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Founders and entrepreneurs are sharing valuable insights and lessons learned from their experiences building successful startups. Key takeaways include the importance of being relentlessly resourceful, working with people you're close to, and hiring high-agency individuals who can solve problems without being asked. Additionally, many emphasize the need to get to know your users well, be stubborn on vision but flexible on details, and focus on making your product remarkable.

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Social topic influence jeff bezos #2, elon musk #481, $googl 7.32%, money 7.32%, ceo #1196, philosophy 7.32%, build a 4.88%, linkedin 4.88%, if you 4.88%, the world XXXX%

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Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) YELP INC. (YELP) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) ServiceNow Inc (NOW) Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)

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"Jeff Bezos on his favorite interview question When I interview people I ask them to give me an example of something they've invented. And I always point out it doesn't have to be something that you actually took to the patent office. It could be a metric that you invented and followed carefully. It could be a business process that you invented. You want to select people who like to invent their way out of boxes. A lot of people will immediately jump to what Jeff calls an either or solution (e.g. We can do A or B.). But as Jeff explains: The right question is how can we do A and B What"
X Link 2025-11-27T16:59Z 115.3K followers, 1.8M engagements

"Watch the full interview with Elon Musk on the @nikhilkamathcio podcast here:"
X Link 2025-12-01T12:49Z 115.3K followers, 540.7K engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg: Start off trying to make something cool not build a company. In 2005 a XX year old Mark Zuckerberg offered his former classmates the following advice: One cool characteristic of a lot of the companies that end up being really successful Is that they started off as someone trying to make something cool and not someone trying to make a company. He gives Google Yahoo and eBay as examplesthough he admits Amazon was a little more calculated. As Mark explains the same was true of Facebook: When it just got started what I thought was the most interesting thing was just to be able to"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:52Z 115.3K followers, 51.9K engagements

"Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: The great founders are frugal I can always tell when were dealing with a proper founder by how they are spending their money. Whenever I go to startups that have beautiful offices and really nice chairs I cringe The great founders are frugal. They understand that the money needs to be used precisely for certain areas. Many of the most successful founders begin with no salary at all If youre not prepared to live that you dont really understand what being a founder is like. Video Source: @StartupGrind"
X Link 2024-07-13T11:50Z 115K followers, 115K engagements

"Peter Thiel on how to identify great talent Peter Thiel is famous for discovering undervalued talent throughout his career. The most well-known example is PayPal where he recruited people who went on to start companies like YouTube LinkedIn Yelp Affirm and Yammer. But he also recruited Alex Karp his former classmate at Stanford Law School to co-found Palantir with him 2003. Tyler Cowen asks Thiel what traits he looks for in undiscovered talent that everyone else overlooks. Thiel replies: Its very difficult to reduce it to any single trait. A lot of what youre looking for are these almost"
X Link 2025-11-28T12:48Z 115.1K followers, 28.9K engagements

"Google founder Larry Page explains how he decides what to work on When asked about his philosophy and only working on 10x ideas Page invokes the idea of additionality from economics: It means doing something that wouldnt happen unless youre actually doing it. I think the more you can do things like that the bigger impact you can have. And thats about doing things people might not think are possible. Page believes technology is a huge enabler of this impact: Ive been amazed The more you learn about technology the more you learn whats possible. And so for me I just tried to focus on: What is"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:59Z 115.1K followers, 110.2K engagements

"Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on living your product and why slow growth can be invaluable When youre starting a company it never goes at the pace you want You start it and you imagine everythings going to be linear and you think everyones going to care. And no one cares. Our first hundred users I was related to. Or Joe Gebbia was related to. However as Brian explains this slow growth in the beginning made Airbnb a better company: It actually turned out to be really good that we were so unpopular in the very beginning because I had the opportunity to meet every one of our early customers. I"
X Link 2025-12-01T16:58Z 115.2K followers, 33.8K engagements

"Jeff Bezos on the X principles that differentiated Amazon from other companies The thing that connects everything that Amazon does our #1 conviction philosophy and principle is customer obsession as opposed to competitor obsession. We are always focused on the customer working backwards from the customers needs and developing new skills internally so that we can satisfy what we perceive to be future customer needs. Jeff Bezos continues: It seems like were in a bunch of different businesses. We have Amazon Web Services which is completely different from our Amazon Prime business or Amazon"
X Link 2025-12-02T12:51Z 115.1K followers, 31.8K engagements

"Jensen Huang: The best career advice I got was from a gardener Very few people know this but I dont wear a watch Nvidia founder Jensen Huang begins. And the reason I dont wear a watch is because now is the most important time. Just dedicate yourself to now. Jensen explains by telling a story: The best career advice I got was from a gardener. I was on a family trip in Kyoto and we went to the temple that had the largest moss collection in the world . . . All of the moss is perfect and every species of the worlds moss is there. It was a hot summer day anybody whos been to Kyoto knows how"
X Link 2025-10-21T11:50Z 115.2K followers, 215.5K engagements

"NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang: "We never talk about market share We never talk about market share in our company Why are you fighting people for market share The whole concept of market share says theres a whole bunch of other people doing the same thing. And if theyre doing the same thing why are we doing it Why am I squandering the lives of these incredibly talented people to do something that has already been done Instead Jensen believes in building your company around doing something that has never been done before. Sometimes this means walking away from commodity work: That demonstrates"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:58Z 115.2K followers, 131.6K engagements

"Keith Rabois explains why Founders Fund doesnt invest in remote startups We have a view at Founders Fund that we will not fund a company that doesnt work in person. The reason why is because if youre going to build a company on undiscovered talent the way you learn a craft is by osmosis. Osmosis and unstructured learning does not work remotely. So you have to hire very experienced people and have a linear roadmap that lets you predict what kind of talent you need. But thats pretty rare. Keith admits that its not impossible to do something like X in XX companies have the resources or"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:58Z 115.2K followers, 40.1K engagements

"Telegram founder Pavel Durov on what separates A Players from B Players I can recall a few instances in my career where firing an engineer actually resulted in an increase in productivity Telegram founder Pavel Durov begins. He gives an example of two Android engineers building an app that are having a hard time hitting deadlines: You think I probably have to hire a third engineer. But then you notice that one of the engineers is really weird falling behind schedule complaining not assuming responsibility and you ask What if I just fired this person Then you fire this person and in a few"
X Link 2025-10-20T11:50Z 115.3K followers, 704.8K engagements

"Sam Altman: The best founders are generalists all the way through Sam continues: Maybe youre a specialist in a particular technology that you develop But when you transition from building a product to building a company you have to specialize in generalization starting that day and never look back. Video source: @GreylockVC (2015)"
X Link 2025-11-29T17:00Z 115.3K followers, 62K engagements

"a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz: Dont follow your passion Ben gives this advice to the Columbia University class of 2015: Dont follow your passion. Now I know youre probably thinking: Thats a really dumb idea because if you poll 1000 people who are successful theyll all say they love what they do. And so the broad conclusion of the world is that if you do what you love then youll be successful. But were engineers so we know that might be true. It also might be the case that if youre successful you love what you do you just love being successful everybody loves you its awesome. So which one is it"
X Link 2025-11-30T12:49Z 115.3K followers, 359.5K engagements

"Elon Musk: Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect Elon is asked for his advice for entrepreneurs to which he responds: Im a big fan of anyone who wants to build. Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. Thats the main thing you should aim for: to make more than you take and be a net contributor to society. He compares it to the pursuit of happiness: If you want to create something valuable financially you dont pursue that. Its best to pursue providing useful products and services. If you do that money will come as a natural consequence of that rather"
X Link 2025-12-01T12:49Z 115.3K followers, 32.6M engagements

"Dropbox founder Drew Houston on why distribution is more important than product LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman wrote in his book Blitzscaling: "Many people in Silicon Valley like to focus on building products that are in the famous words of the late Steve Jobs "insanely great." Great products are certainly a positive but the cold and unromantic fact is that a good product with great distribution will almost always beat a great product with poor distribution." Dropbox is a great example of this. As Dropbox founder & CEO Drew Houston explains great distribution is ultimately how they beat out"
X Link 2025-12-03T12:50Z 115.3K followers, 111.5K engagements

"Jason Citron on the growth hack that got Discord its first few thousand users We started working on Discord in January 2015 and within Id say two months some of our friends were very excited about it but we didnt really have any users. It was pretty clear they wanted to use it it just wasnt exactly correct. We rebuilt the voice chat engine three times for example. But Id say within 3-4 months we had XX DAU that werent us. However as Jason explains growth stalled after those first XX users: We were like How do we get the word out Because everyone was actually very skeptical about a group chat"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:50Z 115.3K followers, 20.3K engagements

"Elon Musk on the key to achieving word-of-mouth growth Tesla famously spends no money on advertising. Instead Elons strategy for Tesla is to: put all of our money and attention into trying to make the product as compelling as possible. As he explains the key to achieving word of mouth growth is building a product that people love. Simply liking it isnt good enough. I think that really the way to sell any product is through word of mouth. The key is to have a product that people love If you just like something and its ok youre not gonna care that much. But if you love it youre going to talk"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:59Z 115.3K followers, 39.5K engagements

"Jony Ive explains the Steve Jobs product philosophy that saved Apple from bankruptcy in 1998 Our job isnt to make money for Apple. Our job is to try and make the very best products we can. Jony is aware that this sounds simplistic and easy to say given that Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world today. But he points out that Steve Jobs stuck to this philosophy when Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1998: When Steve came back thats how he articulated what the goals of the company needed to be It takes a tremendous courage when youre losing fabulously large amounts of"
X Link 2025-12-06T12:50Z 115.3K followers, 195.2K engagements

"Jeff Bezos: Stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldnt be ignoring If I find that some particular thing is causing me stress thats a warning flag for me. What it means is theres something that I havent completely identified - perhaps in my conscious mind - that is bothering me and I havent yet taken any action on it. Bezos continues: I find as soon as I identify it and make the first phone call or send off the first email message Even if its not solved the mere fact that were addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it. Stress he argues comes from ignoring"
X Link 2025-12-07T12:50Z 115.3K followers, 133.5K engagements

"The five things Sam Altman looks for in a founder In the clip below Sam Altman talks through the five things he believes makes really great founders special and what he would look for in a cofounder. #1: I always figure it out and I never give up There are two phrases that come to mind if I were trying to pick what our top XX most successful founders would have said about themselves when we were interviewing them at YC: I always figure it out and I never give up Everyone thinks that really matters is how smart they are or their domain expertise or their network But it really is this kind of"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:03Z 115.3K followers, 105.1K engagements

"Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman explains why your company priorities are wrong I found out early on that if you can whittle things down to just one thing you become unstoppable. Unfortunately people resist whittling things down to one thing because its really hard to decide what that one thing is. The former Snowflake and ServiceNow CEO continues: People have a very easy time telling you what their top 3-5 things are because hopefully the right things are in there somewhere I cant tell you how many board meetings Ive been in where the CEO puts a PowerPoint up and its one bullet after another"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:00Z 115.3K followers, 58.6K engagements

"Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong on common startup hiring mistakes The mistake that a lot of startups make is that they hire too fast. They treat the absence of any negatives as a reason to hire whereas it should be not just the absence of negatives but a hell yes - I learned something from this person or theyre way better than me at something. In the early days of Coinbase Brian actually invited prospective new hires to work with him for a week or two before offering them a job: Youll know within a week or two - this person got a bunch of stuff done that was useful and helped move the ball"
X Link 2025-12-10T12:49Z 115.3K followers, 8375 engagements

"Jeff Bezos on raising Amazons seed round: It was the hardest thing Ive ever done To raise the first $X million of seed capital for Amazon I sold XX% of the company at a $X million valuation. I sold XX% of the company for a million dollars to XX angel investors roughly $50000 each. Jeff recalls taking XX meetings to get to those XX angels who said yes which means roughly XX of the investors he pitched said no. And by the way the XX nos were hard-earned nos They were multiple meetings working really hard to get people to write that $50000 check. And the whole enterprise could have been"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:00Z 115.3K followers, 476.8K engagements

"Ryan Petersen on what Paul Graham told him when he stepped down as Flexport CEO Y Combinator founder Paul Graham was Flexports first investor. Ryan Petersen recalls telling Paul that he was hiring Amazons Dave Clark to replace him as CEO in 2022: No one has ever been more disappointed in me than when I told PG that I was hiring a CEO Ryan remembers. Paul first asked Ryan if Flexport was his lifes work to which he answered Yes. Then why would you ever leave Paul asked. Ryan said he thought the new CEO would be better for the company. Thats like saying some other guy is going to be a better"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:58Z 115.3K followers, 49.7K engagements

"Watch the full @kleinerperkins interview with Ryan Petersen here:"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:58Z 115.3K followers, 3876 engagements