Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups

[@DrTune]

No KZbin channel has ever given me as much quality knowledge as this one. What a gold mine! Thanks so much YC

[@goldnutter412]

Haha oh this place yep, keep it up I see this name sometimes and smile from my abstracted view Logic always wins. Evolution is relentless.. would only add "data not information" concepts but they always come up in the general message anyway, individuals and trust etc

[@albus6966]

Topics 00:14 - Why should an entrepreneur read the High Growth Handbook? 4:45 - On Marc Andreessen's comment, "The companies that charge more tend to grow faster." 6:00 - Myths about startups 7:00 - Leon Coe asks - What types of businesses do you avoid investing in? 8:30 - Things to just say 'no' to 11:50 - Companies that may be too early 14:02 - On Naval Ravikant's comment, "The most successful class of people in silicon valley on a consistent basis are either the venture capitalists, or people who are very good at identifying companies that have just hit product/market fit. They have the background, expertise, and references that those companies really want to help them scale." 16:51 - On Claire Hughes Johnson's "Guide to Working with Claire" 18:50 - Masud Hossain asks - How did most of the companies you interviewed get their first 10 customers? 20:05 - Masud Hossain asks - Is content really king? 22:00 - Narayan Mallapur asks - Where do founders make the most mistakes? Is it on hiring? What steps should they take to avoid these pitfalls? 24:05 - Brianne Kimmel asks - What are some lessons learned in highly regulated sectors? When should you hire a General Counsel? How do you prioritize public policy and lobbying efforts? 28:15 - Media cycles 30:05 - Marius Chawa asks - What are the top three things a startup "must" achieve before VC firms would line up to fund them? 33:55 - Taylor Caforio asks - My company is at our early MVP stage. What is he best way to find a balance between giving our earliest customers the 6 star treatment while also having swift and exponential growth in the back of our minds. 36:04 - Tanmay Khandelwal asks - When you are sprinting in growth stage, how do you predict engineers required and hire accordingly? 37:51 - TD Bryant II asks - When your organization is experiencing exponential growth, how do you choose which functions to outsource vs build/hire? 41:00 - Andrew Pikul asks - Who is your favorite Dragon Ball (Z/GT/Super) villain? Credits : www.ycombinator.com

[@nelsonc5339]

10:36 pool tables anecdote is insightful. The people who had time to play pool when the startup was in “free fall” obviously weren’t doing very much, so they would disappear. 16:50 “how to work with me” letter 29:24 you need to find better friends who are more supportive 32:00 Bootstrapping 34:00 MVP stage 40:54 Dragon ball Z 🤣

[@TAntonio]

This is possibly the most helpful episode yet for someone looking to join a startup. Awesome work Patrick. Can’t wait for the expo also!

[@goldnutter412]

Haha have to go but he started talking about a child.. you see a bigger world view no matter who you are.. haha that part ended nicely, anti aging sure, but just prolonging the inevitable 100% of us dies in this place. hahaha people who want to live forever are however a bit of a "careful what you wish for" and "anything" is possible is almost literal ! but.. alas aging shows change is constant and there is randomness inherent, something will always come up and asymmetry of getting more out of biology means a dead end approaches the more you chase it. Just like smashing open mother Earth in search of "truth" That never finds them true peace or happiness.. as much as they may hide it ! spot the people by their glowing happiness, and lack of ego is always relative.. a good question to ask people might be what are their 3 most recent moments where they felt any of sadness despair helpless etc.. these point to ego (except when it is empathy).. gauge it however you will, we all do it when we meet someone anyway, usually we gain most of what we need to know in the first.. i dont remember 15 seconds or something.. and beyond a minute or two of QUALITY interaction a lot of data is exchanged and interpreted.. Gap fillers indeed.. all of the positive comments are gap fillers in the new data economy... which is all of us. We are all specialists and a varying amount of generalist. If you can focus your mind, all it takes is focusing it on your strengths and letting the rest go. It is what it is, we have no power except choice.. good choices boil down to experience and who you really are eventually exposes itself as actually caring about people. You can't fake it to make it in the long run. Being genuine is the best advice, pair it with be open and skeptical, be very careful with "know".. questioning everything is the only way for a generalist but we should all have some of our time dedicated to.. well a lifetime seeking more learning What good would this place be if you couldn't learn.. being your GENUINE self (like you do in a dream) gives you feedback here. In a dream you get far deeper abstract breadcrumbs. No cheats in this game, if you fake it.. you just extend your own dissatisfaction. It has been obvious to most of us all along, but this line of discussion has been brewing lately ! because those up top realised long ago, we are all in this together :-)

[@julkiewitz]

The advice about China aged well with all the crackdown on private enterprise there recently as well as the legal uncertainty around VIE.

[@goldnutter412]

Didn't see it but China is an enigma A great watch is "China's new normal" some incredible stats in there, and insight. If I could remember the interview about the BSN with Sergey Nazarov I would. Only people who have been to China should really talk.. and only from their experiences. We should interpret those, not anything to do with big business. geopolitics.. so the media.. all media. Social media is so far from perfect it is damaging in many ways. Some good and bad is unseen except by those who are directly involved. The old saying about.. cleaning up your own backyard is very timely I would guess... I avoid this stuff as much as possible why ? same reason everyone should at least try to. Do not need to know basis. I can't know all the base learning to know what I need to know, to be qualified to comment. The media is a good tool ! it shows so clearly lately how much bias we all really have.

[@FreedomLovin]

"Lobbying"= bribing

[@julkiewitz]

Nope. "Right to repair" is an effect of lobbying. And it's a pro-consumer law. Did consumer rights' advocates bribe the state governments that passed it? No, they made their case by being extremely well prepared in hearings and having very compelling people testify. But that kind of level of expertise costs money like everything else in this world. Equating all lobbying to bribery is a completely useless oversimplification.

[@ProductGrower]

This aged well with AirTable

[@abhi-yt]

10:35 - Man, that side look he gives is very creepy! jk =) great interview, very informative.

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[@paolho]

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