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Steve's story - Google employee #13(googler13.blogspot.com)
440 points by paul 16y ago|89 comments
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by paul 16y ago
My point exactly :)
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by paul 16y ago
I don't see a price mentioned anywhere.
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by paul 16y ago
Given that I have finite time and money, I need good heuristics for deciding who to talk to. YC is one very good signal, but obviously not the only one.
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by paul 16y ago
He did say, "barring a previous exit", which excludes you.
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by paul 16y ago
YC is not an incubator, and nothing like it existed when Google and Facebook were started. As I mentioned in the parent comment, I think the closest match is Sean Parker, and he owns a very nice chunk of Facebook :) There's a very good chan
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by paul 16y ago
Yes, sorry I was unclear. There are always other investors.
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by paul 16y ago
Yes, avoiding bad investments is definitely good. However, I think people have a natural cognitive bias towards loss-aversion, which means that we need to be careful that we aren't focusing too much on that side of things (e.g., we should f
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by paul 16y ago
Since my goal was to learn without losing too much money, I generally made smaller investments. (and of course there are other people investing, so the total round could be $1M or more)
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by paul 16y ago
I still invest in non-YC companies, but there's a much higher bar (e.g. I already know the founders, or they have a lot of traction).
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by paul 16y ago
Then you have bad investors.
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by paul 16y ago
Not in my opinion :) If an established entrepreneur like Joshua Schachter starts a company, then I'm going to invest no matter what, but for everyone else... Watch the Facebook movie and imagine what would have happened without Sean Parker.
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by paul 16y ago
Identifying the winners is more important than identifying the losers. It's the investments you don't make that kill you.
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Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
227 points by paul 16y ago|85 comments
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by paul 16y ago
Clearly the money is coming from somewhere :) Using that advantage to invest in the future is the right way to build a long-term business. Focusing only on milking the current business is what leads a company to eventual disruption and coll
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by paul 16y ago
I've probably already said too much about the book ;)
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by paul 16y ago
Chrome and Android are both a huge success. Google takes a long-term view which doesn't require every product to immediately pay for itself, which is very smart. The long term value of owning these platforms is immense. Also, your notion th
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by paul 16y ago
Y Combinator and FriendFeed don't count, naturally. Somehow, they don't go in the "job" category the same way other jobs do.
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Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
325 points by paul 16y ago|100 comments
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by paul 16y ago
The whole rest of the article is him explaining how it works!
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by paul 16y ago
I think WiFi on airplanes is the solution to The Airplane Problem :)
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by paul 16y ago
I'm not trying to "save Android". I'm simply predicting that Google will continue developing and improving it because they are already shipping millions of Android devices and it has immense strategic value to them.
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by paul 16y ago
Web apps don't "have to use the cloud" either. (there are APIs for local storage) I don't dispute that the "web apps only" approach his more "pure". My prediction is simply that the Android approach will win out because users value function
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by paul 16y ago
Native apps still "use the cloud". The only substantial difference is the language and APIs used to develop them.
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by paul 16y ago
Oops. Fixed. Thanks.
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Paul Buchheit: The Cloud OS(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
100 points by paul 16y ago|41 comments
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by paul 16y ago
I want to make fun of the word "resourced", but can't decide how. Something about lame corporate speak. Now I'm off to resource the dog...
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by paul 16y ago
More amusing than anything. It's interesting to watch http://friendfeed.com/paul/1af77944/prediction-chromeos-will... turn into http://friendfeed.com/paul/950d810b/well-that-amusing-i-m-su... in a matter of hours.
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by paul 16y ago
It was a more plausible sounding strategy before the iPad came out. Now that it's clear that tablets are huge, and that Android will be Google's tablet OS, then you start to wonder why adding a keyboard sudden switches you to a different OS
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by paul 16y ago
Actually, the word I used was "prediction": http://friendfeed.com/paul/1af77944/prediction-chromeos-will... That I don't work at Google is not relevant. (though perhaps you are working on ChromeOS?)

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