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  1. “The grand vision for Triple Byte is to make the current hiring process just seem outdated five years from now. And by that I mean we genuinely believe that the data we're gathering by screening thousands of engineers is improving our process and making us better at predicting who's going to be a good hire for a particular company than that company could ever do themselves or any single company could do themselves. And so five years from now, the grand vision would be to think about like running your own hiring process versus just using Triple Byte as being as outdated as hiring engineers to build a database from scratch versus just using MySQL or Postgres.”

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  2. “I would say that it's not important to work with people that you like. I think this is one mistake that people make is that they, in startups, or maybe just in general, when you are in a position to hire people, you optimize for people that you think you will just like being around. And one, humans are very bad at actually predicting that from a job interview. And two, you want to be around people who are just really good at what they do more so than whether you like them personally or not. Because over time, and in particular in startups when you're working really, really hard, you just end up caring more about someone's competency than you do their personality and within reason. Most founders I speak to think it's really important to optimize for culture fit and likability and making sure you're only working with people that you personally like that's seen as a perk of working on a startup. And I think it's not true.”

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  3. “I would actually say SlateStar Codex. I've only gotten into reading the archives recently-ish. One of our first engineer here, Buck, is very into the rationalist community. Slate Sar Codex is a fantastic blog. He writes very clearly and he writes, he has interesting insights onto key issues. And so I would highly recommend that people read that.”

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  4. “I would have to say Paul Graham on this one. I spent so many years working with him prior to that. He was the mentor for our first startup. And how it all came about pretty randomly, actually. I was Googling. This is back in 2006 now while we were working on our startup in London and having a miserable time of it. I Googled mistakes that startups make and came across a poor Graham essay, 18 mistakes that kill startups, read through them, agreed that I was making all of them and decided that I should meet him.”

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  5. “I just think, I mean, Apple remains an incredibly unique company and seeing, experiencing even for a day what it's like to be the CEO of the largest corporation in the world would be a really interesting insight”

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  6. “That's the dream, right? Actually, I mean, to backtrack here and answer your question before, that's also how you're a good seed stage investor is to just generally enjoy meeting and helping people without expecting anything in return. That just helps a lot.”

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  7. “Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman. Richard Feynman's autobiography. And why? Because I think it's just the best insight into how you get really good at something you love to do. The book just shows you how he was thinking about physics all of the time. And it didn't feel like work for him. It was just kind of what it was just what his brain wanted to be doing all of the time. And so I think it just a great example. That's how you do great work is to find something that you just naturally are thinking about a lot. And it's a really great insight into how someone like that operates.”

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  8. “You raise like $10 million before you've kind of gone through that pain, now you're under pressure to hire people and you might not have a clear sense of exactly who you need because every, you know, you keep using sales as an example. Every product is slightly different and requires a slightly different personality or tact or approach to sell it. And you can really only understand the nuance of that by having gone through the pain yourself somewhat, right? And then the second thing is this is maybe more for first time founders managing people is really, really hard and sucks most of the time. So if you have no experience of that and you are both under stress of trying to find product market fit while hiring a bunch of people and trying to figure out management for the first time, that's just like a terrible place to be. You don't want to have both of those pressures at the same time. You either want to be focused with a smallest possible team on finding product market fit or you want to be realize you have product market fit and just be in full-on growing, scaling the team and making”

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  9. “Well, here's okay. So that's a great question. So, this is why raising VC money too early is a dangerous thing, right? Once you raise an institution around and by institution around, I mean effectively a VC is on your board checking in on you once a month, you want to be hiring because you feel so overworked from all the things that need to get done and you have a very crisp idea in your head of who you would hire, what they need to be good at, and not just an intellectual picture of, oh, I want a salesperson that can sell well. You need to have like a visceral sense of I've been selling this product myself for the last six months. I know exactly what all the complaints are when I try and pitch a VP of engineering on the product and I can tell when I interview someone if they're going to be able to stand up to that VP of engineering or not, right? And I think it's just very hard to do until you felt that stress and pressure yourself. And so if you raise around prematurely.”

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  10. “CEO of Color Genomics. I met him in sort of late 2009 when he was just getting started as an angel investor. And he just worked really hard at meeting lots of founders, like providing them help, whether he invested them or not, and just became sort of a back channel in sort of when people were raising their funding rounds, they just mentioned him as someone that, oh, you really want to talk to ELAD. He helped me out a bunch, even though he didn't invest. And now you look at his portfolio over the last five, six, seven years. He's in almost every exciting startup, Airbnb, Stripe, Square. And that just comes from Pinterest. And that just comes from hard work.”

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  11. “Honestly, this is not to be facetious, but you just have to work really, really hard. Like a seed stage investor is really about optimizing the top of your funnel in the sense of there are only of the hundreds of deals that might be available, a hundred of potential investments that year, only a few of them are going to go on and be meaningful. And your job is to sort of pick and get into those deals, right? And so step one is just having those founders know that you exist and come to you. And the way that that happens is by just working really, really hard for lots of founders, whether you've invested in them or not, and generating word of mouth where next time someone's raising a funding round that you come up in conversation as someone that you want to work with. And I can think of great examples of this. An angel investor who doesn't get a lot of sort of publicity per se, Elad Gill, who's sort of former VP of Twitter, now the founder of”

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  12. “Some people do just have that empathy without needing to go through the process, right? Like if you look at Peter Fenton's had a tremendously successful career benchmark without sort of being an operator himself and founders that have worked with him will say he has deep empathy for the process and the struggle. And so if you can find people like that, that's great. But most of those people got that empathy through going through the process themselves.”

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  13. “I'm a pretty strong believer that operational experience is pretty important to having in investors. And the reason is, and I think this is another thing that made sort of Paul and sort of Jessica great founders of YC or great investors of Y Comnature is that they had deep empathy for founders. They understood how difficult and how stressful starting a company is. And even if you don't have, I don't think you need to have great success as an operator to be a good investor, but I think you need to have deep empathy for how difficult it is for founders and how sort of pressurized that they are all the time. And I think that's something that's difficult to have when you sort of haven't been through a startup yourself. So I think it's a fair proxy for that empathy to look for the sort of the operational track record of an investor. In lieu of that, then I think you want to look at their track record as an investor and get references from founders they've worked on with in the past because”

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  14. “Was how do we make sure we don't miss out on good companies? That's why the batches kept growing because we just got more applications from across the world from really great founders. And we didn't want to miss any of them. So the thought process was make sure we identify all the good ones. Let's fund them. And then let's figure out, you know, if we end up funding 50”

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  15. “And that was sort of like maybe the true north of Waikomata was this idea of if we could fund hundreds and hundreds of companies, some of them would grow to be really large. Obviously, majority of them wouldn't, but the ones that wouldn't could become sort of still add value to that network, right? Like maybe they get acquired by the other companies, maybe the founders go and work at the successful ones. Maybe they buy and sell products from each other. It really was an exciting vision. And so everything about YC was orientated by the more companies that are funded, at least the more good companies that are funded, the more valuable that sort of, the closer you get to that vision. So the growth of YC was defined as of the, you know, of the applicants every cycle, we want to make sure that we're funding all the good ones. Like we never want to turn away a great company or really promising company because we didn't have capacity to do it. So that was sort of how we thought about YC internally.”

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  16. “One of the most compelling high level thoughts that Paul shared with me that got me really excited about joining YC was he explained it in terms of how he thought corporations or just big companies would be structured in the future. And he genuinely believed that the optimal structure for a giant corporation is one that more like a holding company that's composed up of lots of more autonomous units are each doing well and each of those units has operational control and is making its own decisions but it has an infrastructure of a larger company behind it and and that that was always sort of the a really exciting way of thinking about YC that I just hadn't occurred to me before I started talking to poor right like he he viewed it as Y company and this is even back in 2010 that Y communitar had the potential to become this like gigantic entity composed of lots of smaller companies within it and”

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  17. “So the weekly 10% was a little, I would be a little bit of a trickier metric for YC because we won the actions we took were really measurable on a weekly basis, which is incidentally the big, one of the big differences between being a founder or operator versus being an investor is as an investor, you do lots of things, but ultimately your feedback loop is several years long, right? Like you can try and make it shorter by looking at proxies such as of your investments that you made this year, how many of them go on and raise their next round of funding. And for YC, that was condensed. You know, you have a three-month program. And so you're looking at how many of the companies go on and raise funding three, like three months after YC funded them. For most investors, that's more on the order of at least two years, often like three, four, five years, right? So harder to measure your growth rate.”

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  18. “Yep, I mean, I think maybe operationally having employees also can make it makes everything feel a little bit more serious because now you have responsibilities and people that you've convinced to join your endeavor. But ultimately, I think just deep down in your gut, for most founders, the point at which a startup really starts to sort of just like feel like a genuine real thing is when you get that first set of like real users and you have real customers using the product. The growth rate is obviously something that's super important, but it's less so than just being able to identify a clear set of people who actually want the thing and are using it”

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  19. “C did is kind of create that realness for you, right? You had suddenly these dinners that you had to come to every week. You had this pay group that were asking how much progress you were making. And suddenly it makes the thing feel real. And what's surprising is just how far you can actually go in a startup for it actually still feels real. Like funding is not a prerequisite of your startup feeling real. You can raise funding, but still not really feel like have a company. The only moment you feel like you have a real company is when you have a clear set of users and that number of users is growing. Until then, everything's kind of make-believe.”

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  20. “So this is in some ways, this is my favorite part about startups is essentially just how ordinary and mundane a startup looks like when it is just two or three people, right? Like people didn't realize that at that stage a startup really looks like a couple of people working out of an apartment with nothing other than just a shared idea that they're hoping maybe something someday. And I think this was the magic of why Combinator is that it's not uncommon to see people who have successful careers at like a company like Google or a Facebook who then want to sort of jump into a startup, but they don't realize that an early stage startup comes without any infrastructure. And frankly, just doesn't feel real. Like what most people don't get is that an early stage startup doesn't feel real. Like you have no boss, you have no office with lots of people in it. Like if you just don't do anything for a day, no one's tapping on your shoulder saying, hey, how come this report didn't get done? And what?”

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  21. “Operationally, you need to be focused on your company above all else and not be worried about competitors, but you need to know enough about what your competitors are doing to seem like, or, you know, to generally actually have domain expertise and talk credibly about the market you're operating in.”

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  22. “There are a few tensions in sort of general startup advice that exist. And I think this is one of them where it absolutely does make sense to stay focused and you are just far more likely to not succeed because you make a mistake internally, right? Like either you build the wrong product, you don't pay enough attention to your users, you hire the wrong people, or all of these things are far more likely to sort of kill you than a competitor coming out of nowhere. But I do think there are reasons why being aware of what your competitors are doing is important, right? And it's a little bit more subtle because, for example, often startups need funding and you need to hire the best people and you need to come across as understanding your market deeply and debate and displaying deep domain expertise for achieving both of those things. And if you have no idea what your competitors are doing, it's hard to credibly claim that you have domain expertise, right? So I think you...”

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  23. “Presents externally that things are going fantastically. And so as a founder, you don't often realize this, that everyone startup at pretty much every stage has some existential mortal threat to it. And the reason you're just not aware is because the founders never present that externally, right? So I think Paul, Graham, and Jessica asked me this three months into the same question, three months into working at YC, and I told them, yeah, I thought it was just our startup that was screwed. And it was somewhat amazing to see that every startup is actually screwed.”

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  24. “Okay, the most surprising thing. So actually, what it was, I remember when I first started doing office hours with the companies, which is where companies and partners will lend time with each other companies, so talking through their problems and issues and just figuring out a plan of action for them. And I remember doing my first sort of office hours and thinking, wow, like all of these companies have really serious problems. I could think of a reason why each of these companies is likely to not be around next month. Like that's sort of how intense it was. And that was really eye-opening for me because frankly, when we were running our startup, it felt to me like we were the only ones that were just failing miserably and that, you know, who knew if we were going to be around next month or not. But everyone else seemed to be doing fantastically well. And what I realized is that actually what happens is no matter how problematic or screwed your startup is, everyone all”

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  25. “Compelling vision of what Y Combinator could become and sort of all the talks were about how do we make it move in that direction.”

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  26. “I mean, yeah, to put it in context, they definitely had a lot of stature back then. It was just within a smaller community. So to me, to trace it back, when we first applied to Y Combinator, this is my cousin and I, we started our first company, Corvir Taga, we didn't know who Paul Graham was. At that time, he had a lot of stature within the programming community and specifically the Lisp programming community. But we only knew about him as this person who wrote these really insightful essays online. But when we came to those first few dinners in 2007, it was already kind of clear that Paul and Jessica were, you know, there were a big deal within the Y company to community. And I think working alongside them, I was kind of aware that I was really lucky to be able to work with both of them, but it never sort of felt odd or strange per se because mostly what we were focused on was just how does YC grow, like the focus was very inwards on Paul always had a really”

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  27. “As they were coming up to their vesting period at Autodesk, and Triple Byte was the idea that we were most excited about. So we got the ball rolling, launched it, and then actually went through the Y combinator program itself last summer and fast forward a year and here we are.”

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  28. “To just kind of decide what my next steps would be. And during that time, caught up with Paul, Graham and Jessica Livingston, the founders of Y Combinator, who mentioned that they had plans to start expanding the scope of YC, which I found really interesting. And so in January 2010, I joined Y Comnator as a venture partner, which was a fancy term for effectively the first employee, and found it just like a fascinating place to be and four or five months later I joined officially as the first non-founding partner at Y Combinator and stayed there for almost four years. And during that time worked with a lot of founders, invest in a bunch of companies and met my future co-founders, Armand and Guillaume, who had gone through the program with SocialCam, video sharing app that was acquired by Autodesk. And the three of us started to hang out, just talking about ideas.”

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  29. “Okay, great. So here's sort of the chain of events here. So I'm originally from England, as you can probably tell. And during college, I had started working on what was a side project at a time, which was to just launch a simple Craigslist type service for students at our university to buy and sell things to each other. And that became a very interesting project. It grew. We sort of had a small team of people working on it. So I thought maybe we'd take a look at rolling that out to other universities in the country. It started getting a little bit attraction. We then applied to Y Combinator after reading a few poor Gray essays online. That brought me out to Silicon Valley to go through the Y Combinator program in 2007. We loved being out here. We stayed out here. We morphed the idea into e-commerce software, which was acquired a year and a half later by a company called Live Current Media. I worked at LiveCurrent Media for a year and then actually took a month or so.”

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