# ![@StartupArchive_ Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1443703292647940098.png) @StartupArchive_ Startup Archive

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 Influence

**Social category influence**
[celebrities](/list/celebrities)  20% [stocks](/list/stocks)  18% [finance](/list/finance)  17% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  15% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #59 [social networks](/list/social-networks)  4% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  2% [countries](/list/countries)  2% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[if you](/topic/if-you) 14%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 14%, [ceo](/topic/ceo) #3716, [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) #1963, [how to](/topic/how-to) 9%, [money](/topic/money) 7%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 7%, [jeff bezos](/topic/jeff-bezos) 7%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 7%, [business](/topic/business) 6%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@ycombinator](/creator/undefined) [@davidsenra](/creator/undefined) [@lexfridman](/creator/undefined) [@khoslaventures](/creator/undefined) [@finniantalk](/creator/undefined) [@teshen8lin](/creator/undefined) [@myfirstmilpod](/creator/undefined) [@startupgrind](/creator/undefined) [@acquiredfm](/creator/undefined) [@twistartups](/creator/undefined) [@jason](/creator/undefined) [@wharton](/creator/undefined) [@davidperell](/creator/undefined) [@stanfordonline](/creator/undefined) [@reuters](/creator/undefined) [@chriswillx](/creator/undefined) [@ecorner](/creator/undefined) [@greylockvc](/creator/undefined) [@vatortv](/creator/undefined) [@offtopicjp](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Shopify Inc (SHOP)](/topic/$shop) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [DoorDash Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [ServiceNow Inc (NOW)](/topic/servicenow)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Palmer Luckey: If your boss says they dont care about money you should be worried Shaan Puri host of the My First Million podcast jokes that the Silicon Valley thing is to pretend you dont like money. Anduril and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey comments: I actually tell our employees during onboarding that if you work at a place where your boss is saying that money is not the real objective you should be worried. Its one thing to say that to the press or your marketing materials but if your employees dont believe that at the end of the day youre trying to make their job a fiscally responsible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2019755528331694282)  2026-02-06T12:50Z 130.2K followers, 35.7K engagements


"Steve Jobs on his strategy for saving Apple from bankruptcy Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy when Steve Jobs returned to the company in July of [----]. The clip below is from a CNBC interview three months later. When asked about his strategy for turning the company around Jobs shared the following advice: Somebody taught me a long time ago a very valuable lesson which is if you do the right things on the top line the bottom line will follow. And what they meant by that was: if you get the right strategy if you have the right people and if you have the right culture at your company youll do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2020905950308335827)  2026-02-09T17:01Z 130.2K followers, 27.1K engagements


"Jessica Livingston on investing in Stripe when the Collison Brothers were teenagers Jessica reflects on a 19-year old Patrick Collison telling her and the other co-founders of Y Combinator that he wanted to take on the financial industry with his younger brother John. We were like Do you realize how hard this is And you dont have connections. But they were intrepid. They were like Well we dont have connections but well find connections. She recalls their determination and focus: You think the head of a bank is going to take a 19-year old startup founder seriously It seems pretty implausible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2021631380065796377)  2026-02-11T17:04Z 130.2K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Patrick Collison on the importance of beauty and craftsmanship when building products If Stripe is a monstrously successful business but what we make isnt beautiful and Stripe doesnt embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship Ill be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns the worlds just uglier than it needs to be One can do things well or poorly and beauty is not a rivalrous good. Patrick believes a commitment to craftsmanship and beauty played an important role in Stripes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1774403827548242333)  2024-03-31T11:50Z 130K followers, 752.8K 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](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1812092157987336388)  2024-07-13T11:50Z 129.9K followers, 115K engagements


"Jeff Bezos on raising Amazons seed round: It was the hardest thing Ive ever done To raise the first $1 million of seed capital for Amazon I sold 20% of the company at a $5 million valuation. I sold 20% of the company for a million dollars to [--] angel investors roughly $50000 each. Jeff recalls taking [--] meetings to get to those [--] angels who said yes which means roughly [--] of the investors he pitched said no. And by the way the [--] 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](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1998799927195971716)  2025-12-10T17:00Z 130.1K followers, 486.8K engagements


"Steve Wozniak explains why he gave $10 million of his own shares to early Apple employees after the IPO When Apple went public in [----] Wozs [--] million shares were worth some $116M and he gave away $10M of them to early Apple employees. As he explains in todays clip: There were five of us that really ran the company for the first three years and we pretty much had almost all the stock. So when we went public I didnt feel right about it. I felt that everybody whod been around us was a part of helping. He continues: I came from Hewlett Packard and they had profit sharing every quarter. A certain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1999886975520620949)  2025-12-13T16:59Z 130K followers, 611K engagements


"Marc Andreessen: Revolutionary technologies were often viewed as trivialities or jokes If you read history the great innovations of the past are now well understood as being very important. In almost every case they were not widely understood as such at the time. In fact I would assert that they were often actually viewed as trivialities or jokes. He gives three examples: [--]. The telephone. When Thomas Edison was first working on the telephone the assumption of the use case motivating his early work was the idea that telegraph operators needed to be able to talk to each other. It was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2005991080055976111)  2025-12-30T13:15Z 129.3K followers, 286.9K engagements


"Naval Ravikant: The future will be almost all startups I firmly believe that the efficient size of a company is shrinking very rapidly and so the future will be almost all startups. In the clip below from a [----] interview Naval speculates that information technology will reverse the centralizing force of economies of scale following the Industrial Revolution. I think the contract work trend is going to increase and I think the size of your average company is going to decrease. I think were going to see more and more billion dollar businesses built by four or five people and itll stay at that."  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2008221980412043516)  2026-01-05T17:00Z 130.1K followers, 212K engagements


"Jeff Bezos shares the advice he received from John Doerr early on at Amazon When I first met John Doerr who is the partner at Kleiner Perkins who invested in Amazon one of the things he said really stuck with me Jeff Bezos begins. What startup companies do is they take their precious early-capital dollars and systematically eliminate risks. Thats what the successful ones do. Jeff continues: What people often get wrong is that when youre a startup company 99% of whether you make it to being a more established company is luck. At Amazon weve worked incredibly hard. Weve cared for our customers."  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2009608596124733548)  2026-01-09T12:50Z 130.1K followers, 93.9K engagements


"Elon Musk makes [--] bold predictions for the next decade From the January [--] [----] interview with Peter Diamandis: #1 Human lifespans will nearly double in the next decade Asked what he thinks of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodeis prediction that human lifespans will double in the next decade Elon replies Thats probably correct. I dont know about doubling but a significant increase Sure. Elon explains: I have long thought that longevity or semi-immortality is an extremely solvable problem. I dont think its a particularly hard problem. When you consider the fact that your body is extremely synchronized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2010695724321681919)  2026-01-12T12:49Z 129.6K followers, 249.1K engagements


"Keith Rabois shares the decision-making framework he learned from Reid Hoffman Reid has a very specific view of how to make decisions Most people create pros and cons lists. But Reid was adamant that that was the worst possible way to make a decision. He trained me to never do that So since this conversation in [----] I have never done that. You will never find a notebook where I write down the pros and cons of any decision. Instead Reid advocates for strictly ranking your priorities this could be priorities in your life priorities for your company etc. Then you try to make the decision based"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2013657515536322994)  2026-01-20T16:58Z 129.4K followers, 129.3K engagements


"Jack Zhang on why he said no to Stripes $1.2 billion offer to buy Airwallex In October [----] Stripe reached out to buy us Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang (@awxjack) begins. Patrick Collison flew out to Shanghai to meet Jack and his co-founder and they spent the day together. After the meeting Patrick sent over a Google Doc that was 10-20 pages long and asked Jack to make comments. I was like Wow the vision of the companies over the next decade is very much the same. We both wanted to build the AWS of financial services and obviously Stripe was much further ahead of us. But this was before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2013974874125938754)  2026-01-21T14:00Z 130.1K followers, 696K engagements


"Peter Thiel on why all trends are overrated Im always skeptical of sectors and trends. People always ask me what some trends are that I see happening in the future and I have never liked the question because Im not a prophet and I dont think the future is fixed in that sort of way At this point I think all trends are overrated if you hear the words big data and cloud computing you need to run away as fast as you possibly can. Just think fraud and run away. He continues: All these buzzwords are a telllike in pokerthat the company is bluffing and undifferentiated Weve heard the buzzwords before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2014021005174513924)  2026-01-21T17:03Z 129.4K followers, 116.2K engagements


"Mark Zuckerberg on how to avoid bad hires when your startup is growing quickly As Mark explains every fast-growing startup will repeatedly face the choice: Do I hire the person whos in front of me now because they seem good or Do I hold out to get someone whos even better Mark offers his personal heuristic for founders facing this choice: The heuristic that I always focused on for myself and my own kind of direct hiring that I think works when you recurse it through the organization is that you should only hire someone to be on your team if you would be happy working for them in an alternate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2014744817452863862)  2026-01-23T16:59Z 129.6K followers, 156.6K engagements


"Peter Thiel on what he would look for if he was joining a startup Wharton professor Adam Grant asks Peter Thiel what he would look for if he was joining an early-stage startup. Thiel gives a simple response: Do you like the people Do you think you could become good friends with these people Thats such a critical part for getting these things to work. He recalls interviewing with a law firm in New York early in his career and one partner telling him: Its a place where everybody hates everybody else but we all make lots of money. The partner viewed it as an illustration of how incredibly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015472280118452450)  2026-01-25T17:10Z 129.4K followers, 59.9K engagements


"James Dysons advice for founders: You have to enjoy failure If you are exploring new territory experimenting and trying to do something different youre going to fail many times and youve got to bounce back from it James Dyson explains. The billionaire inventor argues that you should actually learn to enjoy failure: Failure is so much more interesting than success the reason something goes wrong is often very interesting whereas if works you just say great that works and dont even stop to wonder why it works. Youve got to learn to enjoy failure. That sounds like a difficult thing to do but you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015769092506911078)  2026-01-26T12:49Z 129.4K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Jeff Bezos explains how he came up with idea for Amazon In [----] Jeff Bezos came across the statistic that world wide web usage was growing at something like 2300% a year. That was a sort of wakeup call for me that there was something going on Jeff explains. Many people at that point hadnt heard of the web. They didnt have Internet access. This was the time of [--] kilobit per second modems and dial-up access so it was a very different age. But it was clear that there was going to be something there. Then he had a big idea: I realized that you could make a bookstore on the web that could hold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016493964871025069)  2026-01-28T12:50Z 129.5K followers, 17.2K engagements


"DoorDash founder Tony Xu: "You can't compete against an incumbent on their territory Tony argues: You have to find something where they're not incentivized to do it (Innovator's dilemma) and you have to find an area where you think you can be advantaged. For DoorDash this was end-to-end delivery and focusing on suburbs rather than cities. The incumbents at the time didnt want to touch end-to-end delivery because it was lower margin. Incumbents also focused on cities because of the network density but DoorDash realized the market outside of city centers was actually the bigger opportunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016919320107139331)  2026-01-29T17:00Z 129.7K followers, 41.8K engagements


"Sam Altman on what he learned from Peter Thiel Sam reflects on Peters ability to come up with evocative short statements that really stick in your brain (e.g. We wanted flying cars instead we got [---] characters.): I dont really know anybody else who does that like he does but he just has very interesting things to say and very interesting ways to say them. With most people youre lucky to get one or the other and hes a very rare combination of both. Its super impressive. Sam believes what makes Peter special is his ability to think about the world in a deeply unconstrained way: The first thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017281503651102941)  2026-01-30T16:59Z 129.6K followers, 25.4K engagements


"Watch the full @david_perell interview with Sam Altman here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=6pxmdmlJCG0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=6pxmdmlJCG0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017281506830324105)  2026-01-30T16:59Z 129.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Naval Ravikant on the single-most important indicator of an entrepreneurs success Naval admits its very difficult to predict which startups will workonly [--] out of [--] of his angel investments succeedbut he has noticed a common trait among many of the great companies: The founders are in it for the long haul. And the way you see that evidence very early on. They are extremely deliberate about all kinds of small decisions. Stuff you might think that doesnt matter And what you realize is is its their nature to obsess over these things because they feel like like theyre laying the bricks and the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017581151431295466)  2026-01-31T12:50Z 129.4K followers, 34K engagements


"Paul Graham explains why you shouldnt try to be a visionary Empirically the way to do really big things seems to be to start with small things and grow them bigger. Want to dominate microcomputer software for decades Start by writing a basic interpreter for a machine with a couple thousand users. Want to make the universal website and a giant vacuum for peoples time Start by building a website where Harvard undergrads can stalk one another. Paul Graham continues: Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew how big their companies were going to get. All they knew was that they were onto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017943515578449995)  2026-02-01T12:50Z 129.3K followers, 49.8K engagements


"Peter Thiel on how the PayPal team didnt get alongand why thats good: We were less smoothly functioning but people felt ownership. They raised their voices when things were off track. PayPal went from $0 to $1.5B in [--] years. Peter thinks its intense culture was key to its success: The PayPal period was a very compressed four years from start to when eBay acquired it. It was a relatively entrepreneurial somewhat chaotic culture. We had a lot of very strong personalities. He contrasts that with hiring people who just fall-in-line and argue less: I think a lot of companies bias towards having"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2018006472026894707)  2026-02-01T17:00Z 129.6K followers, 19.1K engagements


"Marc Andreessen on the [--] things he looks for when investing in a startup The first thing Marc Andreesen looks for is a big market: Is there a big existing market that you think you can go after and displace incumbents Or do you believe there will be a new market that will be big The second thing he looks for is a 10x better product: Is there a fundamental technology or economic change that justifies a new company And the way I always think about that is: Is there a 10x change happening in the technology landscape Is something 10x faster 10x cheaper or 10x better If its not 10x we as both VCs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2018305903443792018)  2026-02-02T12:50Z 130K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Elon Musk on the power of cross-pollinating ideas from different industries He uses Tesla and SpaceX as an example: The Model S is the only all-aluminum body and chassis car made in North America. Very few cars are all aluminum. In the aerospace industry thats the default. So it seemed like obviously the right move to minimize the non-battery-pack mass of the car. In order to offset a fairly heavy battery pack we had to make the rest of the car light but still achieve a five-star safety rating. I dont think it would have been possible to do that if we had used steel which is the traditional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2018368823783456849)  2026-02-02T17:00Z 129.4K followers, 24.1K engagements


"No pay. No ego. No life. - Spenser Skates on building a $1B company No other commitments outside of work. No attachment to money. Obsessively curious about the work. Willing to work for very long periods of time with no success. No ego attachment to outcomes. Spenser imagined an extreme almost fanatical archetype. A persona almost no sane person would attempt to emulate. His reasoning: The fewer distractions the greater the chance of building something great. Spenser adds: Peter Thiel said CEO pay is anti-correlated with company success. I thought great Ill just not pay myself anything. He"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2018730434071331158)  2026-02-03T16:56Z 130.1K followers, 37.4K engagements


"Tobi Lutke on why you want rivals for your company If you compete with another company theres a lot of copying Shopify founder Tobi Lutke begins. Companies tend to get obsessed there are companies where the most active channel in their slack is the competitive analysis channel where people just share everything everyone else is doing. While that has some merit I think the problem is that makes companies very reactionary. Tobi explains: In the arts part of everyones art studies is copying the great pieces. You make copies of great works. But your painting will never be at the quality of a Van"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2019030714067349805)  2026-02-04T12:50Z 129.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Keith Rabois explains Founder Mode and its similarities to how PayPal was run in the early days At PayPal we never promoted anybody based on their management skill. We promoted everybody based on their craft. So if you wanted to run the design team you had to be the best designer. If you wanted to run the engineering team you had to be the best engineer. If you wanted to run product you had to be the best product person. The CFO had to be the best finance person. The elimination of middle management from company org charts that Airbnb founder Brian Chesky talks about and Paul Grahams viral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2019093621316939926)  2026-02-04T17:00Z 129.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Frank Slootmans promise to employees: I am here to better your station in life Frank was brought in as CEO for three different companies: Data Domain ServiceNow and Snowflake. When he joined each company the first thing he did was tell the employees: I am here to better your station in life. As he explains This is what builds fabric in organizations. When employees feel like you have their back and know whats important to them it builds trust. Frank also emphasizes that this cant just be an empty promise you have to mean it. Itll make your work more meaningful too: We have changed peoples"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2020116764890177784)  2026-02-07T12:45Z 130.1K followers, 39.4K engagements


"Stripe founder John Collison: People underestimate anecdotes People have realized that data is important but sometimes they underestimate anecdotes because it surfaces the questions that you should be asking. Data is good if you have a specific question and you want the answer to it. The Stripe founder recalls the small hotel their dad ran in Ireland: You do not need to run a complex user research study to know if youre doing a good or bad job in a hotel You just walk around and the questions you should be asking will slap you in the face. For example if people are waiting on their food for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2020180077737373785)  2026-02-07T16:57Z 130.1K followers, 29.9K engagements


"Sam Altman explains why the great wave is the most important concept for good startup ideas This idea of the great wave - I think this is the most important concept to find good ideas out there. People wonder why startups cluster in small periods of time The reason is that there are these great waves. He gives the example of the internet giving rise to a number of massive companies in the late 90s and early 2000s. Then smartphones gave rise to another group of companies in the 2009-2011 period. All of a sudden new things are possible that were never possible before. And when that happens -"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2019828553639239732)  2026-02-06T17:40Z 130.2K followers, 12.9K engagements


"YC Partner Kevin Hale: Marketing is a tax you pay for not making your product remarkable In the clip below the YC Partner and former Wufoo founder (acquired by SurveyMonkey) is asked how founders should balance working on product with other company priorities like marketing. He gives the following response: My feeling is you having to spend money on marketing and advertising is usually a tax you pay because you havent made your product remarkable. Word of mouth growth is the easiest kind of growth and its how a lot of the great companies grow. He advises companies: Figure out how to have a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1890446023153360960)  2025-02-14T17:00Z 130.2K followers, 33.5K engagements


"YC Partner Kevin Hale: Marketing is a tax you pay for not making your product remarkable YC Partner and former Wufoo founder (acquired by SurveyMonkey) Kevin Hale is asked how founders should balance working on product with other company priorities like marketing. He gives the following response: My feeling is you having to spend money on marketing and advertising is usually a tax you pay because you havent made your product remarkable. Word of mouth growth is the easiest kind of growth and its how a lot of the great companies grow. He advises companies: Figure out how to have a story that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1985391984924623227)  2025-11-03T17:01Z 130.2K followers, 38.6K engagements


"John Carmack on what he admires about Elon Musk Programming legend John Carmack is asked about his relationship with Elon Musk to which he replies: In some ways we have a similar background. Were almost exactly the same age have backgrounds programming personal computers and have even read similar books that have turned us into the people we are today. John first met Elon when he was building Armadillo Aerospace. Elon visited Armadillo with his right-hand propulsion guy and the three of them talked about rockets. I think in many corners Elon does not get the respect he should for being a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2001273783844220985)  2025-12-17T12:50Z 130.2K followers, 5.6M engagements


"Steve Jobs: The difference between good people and great people is 50-to-1 Ive always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very high. I mean thats what I consider one of the few things I can contribute individually myself versus the team that work with is to really try to instill in the organization the goal of having only A players. Steve argues this is especially important in technology where theres a huge range between the best person and the worst person: In a lot of fields the difference between say the worst taxicab driver"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015406800808599971)  2026-01-25T12:50Z 130.2K followers, 45.9K engagements


"Ben Horowitz explains the biggest mistake founders make pitching VCs The big mistake people make is they try to appeal too much to the venture capitalists. Thatll drive us crazy because its a little bit of a sign of anti-courage. Ben shares an example of being pitched by founders who are conservative in their estimates because they know VCs like conservatism. However what VCs want to hear is what you actually believe not what you think they want to hear. Anything that shows a lack of conviction or courage or belief in what youre doing is what always ends up worrying me. Either you believe it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017643965793681482)  2026-01-31T16:59Z 130.2K followers, 27K engagements


"Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO The greatest people are self-managing. They dont need to be managed. Once they know what to do theyll go figure out how to do it What they need is a common vision and thats what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it and getting consensus on a common vision. Steve continues: We wanted people who were insanely great at what they did and the neatest thing that happens when you get a core group ten great people is that it becomes self-policing as to who they let into that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1855231680237474259)  2024-11-09T12:51Z 130.2K followers, 30.7M 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](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1995475349807763905)  2025-12-01T12:49Z 130.2K followers, 32.8M engagements


"Naval Ravikant: Networking is overrated Do something great and your network will instantly emerge" Naval offers the following advice to startup founders: Dont spend your time doing meetings unless you really really have to. I really think networking is overrated. Theres all these articles about how youve got to network more and it makes me want to vomit. Instead he suggests: Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge. If you build a great product or if you get a good customer base I guarantee you will get funded. Recruiting (customers and employees) and learning from really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1999824122428232118)  2025-12-13T12:50Z 130.2K followers, 609.2K engagements


"Elon Musk on building his first startup Zip2 In [----] when he was just [--] years old Elon dropped out of Stanfords PhD program in physics to start Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk. Elon personally wrote the first national maps directions yellow pages and white pages on the Internet that summer in C with a little C++. In this CBS interview a [--] year old Elon describes living in a $200/month office with a leaky roof: We found that an office was actually cheaper than apartment in Silicon Valley and we got this dinky little office that had a leaky roof. It was just the nastiest place you could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2007134801900273743)  2026-01-02T17:00Z 130.2K followers, 13.5M engagements


"Marc Andreessen on how to get people to join your 3-person startup Marc says founders have two tools at their disposal to win new hires: 1) Stock options and 2) vision. He explains: The best entrepreneurs are really good at selling people on their company precisely because they can explain how the world is going to look in a way that is so compelling. Marc points to Steve Jobss reality distortion field as the epitome of this: If you get within [--] feet of Steve Jobs whatever he says in the next [--] minutes youre going to walk out of there believing. He can say that the sky is purple and youre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2018668292202742230)  2026-02-03T12:50Z 130.2K followers, 69K engagements


"Billionaire Palmer Luckey on why he only flies coach I dont fly private and do fly coach billionaire founder of Anduril and Oculus Palmer Luckey says. For me its a reasoned thing. With exceptions for long international travel we only cover coach travel for our employees its only a few hours and its a very bad use of company money for us to be buying business or first-class for people. Because we have so much travel at the company we could easily spend a very serious fraction of our resources on people traveling instead of slightly better seats. To lead by example Palmer will fly coach even"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2019393541143687426)  2026-02-05T12:51Z 130.2K followers, 372.1K engagements


"Mark Zuckerberg on the best advice Peter Thiel ever gave him Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote that In a world thats changing so quickly the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk. And I really think that that is true. Mark continues: Whenever you get yourself into a position where you have to make some big shift in direction or do something there are always people who are going to point to the downside risks of that decision and locally they may be right. For any given decision you make theres upside and downside. But in aggregate if you are stagnant and you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2020480092858675659)  2026-02-08T12:49Z 130.2K followers, 250.5K engagements


"Elon Musk: Failure is irrelevant unless its catastrophic Elon is asked why hes so tolerant of the failure that often stems from taking big risks to which he responds: I think of these things as: Theres a certain amount of time and within that time you want the best net outcome. For the set of actions you can do there will be some which will fail and some which will succeed. And you want the net useful output of your actions to be the highest. He uses baseball as an analogy: You cant just sit there and wait for the perfect pitch . . . So what youre really looking for is: Whats the batting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2020842618419290329)  2026-02-09T12:50Z 130.2K followers, 59.4K engagements


"Facebook VP of Growth Alex Schultz: Startups should not have growth teams Its easy to forget that Facebook didnt create their growth team until [----] when they already had tens of millions of users. Alex points out a common mistake startups often make: Startups should not have growth teams. The whole company should be the growth team. The CEO should be the head of growth. You need someone to set a north star for you about where the company wants to go and that person needs to be the person leading the company from what Ive seen. At Facebook Mark Zuckerberg selected monthly active users as the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2021267725453008898)  2026-02-10T16:59Z 130.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Watch the full Alex Schultz lecture featured by @ycombinator here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n_yHZ_vKjno https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n_yHZ_vKjno"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2021267729215267091)  2026-02-10T16:59Z 130.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Brian Cheskys response to the Samwer Brothers cloning Airbnb: Missionaries will outlast mercenaries In mid-2011 the Samwer Brothers cloned Airbnbs website. At the time they were notorious for cloning companies that were working in the US and replicating it across Europe and non-English-speaking countries. Before cloning Airbnb they sold their Groupon clone MyCityDeal to Groupon itself for roughly [---] million. Brian describes the situation Airbnb was facing: We had [--] employees and had raised $7M. They cloned us and raised $90M and in [--] days they hired [---] people and wanted to sell the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2021929703922176232)  2026-02-12T12:49Z 130.2K followers, 12K engagements


"WhatsApp founder Jan Koum on how to deal with competition We always had competition - like from day one. There was actually a point in time where there was a new messaging app popping up every month. And every month there was an article on TechCrunch about how this awesome new messaging app is going to take down all other messaging apps. But the early WhatsApp team basically just ignored it: We didnt say anything because we didnt want to draw attention to ourselves. We actually - on purpose - tried to stay under the radar. But it was just kind of funny to see this dog and pony show that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2021992673771442373)  2026-02-12T16:59Z 130.2K followers, 10.9K 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)  2025-10-07T11:49Z 128.8K followers, 152.9K engagements


"Jeff Bezos: The founders job is to build a heavy company Jeff Bezos recalls how Amazons stock price fell from $113 to $6 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 $113 to $6 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)  2025-10-09T11:50Z 128.8K followers, 316.2K engagements


"Replit CEO Amjad Masad on the most gangster story in Silicon Valley In September [----] 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 [--] years. He was fired from Apple and then he created two companies that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1976978201613152472)  2025-10-11T11:48Z 128.8K followers, 248.8K 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)  2025-10-19T11:49Z 128.8K followers, 254.7K engagements


"Jony Ive: You have to reject reason to innovate If it hasnt been done and its of value theres really good reasons its not been done. And so when youre confronted with those reasons youve got two choices. You can say Oh thats a very good reason Im sorry for bothering you. Or you can say I dont believe that. Im going to find out more. Jony Ive continues: George Bernard Shaw talked bout how you have to reject reason to innovate. You have to say We understand. This is all very reasonable. But Im going to ignore you completely. And if you're a fairly sensitive person ignoring very smart people is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1979940353013956819)  2025-10-19T15:59Z 129K followers, 346.3K 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](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1980240080565641668)  2025-10-20T11:50Z 128.8K followers, 710.8K 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](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1980602700736712728)  2025-10-21T11:50Z 128.8K followers, 216.2K engagements


"John Collison: We only had [--] users two years after founding Stripe We started working on Stripe in the Fall of [----] and we launched Stripe in September [----] John Collison reflects. I remember right at the beginning when we were starting it I said to Patrick Collison Yeah lets do it. How hard can it be Which gives you a sense of our mindset. And the answer was: two years of difficulty. We had not predicted that. John remembers feeling dejected when Stripe only had [--] users two years later: When you spend two years getting [--] users it doesnt feel like a whole lot of progress. It feels like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1981327237577060719)  2025-10-23T11:49Z 128.8K followers, 193.1K engagements


"Jeff Bezos: You dont understand my audience When Charlie Rose asks him if the iPad is a Kindle killer in this [----] interview Jeff gives an incredible response: Its a very different product and I can give you an example. If I came to you and said: Charlie I love your show but weve got to sex it up. We need fast cuts and vicious arguments between your guests. You would rightly say to me: Jeff I love you man but you dont understand my audience. We have a cerebral conversation here. Its what we do and its how were differentiated. He continues: When people come to me and say: Youve got to have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1987203461847654861)  2025-11-08T17:00Z 128.8K followers, 1.2M engagements


"Jensen Huang: To be CEO is a lifetime of sacrifice Most people think that being CEO is about leading being in command and being on top Nvidia founder Jensen Huang begins. But none of that is true. Jensen explains: Youre in service of the company. Youre creating conditions for other people to do their lifes work. Youre inspiring through example. Most of the examples are making difficult decisions during very difficult times. Its mostly about sacrifice. Its also about strategy. And strategy is not just about choosing what to do. Its about choosing what not to do which is sacrifice. He"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1990402000979116154)  2025-11-17T12:49Z 128.8K followers, 154.3K engagements


"John Carmack on the importance hard work: For decades I worked [--] hours a week I was never one of the programmers who would do all-nighters or work for [--] hours straight programming legend John Carmack begins when asked about his work routine. My brain generally starts turning to mush after [--] hours or so. But hard work is really important and for decades I would work [--] hours a week. I would work [--] hours a day [--] days a week. He continues: I had a little thing in the back of my head where I was almost jealous of some of the programmers who would do these marathon sessions. Like Dave Taylor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2000548826269065317)  2025-12-15T12:49Z 128.7K followers, 242.3K engagements


"Naval Ravikant on Elon Musk: The great entrepreneurs are willing to start over Naval argues that pride is the enemy of learning: When I look at my friends and colleagues the ones who are still stuck in the past and have grown the least are the ones who were the proudest because they feel they already had the answers and dont want to correct themselves publicly Pride prevents you from saying Im wrong. The problem with pride Naval explains is that it prevents you from saying Im wrong. When you dont admit that you were wrong you get stuck in it and you get trapped in a local maxima as opposed to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2007071920169136542)  2026-01-02T12:50Z 128.8K followers, 36K engagements


"Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta on doing things that dont scale Y Combinator encourages startups to do things that dont scale. I find that this is one of the biggest competitive advantages that a startup has over a larger company The idea is that once your product has demand you can figure out how to scale your product. Apoorva explains how in the early days of Instacart customers could place orders even if there werent shoppers online to fulfill those orders. Of course this meant that I would drop everything I was doing and fulfill the order myself. They also ran into the issue that Trader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2009309300901204392)  2026-01-08T17:00Z 128.8K followers, 37.5K engagements


"Steve Wozniak tells the founding story of Apple and how he invented color on the computer Today Apple is valued at almost $3 trillion. But as Woz recounts they got started selling $40 PC kits to hobbyists: I had this computer and I was giving away all the designs for free. Steve Jobs said Wow we should sell these PC boards. Build them for $20 sell it for $40. To fund the company both Steves had to come up with a couple hundred bucks each and Woz sold the most valuable thing he owned: his HP [--] calculator. The first PC boards were impressivethey could actually run software and programs. So"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2012933055464296786)  2026-01-18T17:00Z 128.7K followers, 130.6K engagements


"Ben Horowitz: Running your company without a board after youve raised money is a dangerous idea Jack Altman asks a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz how important boards are for startups. Some venture capital firms pitch it as a selling point that they dont take a board seat and leave the founders alone. Others believe they can add a lot of value by taking a board seat. Ben responds: First of all boards are important for founders. The idea that youre going to run without a board after youve given equity to employees and sold equity to people who are not you is the most dangerous fing idea in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2013232289967222849)  2026-01-19T12:49Z 128.8K followers, 38.1K engagements


"Tobi Lutke: Books are a cheat code for life Shopify founder Tobi Lutke explains why he reads so many books: If you dont read books you live a lifetime. If you read books you live [----] lifetimes. David Senra reads a quote of Tobis back to him: Books are the closest thing youll ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone elses career in a few hours. Tobi comments: I really think we need to shout this point from a rooftop. The one weird trick seems to be: read books. It kind of doesnt matter what you read just make a habit of reading books and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2013594850109665584)  2026-01-20T12:49Z 128.7K followers, 70.6K engagements


"Jeff Bezos on what founders need to understand about brands I think our most important piece of intellectual property is our brand name Jeff Bezos says of Amazon. And I think this is very important for anybody who is going to start a company or market an invention to understand brands for companies are like reputations for people. Reputations are hard earned and easily lost. Jeff continues: Weve worked very hard to earn trust. You cant ask for trust. You have to do it the hard way one step at a time. You make a promise and then you fulfill that promise. You say Well deliver this to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2014319637182193928)  2026-01-22T12:50Z 128.9K followers, 12.7K engagements


"Jensen Huang explains why companies will be much larger in the age of AI I was told a long time ago that NVIDIA would never be larger than a billion dollars Jensen begins. This forecast was obviously wrong. NVIDIAs market cap today is almost $3 trillion. Jensen argues that the markets for technology companies are going to be much larger in the future because the market for intelligent work is enormous: This is the extraordinary thing about technology right now Were in the manufacturing of intelligence. Were in the manufacturing of work. And the world of tasks - doing productive intelligent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2014382561703956855)  2026-01-22T17:00Z 128.7K followers, 12K engagements


"Sam Altman on what it means to be product-focused In his Startup Playbook Sam writes: Your goal as a startup is to make something users love. If you do that then you have to figure out how to get a lot more users. But this first part is criticalthink about the really successful companies of today. They all started with a product that their early users loved so much they told other people about it. If you fail to do this you will fail. If you deceive yourself and think your users love your product when they dont you will still fail. In this interview he explains what it means to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015107368745324867)  2026-01-24T17:00Z 128.9K followers, 13.6K engagements


"Watch the full @GreylockVC interview with Sam Altman here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CxKXJWf-WMg https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CxKXJWf-WMg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015107373145174505)  2026-01-24T17:00Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Watch the full @Wharton interview with Peter Thiel here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HZQnKtjM1TA&t=3779s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HZQnKtjM1TA&t=3779s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015472285126115397)  2026-01-25T17:10Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @roohchill: Wish I read this in 2018"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015493572309504396)  2026-01-25T18:34Z 128.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Watch the full @davidsenra interview with James Dyson here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Se64B8TKfjA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Se64B8TKfjA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015769097967989106)  2026-01-26T12:49Z 128.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Naval Ravikants checklist for starting a company The most important thing is there are no formulas. At the end of the day you have to do what you love and you have to do it even though people tell you itll never work. But that being said if there was a formula for starting a company I would put it something like this. Naval started seven companies before AngelList and this is the checklist he recommends running through before starting a startup: [--]. Pick a great cofounder. This is most important: You can do a company on your own but its like you can raise a child on your own but you probably"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015832109965783462)  2026-01-26T17:00Z 128.9K followers, 18.7K engagements


"Elon Musk tells the founding story of Tesla My interest in electric cars goes back [--] years to when I was in college Elon explains in this [----] interview. In fact the original reason I came out to Silicon Valley was to go to Stanford to get a PhD in applied physics and material science to develop advanced energy storage technologies for electric vehicles. After dropping out of his PhD program to build Zip2 and PayPal in the dot com boom Elon got another chance to work on electric vehicles: The thing that kind of spurred things in [----] was a launch that I had with Harold Rosen and J. B."  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016131587088253194)  2026-01-27T12:50Z 128.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Watch the full @vatortv interview with Elon Musk here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=B1h1aG0usIY https://www.youtube.com/watchv=B1h1aG0usIY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016131591970455648)  2026-01-27T12:50Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Watch the full interview with Jensen Huang on the @AcquiredFM podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=y6NfxiemvHg https://www.youtube.com/watchv=y6NfxiemvHg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016197486130692451)  2026-01-27T17:11Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Paul Graham explains what it means to do things that dont scale What doing things that dont scale means specifically is doing things in a sort of handmade artisanal painstaking way even if its not scalable. Its so important to get early customers that if you have to do a ton of manual stuff thats okay. Paul shares his own experience from building Viaweb an online store builder. They couldnt get anybody to buy their software in the beginning so Paul offered to build stores for customers himself using the software. It seemed so lame but having to use our software myself made it much better I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016556923944927256)  2026-01-28T17:00Z 128.8K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Watch the full @ycombinator interview with Paul Graham here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4WO5kJChg3w https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4WO5kJChg3w"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016556927442935834)  2026-01-28T17:00Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Tobi Lutke on why companies are special Companies are a social technology in the sense that they allow us to go all-in Shopify founder Tobi Lutke explains. It makes it socially acceptable to spend [--] hours per day singularly pursuing a thing. Tobi continues: Company building turns out to be the perfect excuse. Once you call it a company its not like tinkering around anymore with your ideas you get to explore things. Tobi argues that companies also let you run the counterfactual to the world you see around you. He explains: You get to try to build the thing that you think ought to be there."  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016856826864693632)  2026-01-29T12:51Z 129K followers, [----] engagements


"Watch the full @davidsenra interview with Tobi Ltke here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZSM2uFnJ5bs https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZSM2uFnJ5bs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016856829762969662)  2026-01-29T12:51Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Watch the full @khoslaventures interview with Tony Xu here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ty8dxqQB6BA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ty8dxqQB6BA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016919322913099838)  2026-01-29T17:00Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @aakashgupta: Everyone repeats dont compete on their territory without understanding what Tony actually did. DoorDash launched in 20"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017204474499010995)  2026-01-30T11:53Z 128.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Watch the full @OffTopicJP interview with Palmer Luckey here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=fgY5fM2cINc https://www.youtube.com/watchv=fgY5fM2cINc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017218372513984793)  2026-01-30T12:48Z 128.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Marc Andreessen on the [--] things he looks for when investing in a startup The first thing Marc Andreesen looks for is a big market: Is there a big existing market that you think you can go after and displace incumbents Or do you believe there will be a new market that will be big The second thing he looks for is a 10x better product: Is there a fundamental technology or economic change that justifies a new company And the way I always think about that is: Is there a 10x change happening in the technology landscape Is something 10x faster 10x cheaper or 10x better If its not 10x we as both VCs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2018306443955319017)  2026-02-02T12:52Z 128.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Steve Jobs on leadership In the clip below Steve argues: The greatest people are self-managing. They dont need to be managed. Once they know what to do theyll go figure out how to do it What they need is a common vision and thats what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it and getting consensus on a common vision. Borrowing from his tagline for the original Mac Steve continues: we wanted people who were insanely great at what they did and the neatest thing that happens when you get a core group of ten great people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1722959206985200050)  2023-11-10T12:47Z 129K followers, 190.3K engagements


"Naval Ravikants advice to startup founders: Stay small until youve figured out whats working Stay small until youve figured out whats working. Steve Blank who teaches at Stanford and started Epiphany among many other companies defines a startup very nicely. He says a startup is a search for a scalable and repeatable business model. And so what youre really doing is youre searching and until youve found that business model that you can repeat and you can scale you should stay very very small and very very cheap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1811729747417923658)  2024-07-12T11:50Z 129K followers, 192K engagements


"Naval Ravikant on the single-most important indicator of an entrepreneurs success Naval admits its very difficult to predict which startups will workonly [--] out of [--] of his angel investments succeedbut he has noticed a common trait among many of the great companies: The founders are in it for the long haul. And the way you see that evidence very early on. They are extremely deliberate about all kinds of small decisions. Stuff you might think that doesnt matter And what you realize is is its their nature to obsess over these things because they feel like like theyre laying the bricks and the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1892557313128693909)  2025-02-20T12:50Z 129K followers, 97.7K engagements


"Brian Chesky on what your startup can learn from Ernest Shackletons famous job ad At the end of the interview process the Airbnb founder will usually tell the candidate all of the reasons they shouldnt take the job: Its going to be the longest hours youve ever had. Im going to hold you to higher standards. Its going to be day and night. Its going to be this. Its going to be that. As Brian points out this is often the opposite of what recruiters will do: Recruiters often want to sell their company as a country club - we have great benefits we have great this we have great that. And it creates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1900577264317902858)  2025-03-14T15:58Z 129.2K followers, 145.8K engagements


"Larry Ellison on what made Steve Jobs great Steve was my best friend for about [--] years. We were neighbors in Woodside and his peacock wandered onto my property and woke me up. His girlfriend had given him a peacock and I came over to complain. Steve replied: You dont like that bird either Larry recalls how Steve made him watch [--] different versions of Toy Story: I said Im not coming over if you make me watch Toy Story again Now I know the new version is 4% better than the one I saw last week but Im not watching this thing again. And hed say: Larry you wont believe how different the shadows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1903775366704955398)  2025-03-23T11:46Z 129K followers, 141.4K engagements


"Palmer Luckey explains why founders need to make themselves obsolete When I started Oculus I thought I was really good at everything But I was only the best at a lot of things in our company because I had been negligent in my hiring process. For example Palmer was the best optical engineer in the company but he realized that wasnt something to be proud of. That was a failure. I failed my company and my investors by making myself a critical dependency for any of our products. And the reality is Im actually not a very good optical engineer. I was just the best at Oculus. Once you start scaling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1950949617866047637)  2025-07-31T16:00Z 129K followers, 163.3K engagements


"Elad Gils [--] archetypes of hyper-successful founders Elad Gil has invested in and advised some of the largest companies in the world including Stripe Airbnb Figma Instacart and Coinbase. When asked what made the founders of these companies so successful Elad replies: I think a lot of it is: Do you end up in the right market Is the market big enough Is it growing Is it dynamic in the right way I think half of it just is that you find the right market. So you need the right market but within that there are tons of people who enter these markets and do horribly. So whats different He notices that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2013294696362074509)  2026-01-19T16:57Z 129K followers, 76.1K engagements


"Netflix founder Reed Hastings #1 piece of advice for young CEOs When asked for his best advice for young CEOs Reed responds: I would say memorize the first [--] pages of Jim Collinss first big book Beyond Entrepreneurship. Someone gave it to be in [----] and Ive read it every year since. And the first [--] pages are absolutely incredible. So that would be the very practical advice. Video source: @StanfordGSB (2014) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015044452595736902 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015044452595736902"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2015044452595736902)  2026-01-24T12:50Z 129.2K followers, 102.2K engagements


"NVDIA CEO Jensen Huang: Your startup doesn't need a business plan I didnt know how to write a business plan Making a financial forecast that nobody knows is going to be right or wrong turns out to not be that important. Jensen continues: I think that the art of writing a business plan ought to be much much shorter. It should force you to concisely answer: What is the problem youre trying to solve What is the unmet need you believe will emerge And what is it that youre going to do that is sufficiently hard that when everybody else finds out its a good idea theyre not going to swarm it and make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2016197483068850687)  2026-01-27T17:11Z 129.1K followers, 34K engagements


"Palmer Luckey: Build the future you want instead of arguing with luddites In general its bad when a society turns luddite and starts to demonize new things . . . There are always people who have fought in the moment and very few who fight to go back after the fact. For those who are worried that AI will ruin everything and eliminate jobs Palmer asks: How many people said the same thing about automated manufacturing The reality was that it took cars from a plaything for the rich into something that anybody could use. Palmer gives several other examples to emphasize this point. People were very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/2017218369053667622)  2026-01-30T12:48Z 129.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Rippling founder Parker Conrad on the opportunity in building compound startups Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan points out that the classic startup advice is do one thing and do it extremely well but Parker took a different approach building Rippling that he calls the compound startup. He set out to solve multiple problems for their customers simultaneously. Parker elaborates on this: I think it actually resembles a lot of software companies that were built 20+ years ago. If you look at companies like SAP Oracle and Microsoft they actually look like compound software businesses What happened is I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1884584781431841029)  2025-01-29T12:50Z 130.1K followers, 48.4K engagements


"Keith Rabois: I tell founders not to worry about runway. Worry about lift. If you think about lift in a plane context a company is only valuable if you achieve lift. Runway is a tactic for achieving lift and you may need to extend the runway so that you have more time to get lift. But unless youre actually achieving lift with that extra time it doesnt help you. Keith continues: I hate when a founder is like I want to raise this much money because it gives me two years runway. That is a stupid way to think about your fundraising. Instead founders should ask themselves what they need to achieve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1977041477420102112)  2025-10-11T15:59Z 130.1K followers, 257.9K engagements


"Box founder Aaron Levies [--] lessons for startup founders Lesson 1: Do something that wasnt possible [--] years ago. If youre looking at a business opportunity that you could have done [--] or [--] years ago it might be too late or it might not be different enough to make a lot of people care. And thats ultimately what it takes to scale. So look for new technologies that are enabling your solution. Box wasnt possible in [----]. The enabling technology was cheaper storage better browsers more connected devices faster internet. Lesson 2: Do something youre extremely passionate about. Startups are very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1808105756560093642)  2024-07-02T11:49Z 130.2K followers, 15.6K engagements


"Peter Thiel: world-class entrepreneurs are typically polymaths I think that one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is that theyre not specialists. Theyre something closer to polymaths. Thiel continues: If you have a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg hed be able to speak with a surprising amount of understanding about a lot of things. He can speak about the details of the Facebook product. He can talk about the way people think about social media the psychology and the way the culture is shifting. Management of the company he has ideas on that. He has ideas on how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2007859606236680566)  2026-01-04T17:00Z 130.2K followers, 123.3K engagements


"Jony Ive on what Steve Jobs taught him about focus This sounds really simplistic but it shocks me how few people actually practice thisand its a struggle to practice Steve was the most remarkably focused person Ive ever met in my life. As Jony explains the tricky thing with focus is that its a struggle to practice. Every minute you have to ask: Why are we talking about this if its not what youre actually working on. You can achieve so much if you truly focus. Steve would regularly ask Jony how many things he has said no to. As Jony explains: What focus means is saying no to something that you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1934279525656928647)  2025-06-15T15:59Z 130.2K followers, 55.5K engagements


"Cruise founder Kyle Vogts framework for choosing a startup idea After cofounding Twitch and selling the company to Amazon for $1 billion in [----] Kyle was trying to figure out what to do next: Twitch was and is today pretty successful but the result was entertainment mostly That was a good thing. It felt good to entertain people but I realized I wanted something that scratched more of an existential itch and so something that truly matters. Twitch took eight years to become successful so one of Kyles core requirements for his next idea was that he had to be willing to commit at least [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2008584050986946650)  2026-01-06T16:58Z 130.2K followers, 16.2K engagements

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