Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it in startup video lists for its stories and Sacca's candid background.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

This Week in Startups

Topic

venture investing

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2017

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

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• My favorite, because it's so full of great stories, is the Chris Sacca interview with Jason Calacanis on This Week In Startups. Pt.1 [VIDEO] Pt.2 [LINK]

• Yeah, I recently heard someone talking about taking huge personal financial risk to keep a startup going and suggested maybe it's time to live and learn and start over with a hell of a lot better product-market fit or spend that money on Treehouse and …

• Chris Sacca's background story is little known and he talks about it at length with Jason Calacanis. The part about him losing millions while still at university is as shocking as his recovery from the setback is amazing. Check out [VIDEO]