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May 2021 "There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable pers... (2021)

December 2019 There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. Intentional moderates are trimmers, deliberate... (2020)

Nietzsche - Follow No One, Trust Yourself (2022)

The Four Quadrants of Conformism - Paul Graham essay July 2020 One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggress... (2022)

I’ve always been weird, but at this point in my life I feel like I understand non-weird people quite well.  If you’re still baffled, my weird frien... (2020)

Front's CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin shares why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision, unveiling her own best practices and templat... (2018)

Michael Seibel on pitching customers vs pitching investors. Michael is CEO and a Partner at YC. He was the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Soci... (2019)

Fortune recently did a big profile on Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase and in concert with that, they made this v... (2018)

Working through them can result in a gem. (2016)

It’s called reverse thinking. (2017)

TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley (2018)

After being lied to and kept in the dark at previous companies, CEO Mathilde Collin decided she’d give her staff total access to everything. (2018)

We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what they were doing at the time and not enough on what they could do, ... (2018)

Encourage a growth mindset. (2019)

One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten years ago. ... (2019)

Nonobvious markets can lead to hypergrowth, but they’re hard to spot in the moment. Leaning on his experience as a seasoned investor and operator, ... (2019)

How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else with Lynne Tye of Key Values After spending years pursuing a career in science, Lynne T... (2019)

Think business is all about rational thought and logic? Think again -- and to find the biggest, best ideas, start thinking way outside the box. (2019)

Four ways to combat the chaos that seems to happen at every startup when they reach the “teenager stage” of more than 50 employees. (2019)

Joining a startup can be a great financial opportunity; but picking the right ones is hard. More than anything, you need to avoid zombies. (2018)

One thing that separates great startup pitches from merely good ones isn’t always a better business model or a more compelling product. It’s the st... (2019)

Two studies reveal two reasons. (2019)

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any idea... (2020)

Keith Rabois & James Currier examine how technology's greatest startups deviate from the standard Silicon Valley "playbook". (2020)

October 2020 One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an i... (2020)

November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, fo... (2020)