THE VIDEO SHELF · startup success
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup
A 16-minute Y Combinator Startup School talk in which Sam Altman lays out what makes a startup succeed. It covers building a product people tell friends about, exponential markets, real versus fake trends, and having an ambitious vision.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the single Startup School video worth watching, a short and dense talk on what makes a startup work; one commenter dismisses it as platitudes.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Y Combinator
- Topic
- startup success
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I did the very first Startup School and the most recent Startup School. When I did the first Startup School I made a number of mistakes. The most costly was that I didn't launch early enough. When I did eventually launch my product, I launched …
davej on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Applications Are Now Open for YC Startup School – Starts in JanuaryThis is very much my line of thought. I have come to use different terms for these: - Startup is what I now call VC funded companies. A startup can and often does 'make the world better' for some definition of better - A profitable …
karmakaze on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Startup idea checklist
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.