ABOUT THIS EPISODEThe price that bleeds your business could also save it. When you invent something innovative, you can’t know how to price it on day one. First, get people in the door — get a LOT of people in the door — even if you have to price your product fatally low at first.… Continue reading Masters of Scale : 19. How to price your product to scale, w/ClassPass’ Payal Kadakia
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Greymatter : Getting Smart About Growth with Casey Winters & Uber’s Andrew Chen | Greymatter
ABOUT THIS EPISODEGetting Smart About Growth with Casey Winters & Uber’s Andrew Chen | GreymatterAre B2C companies starting to see a decline in viral growth responsiveness? That’s what Greylock’s Growth Advisor Casey Winters and Head of Rider Growth at Uber, Andrew Chen believe. Andrew coined the term The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs to describe the… Continue reading Greymatter : Getting Smart About Growth with Casey Winters & Uber’s Andrew Chen | Greymatter
Village Global’s Venture Stories : Episode #14: How To Recruit, Assess, and Retain The Best People For Your Startup With Keith Rabois and Jack Altman
ABOUT THIS EPISODEErik talks to Keith Rabois (@rabois), Managing Director at Khosla Ventures and Jack Altman (@jaltma), CEO and co-founder of Lattice. Keith and Jack draw on their experience working at high-growth start-ups to explain how to attract the best people to your startup. They discuss how and when to hire and fire when you’re… Continue reading Village Global’s Venture Stories : Episode #14: How To Recruit, Assess, and Retain The Best People For Your Startup With Keith Rabois and Jack Altman
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch : 20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
ABOUT THIS EPISODESam Altman is the president of Y Combinator, the world’s most successful accelerator with alumni that includes the likes of Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Flexport and many more incredible companies. Sam is also the co-chair of OpenAI, thenon-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. Prior to YC,… Continue reading The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch : 20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
Y Combinator : #54 – Growth Office Hours: Round 2
ABOUT THIS EPISODE 54 – Growth Office Hours: Round 2 Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer are partners at YC. This episode is a follow-up to Anu’s Growth Guide and the first Growth Office Hours. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon. https://backtracks.fm/ycombinator/pr/6254477e-e032-11e7-990c-0e87db6004a4/54—growth-office-hours-round-2-with-with-anu-hariharan-and-gustaf-alstromer—y-combinator.mp3?s=1&sd=1&u=1514994507Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Y Combinator : #50 – Growth Office Hours with Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer
ABOUT THIS EPISODE 50 – Growth Office Hours with Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer are Partners at YC. This episode is a follow-up to Anu’s Growth Guide. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon. https://backtracks.fm/ycombinator/pr/2044caca-d2d6-11e7-8d3f-0e064e54b810/50—growth-office-hours-with-anu-hariharan-and-gustaf-alstromer—y-combinator.mp3?s=1&sd=1&u=1514994887Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Y Combinator : #48 – The Future of Bike Sharing with Ofo Cofounder Yanqi Zhang and Anu Hariharan
ABOUT THIS EPISODE 48 – The Future of Bike Sharing with Ofo Cofounder Yanqi Zhang and Anu Hariharan Yanqi Zhang is a cofounder and COO of Ofo. Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC. https://backtracks.fm/ycombinator/pr/19f03f84-c87b-11e7-878a-0e421d998c40/48—the-future-of-bike-sharing-with-ofo-cofounder-yanqi-zhang-and-anu-hariharan—y-combinator.mp3?s=1&sd=1&u=1510879832Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Y Combinator : #46 – Tencent’s Chief eXploration Officer, David Wallerstein on WeChat, QQ, and Gaming
ABOUT THIS EPISODE 46 – Tencent’s Chief eXploration Officer, David Wallerstein on WeChat, QQ, and Gaming David Wallerstein is Tencent’s Chief eXploration Officer. Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC. https://backtracks.fm/ycombinator/pr/bebafa26-c3ef-11e7-9e9f-0e31eee783ba/46—tencents-chief-exploration-officer-david-wallerstein-on-wechat-qq-and-gaming—y-combinator.mp3?s=1&sd=1&u=1510272428Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Masters of Scale : 11. Escape the competition, w/PayPal’s Peter Thiel
ABOUT THIS EPISODEIf you want to grow your business, your goal isn’t to beat the competition — it’s to escape the competition altogether. No one knows this better than PayPal founder Peter Thiel. His theory? “Competition is for losers.” Thiel is a former colleague, frequent co-investor and longtime intellectual sparring partner with host Reid Hoffman.… Continue reading Masters of Scale : 11. Escape the competition, w/PayPal’s Peter Thiel
Y Combinator : #45 – Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros – OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman
ABOUT THIS EPISODE 45 – Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros – OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman Greg Brockman is the CTO and cofounder of OpenAI. Szymon Sidor is a Research Scientist at OpenAI. Sam Altman is the President of Y Combinator and Co-Chairman of OpenAI. Watch their bot compete at The… Continue reading Y Combinator : #45 – Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros – OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman