People forget just how completely non-obvious the entire digital revolution was every step of the way.
1995: WWW will fail
2002: Google will fail
2007: iPhone will fail
2013: Facebook will fail
Reading YC applications - I am so excited for the future of Indian startup ecosystem - so many awesome teams. I am quite bullish on India and I think in the future Indian startups will win the local market (it will become harder for the US companies to expand to India).
Something I see every day that is rarely discussed: founders/former founders/experienced founders helping new founders when they have no economic incentive to do so. This is part of the culture that makes the startup world work.
Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams (including a semi-pro team) at Dota 2: https://t.co/Q5UD85p6iQ
1/ The first 18 months of starting a company is often life or death. I must've made 5 different companies that each failed within 9 mo. 😭 Each time the company failed I figured out what I could do better. Eventually startup #6 got to $40K/mo by month 18. Here’s what I learned...
4) On the macro level, I have a bracelet I never take off that says EITHER WAY: succeed or fail, either way life continues (and generally improves). Helps as a constant visual reminder to put things in context.
Common advice I give to those who want to start a startup but don't have ideas they're really into yet: work at a growing startup!
In fact, you can apply to hundreds of them at once here: https://t.co/QN8FvEo5or