Only the first one is a funny moment. Paul Graham, in the middle of all the AV trouble, says "What Talks Are Really Like". Greg McAdoo: To sell to enterprise,

Only the first one is a funny moment. Paul Graham, in the middle of all the AV trouble, says "What Talks Are Really Like". Greg McAdoo: To sell to enterprise, offer an ROI so powerful that a person who turns you down would be scared of getting fired. Jason Fried: "Cool wears off; useful never does. You will be using Post-It notes in 20 years." Paul Buchheit: 1) Was working at Intel, hanging out with some friends, when they started talking about the company's retirement plan. Got depressed and the incident encouraged him to move on. 2) Gets bored with something unless he's constantly releasing, and knows how to work with himself on that limitation. 3) Every company has corporate superstitions: things you have to do if you work there because they worked for the company earlier, or appeared to. Zuckerberg: 1) "When we got money, what we decided was that the best feature we could give to people is having their friends on there." (On increasing capacity vs adding new features) 2) "Values are worthless unless they're controversial. What are you willing to give up? We give up a lot for speed [of development]" (e.g., they maintain a single code base) Tony Hsieh: Core values should be commitable: are you willing to hire+fire based on them.