The 5 things that kill startups after their seed rounds with Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator

[@davetheman2615]

Michael this is by far one of the best talks, you have given, really hit those areas us start ups struggle with. Many thanks.

[@vishnu439]

Cofounder conflict No product market fit Stalling innovation and product development Treating investor as a boss

[@xyzabc123-o1l]

absolute king

[@aravinduk1133]

Thanks a lot, Michael, Our whole startup is referring to the information you provide through youtube videos, especially the one you made which explained what makes the top10% founders, please keep doing this ..it helps a lot of people than anyone can ever imagine.

[@jihoonkang7697]

Totally agree

[@Sara_MAllen]

I WISH I listened to this years ago!

[@Monascomedy]

Michael is always on point!! Love these talks❤

[@davidpalmer7952]

Amazing. Coming from a non technical background this advice is priceless

[@williamkennedy6884]

The knowledge that Michael drops is still relevant today. He know what he is talking about.

[@guardiangamerinc.786]

15 min of time well spend , listen now for the second time...Thanks Michael

[@thomas-sinkala]

Thank you Michael.

[@pablomaino7005]

Just met you Michael and it was in the perfect time. I'm starting a startup and your video gave me a lot of insights that maybe will change some paths that we had decided. You opened our eyes. Congratulations for the video and for the time you invested sharing those valuable informations. Let's win from the competition right now!

[@008loloy]

Thank you very much Michael. You are THE real educator!

[@EveryBudiAmerica]

This has to be the most helpful video by Mr. Seibel that I've seen so far. Thank you, Michael.

[@Saastr]

Glad it was helpful! It was really great. He'll be back at 2023 SaaStrAnnual.com in Sep, too!

[@EveryBudiAmerica]

@@Saastr Great!

[@sponkmcdonk3898]

Wow. Hitting every point.

[@BM-jt6dv]

This is the most valuable video I have ever watched

[@carlosfernandes3190]

thanks for sharing Michael!!

[@abdullahalzandani3186]

God bless you Michael.

[@communitygearbox5655]

This is brilliant! Appreciate you pointing a finger towards these key problems and how overcome them.

[@efedegirmenci]

Extraordinary speech! Experience is speaking;

[@mbakayaw6124]

this has been greatly humbling and has probably saved me

[@abdurrahmanhalis]

This is pure gold. Thanks

[@monicamanifestor3777]

Michael, I needed to hear what you had to say TODAY! I hope you continue this endeavor and I hope to communicate with you directly soon.

[@suelin7278]

Impressive and valuable

[@Eltonlin1998]

So underrated, I recently raised a seed round and have experienced strongly 3 of the problems you mentioned

[@DawoodIddris]

This was a great advice. Absolutely practical ❤️

[@alvaromd3203]

Fantastic talk.

[@VictorY-mu6zp]

I should have seen this video 3 years ago! Great content

[@jleung213]

Very informative, thank you

[@AnomalyHQ]

"Know that you're going to be bad hiring" So true!

[@bigbanknewyork3655]

Outstanding advice

[@AlMamun-w4h7n]

Thanks Michael

[@brendalai6849]

About extraordinary engineers and how they never say "I've never done it before" - same thing goes for extraordinary cofounders or employees. But the downside for this that you need to be open with mistakes and failures. Especially for engineers, if they are doing something they've never done before, chances are they'll make mistakes, but since they are not intimidated by it they will get back up quickly and do it again.

[@eliaslouw6400]

Hi michael your rock thank you

[@JaydenLawson]

That was amazing

[@wafflescheeto]

i loved this

[@alexanderlisovoy2125]

Thank you!)

[@swish6143]

Great insights.

[@rockinraygibson8590]

Some good advice; logical

[@abhai-1996]

Starts at 1:20

[@G44984]

Thanks

[@ib_concept]

Thanks. ..

[@vasudevddn98]

I wanna cry

[@JinayShah]

He's looking at a different version of slides with all the 4 or 5 or 6 sub points laid out. He should have shared that on the screen, that would make for better retention

[@benholmquist3589]

Common symptom of impending death 😂

[@shaportov]

💪🏻

[@El_Diablo_12]

12:20 don’t give them power over you. All they can do is use words. They’re not gonna come beat you up or take your wife away from you.

[@JackBeNimble-fb1fn]

Building revenue in a startup has a cost (cost of sales) & takes a physical effort from sales people. Hard to do while you're still concept tweaking, but without revenue you have no business. No value.

[@banditonehundred]

“Talk to your investors” may not be the best advice all the time, especially if they are focused on short term returns

[@thedesigner388]

100% incorrect about KPIs. I guarantee KPIs are different at 50k, 5million, 500 million and 5 billion independent of industry. Software SASS people are hilarious. 0% need to have a technical co-founder ever.

[@shobhitraj4692]

toooo boring like college lectures 😭😭

[@somyevirmani5428]

Don't watch it then?

[@FPSMcduck]

Everything this guy says is GOLD🪙🪙🪙