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Paul Carr

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“If we are an employee or a contractor or even a user of these, I mean, users are part of the labor force for the big platforms now. Right. I think the vision is they have no obligations to us as labor and we have no or few options but to do what they say, to abide the terms of service. Until we're all used up.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Also, well, I hope to illustrate some of what it's like for someone who doesn't have a lot of connections and it's one wall after another. I mean, we've heard the story of the winners time and again and we don't hear about the overwhelming majority of Startups that fail. So that's part of the goal. Right? To show what it's like for the losers. And there's a lot of them. But also, you know, I was kind of hoping that somebody would say yes so that I could humiliate them.”
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“And I'm not really the expert. I'm just a humble reporter, not a genius investor, but it seemed like the feedback kind of changed just on a whim, you know, like they were just trying to think of something to say.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so let me. There were a couple. Startup weekend isn't really, I mean, you do have to pay a few, but it's not exactly the thing. There was one I went down in San Jose, and it was like, you know, a $30, $40 ticket. You would show up. There would be 100 other people there who'd paid to get. 20 seconds serve 30 seconds in front of a couple of ECs like a shark tank kind of situation and everybody just get up and pitch and you know people with clap or not and then the investors would I guess the the supposed value proposition is that they'd give you feedback that was supposed to be helpful but I'm not sure subjectively”
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“And you know, people complimented my Hutzpa, but I didn't get any meetings that way. Eventually I resorted to something which I haven't really seen a lot of reporting on and which should probably be illegal because it's illegal in Hollywood for scam aspiring actors by doing fee workshops. But there's a huge pay-to-pitch industry around here. Yes, there is. And so that's really where I ended up getting in front of people that supposedly could invest in my.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, once there was one down in Soma, and I forget the name of the place, but I waited outside and followed somebody in when the doors were open. You know, gave him my card. I had these business cards printed up that said future billionaire at AOL.com.”
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“That I went to an event there and saw that somebody, a VC office hours Written on the whiteboard, and so I just took a note of that and then showed up later for the office hours open to crash. And none of that, I mean, I had very bad luck.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I tried everything. I tried cold calling, cold emailing. I tried going to networking events and buttholing VCs. I went to Cougar Night out at the Rosewood Hotel. There were a lot of VCs there. You know, I just tried to have my ear to the ground. Where are people? Where can I get them in social situations? proved completely fruitless. I tried sneaking into buildings. There's an incubator in the Twitter building.”
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“I had a few, but only one made the book. The startup that I write about pitching in the book was called Laborize. It's a unique SaaS product, Strikes as a Service. The idea was you would hire us to organize a union drive at your competitor. Thus, slowing their operations, distracting their management, and demoralizing them.”
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“I was expecting to walk into some easy money. I mean, you know, I have an IV degree. I'm a white man. I was wearing a hoodie. I thought I had everything that I needed to have. You had a lot of things. There were stories coming out all the time about these ridiculous startups, which were getting funded. And I thought, well, how hard could it actually be?”
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“And the one with all the psychedelics and the counterculture engines. So I'd read all those. But actually, I would say that Evgen Marzov and Jaran Lonniars and their kind of polemics were more influential in how I approached the books.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't read Dent. Yeah, that was after I signed the contract. There was the one about the Google guys. That came out pretty early, the Amazon book, The Everything Stored Come out. It's Bretstone, yeah. The book about Apple, not the Isaacson book, but the sort of the main tone before it. I'm really flubbing the title. Crazier.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of freebies to be had And a lot of people hustling and pitching their startups, and everybody's looking for a better job, and that's where you get the gossip. So it was a great way in, not just as somebody sort of doing the entrepreneur thing, but also as a reporter, because that's where people talk when they're.”
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“To have the entrepreneurial experience as authentic as I could Concoct, it was the best way to cover all of the things that I wanted to cover about the tech industry if I'd taken a more conventional approach and followed one company or one entrepreneur, and I wouldn't have been able to hit all the points I wanted to hit. So I had to generate the narrative through my own actions. So I showed up and I decided, Well, how do I break in? I did what I thought. You know, anybody fresh off the boat here trying to sell their company would do, and I open up Eventbrite and meet up, and I just start going to parties. There's a lot of”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kill themselves in the line of their employment. So I was pretty disillusioned after that, kind of kicking around the apartment wondering what to do or if I had ever worked in journalism again. Actually, we'd moved to Brighton by that point The Silicon Beach, one of the 20 Silicon Beaches. You know what I mean?”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“AP, AFP, Reuters, BBC, New York Times, you know, and some would be very big selling, tens of thousands of dollars if you get the right shot. I mean, that's how that market works, but most were much, much less than that. With the acquisition, it was bought by Bill Gates company Corbus, which he then solely owned. I was expecting a big windfall. Here comes my budget, my great editorial budget. This is why I left newspapers. And of course, the opposite. First thing they want to do is cut the staff 50%. Right. And they have no plans to make people who are in dangerous positions safer, which I thought was pay them more. Or pay them more. They wanted to pay them less. I thought it was completely unethical. And even though they were going to sort of nudge me out of my editor-in-chief, I quit because I wanted to be able to speak openly about that because I think that.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was kind of our bread and butter, but we also had just, you know, people covering press conferences and red carpet events and, you know, anything you could think of And yeah, about 35,000 when I joined, I came on as editor-in-chief and my job was essentially to professionalize the operation, you know, because we had people from all over, but many of them English was their first language. Right.”
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“And the incompetent salesman, publisher in chief. So I kind of give up and went back to my old newspaper job in Portland at Willamette Week, which has a bunch of excellent reporters, and then rejoined my wife in London after a little while so she could finish her PhD. And there I joined another startup called Demotics. Doesn't exist anymore right about the time.”
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“Of it, I realized the only way I could actually monetize it was to sell ads or at least services to the people I was supposed to be covering critically. So there was a growing contradiction that I couldn't get around after about a year. And I also realized that although I had broken some stories and that had gotten picked up places like Mother Jones and Maddow's program, The only people that really cared were people in the military. I mean, the American public just isn't that interested. We don't have a draft anymore. So I burn out for a lot of reasons, but mostly it was overwork. I mean, it was trying to be the lead developer, you know, the lead content generation. What did I just say content generator? But that's okay. Cut that. All right. We're not going to cut that.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, when I thought that was really a good idea and still possible before I got educated, the idea was to put a name and face on the people who are profiting from war through defense contracts or the arms trade. There wasn't really a resource like that. You could go online and look at where federal contracts were going, but the data was really low quality. And actually, nobody still had a picture of who these people were. So that was the original mission. And then to combine that with investigative reporting. I did that for about a year and raised a little bit of money, but it burnt out pretty quickly.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the first time I left a newspaper job, I launched a one-man band investigative reporting operation back when crowdsourcing was the thing. It was called WarisBusiness.com. I would say the editorially, it was more successful than it was financially.”
2018-05-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, that's difficult. I grew up in a trailer park in eastern Washington State, tinkered with computers since I was a kid, then discovered that there was a whole world of arts and music and writing, and I made the foolish decision to become a journalist. Right, okay, right. And I got into the campus newspaper at my college and then went to Columbia Journalism School. I too. I've been globetrotting. So I hear. Yeah.”
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