Before the Startup with Paul Graham (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 3)

How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014.
Lecture Transcript: www.tech.genius.com/Paul-graha...
Paul Graham delivers an informative (and highly amusing) talk, addressing counterintuitive parts of startups, in Lecture 3 of How to Start a Startup.
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[@MoniCastApp]

It does not matter when you are listening to this lecture, it will be always relevant and insightful. PG's essays are engaging!

[@denzelmosore]

Insightful, exciting, focused, fun and inspiring. PG is just great.

[@earlrobinson8579]

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[@sawaria123]

Voice of Graham itself is soothing. Excellent presentation in a witty way.

[@mylesbuckley9675]

His test for "a taste for genuinely interesting problems" is genius. It explains so much.

[@surethebest]

Thank you Paul Graham! So much value in a few minutes. Cheers from Paris

[@Kingromstar]

Such great advice. 1: be a domain expert 2: be voraciously curious.

[@brianpeterbroderick]

This guy has great vibe. -"I'm self indulgent. I like working on interesting problems."

[@rhondamthomas6500]

As a start-up founder in the Caribbean this is excellent - content and humor. Wish I can get more of this and more of Paul Graham. Well done.

[@tristanmoller9498]

Sounds interesting! What‘s your start up?

[@elijahtrenton8351]

Same

[@adamlee9347]

PG! I watch this video every threee months

[@ssamiuddin1]

Wise as ever, and a quicker wit than most stand-up comedians! :)

[@AmericazGotTalentYT]

yes he's british

[@nimishjha9993]

"Because there's a lot of people who are really good at seeming likeable for a while. Just wait 'til your interests are opposed and then you'll see."

[@truezafar]

That was a great comment

[@margaretcezar1109]

He is full of wisdom. I didn't know that good sense of humor can go well together with it. 🤣

[@PremKumar-zj7ur]

Humm..this 48 minutes is better insightful than 2 years of MBA course! Fucking brilliant

[@youfi6430]

Liked it. Very reasonable, focus on developing a great product that people want to use, and make the numbers speak for you! The rest you could worry about it later.

[@slaveofallah6452]

I started a vending machine business last year as a side job while I am employed to a corporate world. Now I rely more on my earnings in my vending machine business.

[@pjimenezb]

Paul Graham is pure gold

[@barbarosozturk]

Absolutely amazing lecture!

[@romancandlefight1144]

Liked the honesty especially on that last point - startups are essentially firefights against problems and there are huge advantages to hiring people you know and like rather than a "diverse" mix to cover some theoretical blindspots

[@devanshrana4564]

watching this in pandemic in 2020 and 37:44 hit me so hard

[@hyunseoksohn4165]

Paul GraUhmm

[@vrushabhchotalia8861]

underrated comment right here^

[@maxbooth179]

He's getting a bit Paul grey-humm too

[@thomas-sinkala]

Educational & fun to listen to.

[@raymondwilson293]

i um love this guy! he's so nice.

[@zink5664]

One of my favaourite talks

[@ozzyfromspace]

His ummms are not neutral, you either love it or you hate it 😂

[@truezafar]

Love it!

[@LasVegasSand_s]

you said it lol

[@davyroger3773]

Its like Zizek's lisp

[@neanda]

now that you've said it, i can't stop hearing it, thank you 😠

[@ozzyfromspace]

@@neanda lol you’re welcome mate 😂

[@tradingpsychologist]

Wish i found this earlier. Amazing video

[@stefan-bayer]

Currently in the progress of starting my own startup with a 3D printed product. After 47 iterations and half an year I hope futur customers will like it.

[@margaretcezar2413]

I love the humms, it comes with a valuable package. 😄😄💗💗

[@manikagarg9239]

Content is GREAT so insightful and funny

[@insideoflife2962]

i am not agree with you like this kzbin.infoEGJhnxNqXEU?feature=share

[@livia-alicedolle3804]

so valid even 7y later love it 🙆🏽‍♀️

[@alanramirez472]

If I got a dollar for every “umm”, I could fund my bioTech startup. Btw, we love you Paul!

[@user-yv7pj4cu9e]

he is honest guy

[@adamhanninen8295]

Last of the Q&A bit was real

[@usasuteelaxnaporn8557]

Haha from Thailand and would welcome anyone to backpack when covid is over!

[@dimitrijmaslov1209]

Thanks!

[@dr.vedantgosavi1936]

Paul thanks for making me realize my Bullshit Mistakes! Really Grateful and Blessed To Have You 💛🙏 Mastery in understanding users is the secret! Everything else comes to you easily

[@insideoflife2962]

wow why you are so nasty like this kzbin.infoEGJhnxNqXEU?feature=share

[@ourlegacy8894]

Notice how Graham speaks - feels like he is reading from a script but it's just how clear he thinks

[@jpip361]

36:45 If I was that kid I would have just cried

[@glennrobinson198]

Thanks

[@michaelhirstny]

My take. Just start something that's interesting to you. You'll know when it's a thing.

[@_johnakinola]

Tried to count how many times he said "Uhm" -- But jokes away, I learnt alot. Build something people want and tell them about it.

[@petersaikko1085]

Very interesting as you mention, of course. Nevertheless the uhm/hm errh etc kind of affected me so much I had difficulties to listen to the lecture. Specially when not watching and only listening. I think it is the US way to talk perhaps.

[@eugenioscafati7328]

gold.

[@jacobrafati4200]

Hi YC! None of the links on description works anymore

[@aescubed]

"So strangely enough, the optimal thing to do in college if you want to be a successful startup founder is not some new vocational version of college focussed on entrepreneurship, it's the classic version of college - its education for its own sake".

[@aleksandra1210]

Thank you for this Talk!

[@ozzyfromspace]

I'm working on a pure-tech project, not a startup, & I'm 24 right now. I'm basically living his advice. Lol "do things that don't scale". Way ahead of you, Paul 😂

[@xLightcrystalx]

How did it go?

[@DarthVader-gp4kr]

@@xLightcrystalx this simple words cause so much pain if the project failed 😂

[@nzsb8438]

Dr. Paul Grahummm

[@alihabib6621]

Imagine being PG’s kid. You can literally ask anything you want anytime you want.

[@kireetidannasi2495]

Startup ideas 24:30

[@alanramirez472]

Maybe you can ask somebody to turn it on

[@jinettew.3192]

And he’s wearing ski goggles

[@rlhugh]

"God, this things being recorded. I just realized that!" [holds head in hands].

[@chenjus]

24:20-31:05 Mixed optimization BFS then DFS, or in RL exploration-exploitation tradeoff, or more broadly non-objective-based optimization and objective-based optimization. More people need to read Kenneth Stanley's Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective.

[@drugli.official]

Podcasting is a business today lol

[@tomgrigory367]

Oops. Links aren't working.

[@soumen_das]

Check your browser history and bookmarks. You would know what are you most interested in.

[@Lee-qj4hk]

I wish I had £1 every time PG says umm

[@chenjus]

7:20 class act. XD

[@m.k.s.7417]

Could people ('we') =support_ "Indigenous_Australasians"; in business ("Enterprise" etc.) ("Entrepreneurship"/"Entrepreneurialism" etc.) and if so; then how so?? -(M.K.S.).

[@simonstclare]

Somebody should made a video just of all those ummms joined together

[@doug2731]

There was no need to berate the kid who asked about a bubble. Yes, it's off-topic but you're literally talking to old kids/barely grown adults. Cut the dude a break.

[@morthim]

"you don't see running instructor as much as skiing instructor" but you see a running coach more than skiing instructor.

[@jeromehealy]

I've watched 2 talks from Stanford and in both some guy has been coughing like crazy the whole time. Maybe he should just watch the goddamn talk online too.

[@nicholascimato6088]

Hum. Hum. Hum.

[@stealthoverflow]

No one PG - "Huhhumm"

[@mulatto401]

Hahummmm

[@TeazYou]

xD

[@radkhan5233]

aamm

[@stasantokhi6469]

Uhmmm

[@subhadeepsarkar4777]

Am I the only one who wants to start a start up but have no real idea?

[@thequestion3953]

This whole video is the answer to that problem. 1. Learn a lot about things that matter (e.g. become good at some technology) 2. Work on things that stretch you 3. Work on problems that interest you 4. With people you like and respect 5. Learn powerful things People interested in tech have an unhealthy obsession with starting a start-up. If you do the things Paul said in this lecture, they may not lead you to a startup but I can guarantee it will lead you to do work you enjoy, with people you like, on world changing ideas, whilst making decent money... start-up or no start-up is a moot point when those things are fulfilled.

[@Musicmotivated]

That bubble question. Great question, terrible answer!

[@jaked5947]

His "Uhmm" sounds like he's just revealed a truth that he now regrets sharing.

[@Doglapan_Pro]

Snapchat founder is there

[@jmigsan]

:)

[@doug2731]

Hummmm~~~

[@laboratoriya]

We have 28 stupids so far.

[@MB561]

Hummm every 5 seconds? It's hard to listen to despite the good content. How can he not have fixed that by now? This is a rhterorical question for all the dummies out there.

[@dr.gerhardrentsch3474]

"Hummm clinic" as a business venture aka start-up

[@Thejazdhillon1]

Valueable info but his stupid hummmmm’s makes it boring

[@alphabetter22]

This is very informative but, Stanford hired this dude to discourage college kids no not start their start up

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[@mustno3]

Nope ... had to stop because of his stupid hummms

[@MassimoTodaro74]

Waaay too much generalization - sorry. In statistic is "Sample Frame Error". For example at 3:02 "I wish we had listened": what about the times you don't listen to an advice and things turn out just fine? Have you accounted for those? Or again how many times you don't really like something about a person but in the end things work out fine? You counting those outputs or just when things go wrong? And, really really sorry, but since I am a runner and you don't seem to be one, you should maybe ask yourself why is it that so many people who were "runners" end up with their knees or backs completely screwed up? because they never thought of having a running coach!! they though that just because they knew how to walk then they could run. There is a LOT of technique that goes into running. The fact that there are not enough running coaches relative to skiing coaches has nothing to do with one being "intuitive" and the other not.

[@Handelburg]

wat

[@adamlee9347]

Do you really think you are smarter than Graham?

[@davidkomlah8336]

hater alert!!

[@3kleft]

You're right.