TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Claire also opened up about how she has grown as a leader, learned to listen to feedback from her team, and improved the culture at Aunt Flow. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. These are my three favorite ideas from the book. Most disruptive companies are better, faster, and cheaper versions of incumbents’ products. I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Continuations

MAY 29, 2020

By reducing the network effect lock in of the incumbents. For more thoughts on that I have an entire book which you can find at World After Capital. (*) It turns out that you can achieve all three if you start with quality but only if you build a culture of quality. In other words, require Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. There was kind of a culture of glorifying that a little bit, where everybody’s wearing company swag, and then it becomes a thing that everybody wants. I was like, “Oh, interesting, and I tried to learn to program, and I failed.”

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Your values are tested only when the decisions are tough, like losing money, hurting your brand, firing a highly-productive employee who isn’t a culture-fit, or a wonderful culture-fit who isn’t able to be productive.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. Tyler: But are the roots of this stasis quite general and quite cultural? It essentially does a search. And it sort of tries to find the optimal kind of path through that.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So for a long time, it was brand, culture, and what I call boldness, which is is the organization taking on enough risk? So when I had culture on my list, I spent 300 hours in the culture code deck at HubSpot. I'm going to do everything I can to learn everything they can to try and get culture to be a thing at HubSpot.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called “Catastrophic Care.” ” What’s interesting about the book is David’s an outsider. There’s a culture in Silicon Valley that moves fast and breaks things, right? He runs the Game Show Network.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [02:14] – I basically just block all that day Wednesday so no one can book a meeting there. I think what helped a lot of introverts, I don’t know about you guys, is when that lady wrote that, what was her name, wrote that book. Craig Cannon [03:56] – I felt that after that book came out.

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