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Several tech founders and CEOs, including Vlad Tenev, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang, have shared their insights on leadership, company culture, and success. Notably, Robinhood's Vlad Tenev admitted to regretting his decision to adopt a remote-first policy, while Jensen Huang emphasized the importance of perseverance, stating that his "will to survive exceeds everybody else's will to kill me". Meanwhile, Elon Musk shared his approach to interviewing candidates, asking them to tell the story of their career.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman on how much equity to give your first XX employees In the early days of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla recruited some of the best engineers in the world: Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy and Eric Schmidt. Sam Altman asks Vinod how he convinced these people to join him when Sun was just a small startup. Vinod replies: I see this as a major problem nowadays. People arent allocating equity widely enough. I think among the first three or four founders at Sun we kept less than half of the common. The total was something like 25-27% for the founders an equal or slightly larger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1975229399835287667) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-06T15:59Z 101.4K followers, 105.8K engagements


"Paul Grahams X principles for making new things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1957128926104363369) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-08-17T17:14Z 101.4K followers, 47.7K engagements


"John Collison on three things founders can learn from Elon Musk Stripe co-founder John Collison says he found the Walter Isaacson biography of Elon Musk to be a useful resource for studying The Elon Method. John came away with three important learnings from it: #1 Pick the right high-level metric to optimize for John observes that Elon always picked a sensible metric to optimize for with every business he ran. With SpaceX for example Elon focused the company on dollars per kilogram to orbit. Teslas focus on deliveries per week is another non-obvious example: You couldve focused on revenue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1974079467480924578) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-03T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 104.8K engagements


"YC CEO Garry Tan: Moat is not a noun. Its a verb Popular belief says startups win because they have one big game-changing insight. But Varun Mohan (Windsurf CEO) argues thats a myth. Every single insight we have is a depreciating insight. In other words: the value of your insight declines fast. Competitors catch up. Markets shift. What was once novel becomes table stakes. He uses Nvidia as the example: Even at a trillion-dollar scale and XX% gross margins they still have to innovate or AMD catches up. The real advantage Continuously generating new insights and executing on them. Its not about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1974504821425082471) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-04T16:00Z 101.4K followers, 175.1K engagements


"Jeff Bezos: The founders job is to build a heavy company Jeff Bezos recalls how Amazons stock price fell from $XXX to $X when the Internet bubble burst. Shareholders were upset; employees were nervous; their parents were calling our employees and asking if they were ok Jeff remembers. This was an environment of great nervousness. But I looked at the numbers in the business and every month as the stock price went from $XXX to $X our number of customers went up our gross profits went up and our losses as a % of sales went down. Every single business metric we were monitoring for that entire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1976253851071086754) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-09T11:50Z 101.4K followers, 312.9K engagements


"Sam Altman on the importance of momentum and why burnout doesnt come from working too hard I was told and I thought for a long time that you get burned out from working too hard. At least in my own experience what Ive found is that burnout actually comes from failing and things not working. Sam continues: Momentum is really energizing. The lack of momentum is super draining. And I find that I have infinite energy to work on things that I find interesting and that are working and almost none to work on things that I either dont find interesting or arent working. He offers the following advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1976679319910174945) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-10T16:00Z 101.4K followers, 123.5K engagements


"Ben Horowitz: Every founder experiences doubt even Mark Zuckerberg Congratulations on betting on yourself a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz tells an audience full of founders. Your job is to make your bet payoff. You believed in yourself enough to do it and there are going to be many times when you question that bet. But that gets you nothing. Ben offers the following advice: You just have to do your thing keep going and focus on what you can do. The doubts are going to be there but ignore the doubts. The worst doubts arent the ones people put on you; theyre the ones that you put on yourself."  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1978065780907352323) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-14T11:50Z 101.4K followers, 59.6K engagements


"Tony Fadell on opinion-based decisions and what made Steve Jobs great Tony Fadell is the co-creator of the iPod iPhone and Nest. He describes some of the things that made Steve Jobs great: Really pushing you. Relentless on the details. Challenging you for the right reasons. It wasnt bullying it wasnt demeaning. He would critique the work not judge the personat least not in front of them or a group. Extreme attention to detail. But one of the most impressive things about Steve Tony argues was his ability to make great opinion-based decisions which are critical for any revolutionary product:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1978490878122446899) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-15T15:59Z 101.4K followers, 25.4K engagements


"Peter Thiel: There is no wisdom of crowds Thiel suggests that the antithesis of his book Zero To One is Malcolm Gladwells The Wisdom of Crowds. If you have to give credit to Malcolm Gladwell the way the argument actually works in the wisdom of crowds is if you have a crowd of people and they independently make a judgement you can average it out and youll get to a pretty good idea. The classic example is asking a group of people to independently guess how many marbles are in a bagthe average answer will be pretty good. But the problem is that in most cases the decisions dont end up getting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1972992376164503635) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-09-30T11:50Z 101.4K followers, 368.7K engagements


"Jeff Bezos explains the releasing the work framework he used to build Amazon In the early days of Amazon Jeff Bezos had too many ideas. Then Jeff Wilke a new Amazon executive at the time told his boss Jeff you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. This was just a shocking idea for me Bezos recalls. As a founder I had the great luxury of always being able to hire my tutors. I would hire these experienced senior executives . . . And I would listen to them and they would teach me. When Bezos asked Wilke what he meant by this Wilke responded You have to release the work at the right rate so that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1975166639675994540) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-06T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 678.4K engagements


"Jeff Bezos explains why wandering is essential for invention Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility Jeff Bezos begins. Wandering sounds so inefficient but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where youre going. Jeff continues: Sometimes you know where youre going. But sometimes you dont. And wandering is the acknowledgement that in life business invention and building a company a lot of the time you can see the mountain top but you cant see the trail. So you have to explore and wander. It may feel very inefficient. But its actually very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1975528935971565882) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-07T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 150K engagements


"Tobi Ltke: The best gift in life is finding a beautiful problem that you can never solve Shopify founder Tobi Ltke comments on his obsession with removing friction from e-commerce and why Shopify hasnt taken an Amazon-like approach in expanding to new markets: The best gift in life is finding a beautiful problem that you can never solve and if youre so unfortunate to solve it hopefully it has plenty of enlightened problem children that you can then tackle. Finding one of those is good and not having to meander into some complete adjacency to support it is actually wonderful. Stripe founder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1977703323873460391) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-13T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 45.6K engagements


"Uber founder Travis Kalanick on how to hire the best people Travis gives two pieces of tactical advice: X. Write a truly inspired blog post Write a truly inspired blog post that describes the company the mission the vision how it's amazing why you're amazing and why it's going to be amazing if that candidate comes and works with you. X. Inspired networking. This isn't for everybody but if you can really go out there and talk to everybody you know and find those amazing people and inspire the people you know to help you find amazing people you're going to do a good job. He continues: If you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1977766102366380037) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-13T15:59Z 101.4K followers, 43.8K engagements


"Jensen Huang explains why he has XX direct reports The people that report to the CEO should require the least amount of pampering They should be at the top of their game incredibly good at their craft and unless they need my personal help they should require very little management The more direct reports the CEO has the fewer layers there are in the company. And so it allows us to keep information fluid and allows us to make sure that everyone is empowered by information. And our company just performs better because everybodys aligned and informed of whats going on. Video source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1978790663954076159) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-16T11:50Z 101.4K followers, 115.2K engagements


"Sam Altman on the qualities of the best founders The trick to being a great founder is your ability to be presented with a problem unlike anything youve seen before and solve it very quickly. When Sam was CEO of Y Combinator they were looking at 20000+ companies per year and tracked the founder qualities that correlated with certain startup outcomes. In no particular order Sam believes the following qualities matter most: X. Clarity of vision. Can the founder explain what they do and why If the founder cant explain it clearly to us then (a) theyre not going to be able to recruit hire sell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1979515199599370719) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-18T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 43.2K engagements


"Jensen Huang: Money is the only singular reason not to start a company Money is the only singular reason not to start a company. Because starting a company has a very low probability of success. And so if that is your reason for doing it you will likely regret the experience You should build a company because you believe in your idea youre passionate about it and you want to build something great You have to have a perspective thats unique and that you feel really strongly about so youre willing to persevere almost any challenge to make it happen. Video source: @StanfordOnline (2011)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1966532298452648164) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-09-12T16:00Z 101.4K followers, 133.6K engagements


"Alex Karp: Ive never met someone successful who had a great social life at XX The CEO of Palantir is asked for his advice to young people in the age of AI. He responds with the following: Find the thing youre uniquely good at and then make sure your whole life is organized around allowing you to do it. The first failure mode Karp usually sees in young people at Palantir is not accepting what theyre actually good at. The second trap is not organizing their life around that ability. He frequently tells new hires at Palantir: Ive never met someone successful who had a great social life at XX. If"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1972692695026950535) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-09-29T15:59Z 101.1K followers, 137.7K engagements


"Jeff Bezos on the importance of intuition when building something new When Jeff Bezos is trying to figure out where his company should spend its energy and resources he always goes back to his customers needs. Thats the only way I can advise any founder or entrepreneur Jeff explains. Deeply understand what the big ideas are that their customers want. One way to understand your customers needs is to ask them. But Jeff argues thats not sufficient: You have to invent on their behalf. For the biggest breakthroughs and most important ideas customers dont know to ask for those things. You have to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1975891072082477484) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-08T11:48Z 101.3K followers, 46.6K engagements


"Why Larry Page said hed leave his money to Elon Musk if he got hit by a bus In this panel with Elon Musk venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson tells a story of Google cofounder Larry Page saying he should leave all of his money to Elon Musk: I could give my money to a nonprofit and a lot less would get done than a corporation thats pursuing things that are directly aligned with things I care about like getting off of oil and colonizing other planets. Page believes in those missions and thinks that a corporation endowed with the right to do that as its business purpose is the best vehicle out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1976316526429970756) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-09T15:59Z 101.2K followers, 124.3K engagements


"Naval Ravikant shares the common thread he sees across the great companies I definitely believe that as an entrepreneur youll never accomplish anything great in life unless you stick with it through the end. In this clip from a 2011 interview with Jason Calicanis on This Week in Startups Naval shares that he was reminiscing on the several amazing companies he had seen in his career: Dropbox Twilio Airbnb Square Twitter etc. I was thinking to myself: What was the common thread amongst each of them Its very hard to draw a common thread across such a large group. And I realized that the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1977403933913194924) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-12T16:00Z 101.4K followers, 93.6K engagements


"Marc Andreessen on why VCs ignore cold emails and why thats not unfair The way the top-end venture capitalist firms work is theyll basically take you seriously if you come in introduced by somebody theyve worked with before and they wont take you seriously if you dont. It might sound harsh. But Marc says this is your first test. Its the first test of your ability to network your way to the investor If you cant figure out a way to network your way to a VC firmwhich of course is in the business of meeting foundersthen youre unlikely to be able to network your way into hiring a great team or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1973417381897580838) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-01T15:59Z 101.4K followers, 173.3K engagements


"Jony Ive: Ideas are always fragile Ideas by definition are always fragile. If they were resolved they wouldnt be ideas. They would be products that were ready to ship. The legendary designer reflects on what he learned at Apple: Ive come to learn that you have to make an extraordinary effort not to focus on the problems which are implicated with any new idea. These problems are known. Theyre quantifiable and understood. But you have to focus on the actual idea which is partial tentative and unproven. If you don't actively suspend your disbelief if you don't believe there is a solution to the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1975954339609874456) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-08T16:00Z 101.4K followers, 70.3K engagements


"Jeff Bezos: People who are right a lot change their mind a lot Because of AI new technologies and all the dynamism in the world so many things are changing and theyre changing rapidly Jeff observes. The best solution hes found for dealing with this rapid change is thinking long-term because it forces you to ask yourself What are the points of stability and What is not going to change He continues: One of the things that changes very slowly is customer needs. So you can build a strategy around customer needs. That will have durability. When building Amazon for example Jeff built the company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1976616109345235409) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-10T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 104.8K engagements


"Replit CEO Amjad Masad on the most gangster story in Silicon Valley In September 2021 Replit founder Amjad Masad tweeted: The most gangster story in Silicon Valley is Steve Jobs buying Pixar for $5m investing $50m operating at a loss for a decade so much so he had to cut personal checks every month to make payroll and somehow turning it around to exit for $7B to Disney. He expands on this in his interview on the My First Million podcast: The thing I like about the Steve Jobs story is when he was lost in the desert for XX years. He was fired from Apple and then he created two companies that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1976978201613152472) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-11T11:48Z 101.4K followers, 246.7K engagements


"Bill Gurley on what he learned from his mistake of not investing in Googles Series A The biggest mistake I ever made is I met Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they had XX employees at Google and had them present to my partnership and we didnt follow through and try to invest. Bill reflects on what he learned from this: A lot of people talk about this in venture but you have asymmetric returns you can lose 1x your money but when you miss on a Google you can miss out on 10000x your money. So we had a saying internally What could go right We never sweated a zero But when we miss big winners we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1978129240530043087) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-14T16:02Z 101.4K followers, 170.1K engagements


"Palmer Luckeys advice for founder-led communications My advice to people would probably be to recognize that the value of your reputation is very high Anduril founder Palmer Luckey begins. If people do not trust you; if they do not believe in what youre saying; if they do not think that youre a person worth listening to theyre going to have a hard time working with you. Palmer also argues that founders dont need to be neutral: You dont need to be neutral. You can be a propagandist. You can advocate for a particular point of view . . . In general people should recognize that if you say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1978428131036856430) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-15T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 78.9K engagements


"Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on what many of the greatest products have in common "If you think about the greatest products they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them." Uber is one example. The original Uber was a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends. Google is another: Larry and Sergey built Google for Stanfordand particularly for themselves. The server was in Larrys dorm room. They opened up the server for the entire campus and the usage was phenomenal. Andy Bechtolsheim heard about it through David Cheriton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1978853119825170501) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-16T15:58Z 101.4K followers, 68.7K engagements


"Peter Thiel on the most important lesson he learned building PayPal The early employees of PayPal went on to build incredible companies like Tesla SpaceX LinkedIn YouTube Palantir Yelp Yammer and more. When asked about the factors that explain these outlier successes Thiel suggests that it was probably a combination of several different things: an entrepreneurial culture lots of strong personalities and the early 2000s was a great time to start a company. But Thiel also says that the overarching lesson you learned working at PayPalwhich had a lot of challenges but ended up succeedingwas: You"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1979152689838854479) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-17T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 104.3K engagements


"PayPal cofounder Max Levchin on what makes for the best cofounder relationships Max Levchin co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel in 1998. In the clip below he describes what he believes made their co-founder relationship so special: The most successful cofounding relationships are very similar to the most successful marriages. What I think makes a marriage successful is when you and your partner grow together. You never wake up one morning and say Ive outgrown you My relationship with Peter was one where I always wanted to make sure that he thought I did the best I could. I was always trying to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1979217060162080918) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-17T16:04Z 101.4K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Marc Andreessen on why we shouldnt encourage people to be entrepreneurs The idea of being an entrepreneur has been a romanticized concept. There used to be TV shows talking about how fun it was. And people ask questions How do we encourage more people to be entrepreneurs And my answer was always: no we shouldnt do that. People shouldnt be encouraged to do something that painful. They should do it because they really want to do it. In fact they should do it because they cant not do it. Marc continues: Its tremendously painful. Most of the experience of being in business as a startup is being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1979877626622701718) [@StartupArchive_](/creator/x/StartupArchive_) 2025-10-19T11:49Z 101.4K followers, 160.8K engagements