "private life start-up"?
- AnimalMuppet 12y ago
  I wish I had really understood this 20 years ago. And I wasn't even in a startup. I just had things I wanted to work on that took time. Good things, useful things, but I put time/energy/thought into them that should have been spent on my kids.
  - EGreg 12y ago
    Those things are like your baby but when you have a real baby then thats your BABY! I think all people want to transcend their own death and for men, it's through creating useful things and for women the instinct is more for raising good children.
    - personjerry 12y ago
      I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but you may want to be careful with the generalizations.
      - EGreg 12y ago
        I usually throw them out there because if someone disagrees I may learn something. I imagine I gain more than I lose from that.
jtcchan 12y ago
yeah, it was even tough to watch him answer that. :(
serf 12y ago
I had a difficult time watching this video from a technical aspect, so to save others the trouble : PGs biggest regret has to do with not with business or entrepreneurship, but that he wishes that he had told his parent(s) to have more frequent colon cancer screenings. Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had.
- yeukhon 12y ago
  > Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had. This is also my regret. As much as I want to say doing more internship and building more personal projects and contributing to more open source projects are useful today, dedicate more time on studying the material instead of saying "no one will care if you know how to write quicksort" or "I will learn them in my job anyway" is absolutely a requirement. I also regret not able to do more internships...

jgrahamc 12y ago

Would you mind saying what it was or pointing to the m:s where I can watch because I can't sit through 10 minutes of that video.

techtivist 12y ago
The question is asked at around 10 minutes, and PG answer around 12 after Jessica's answer.
falava 12y ago
Question: 11:16 PG answer: 11:53

markokrajnc 12y ago

This "from time to time" should be daily. A very big part of happiness comes from relationships. Often you don't realize this and even make jokes like this one: Q: "Do you have time for private life in Silicon Valley?" A: "What's this?" and then LOL because you know you are doing too little for your personal life... If you would give only 15% more of your focused time to your spouse, kids, father, mother, friends... they would value it a lot! And it would be your long-term success! Are you ready to make such a small sacrifice for your "private life start-up"?

AnimalMuppet 12y ago
I wish I had really understood this 20 years ago. And I wasn't even in a startup. I just had things I wanted to work on that took time. Good things, useful things, but I put time/energy/thought into them that should have been spent on my kids.
- EGreg 12y ago
  Those things are like your baby but when you have a real baby then thats your BABY! I think all people want to transcend their own death and for men, it's through creating useful things and for women the instinct is more for raising good children.
  - personjerry 12y ago
    I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but you may want to be careful with the generalizations.
    - EGreg 12y ago
      I usually throw them out there because if someone disagrees I may learn something. I imagine I gain more than I lose from that.

jtcchan 12y ago

yeah, it was even tough to watch him answer that. :(

serf 12y ago

I had a difficult time watching this video from a technical aspect, so to save others the trouble : PGs biggest regret has to do with not with business or entrepreneurship, but that he wishes that he had told his parent(s) to have more frequent colon cancer screenings. Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had.

yeukhon 12y ago
> Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had. This is also my regret. As much as I want to say doing more internship and building more personal projects and contributing to more open source projects are useful today, dedicate more time on studying the material instead of saying "no one will care if you know how to write quicksort" or "I will learn them in my job anyway" is absolutely a requirement. I also regret not able to do more internships...