Lecture 14 - How to Operate (Keith Rabois)

less than 1m read

·Nov 5, 2024

So I'm going to talk about how to operate. I've watched some of the prior classes, and I'm going to assume that you've already sort of hired a bunch of relentlessly resourceful people, that you built a product that at least some people love, that you probably raised some capital, and now you're trying to build a company. So you've been forging a product, and now you've got to forge a company.

Actually, I argue forging a company is much more difficult than forging a product. The basic reason is people are irrational. You probably all know this—either your parents, your significant other, your brother or sister, your teacher, somebody in your life is irrational. Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know, putting them in one building, and then living with them 12 hours a day at least.

So it's very

MMOs in the Instagram Era: Highrise (S18) - YC Gaming Tech Talks 2020

Proof: parallel lines have the same slope | High School Math | Khan Academy

View All

Life Below the Ocean Surface | StarTalk

So you know that’s a fish. Oh, that’s cool. He’s cute, or she. You can’t even tell. But what is that fish thinking? Is it like— is it nostalgia? Is it rage? Maybe I’m just projecting. But you can’t really tell what it’s thinking. It’s a mystery. It’s an e…

The Theme Park Duopoly That Can't Be Stopped

[Music] Theme parks, there’s nobody on earth that doesn’t like them. Take the family, ride some rides, buy some merch, eat some food, have some fun. But despite being a bit of a novelty experience you might have, you know, once or twice a decade, these th…

Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage

So why don’t we jump into accountability, which I thought was pretty interesting, and I think you have your own unique take on it. The first tweet on accountability was, “Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will rew…

Kevin O’Leary Reacts To My $10 Million Dollar Investment | Shark Tank

They’ll sell you out in two seconds. You will pay a brutal price for that. Never do that. Never, never, never, never. They loved their lifestyle. They went to zero. You must be ready to absolutely write that off because there’s a 50-50 chance you will. W…

How AI, Like ChatGPT, *Really* Learns

The main video is talking about a genetic breeding model of how to make machines learn. This method is simpler to explain or just show. Here is a machine learning to walk, or play Mario, or jump really high. A genetic code is an older code, but it still c…

Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus

Very recently, scientists discovered that your body is teeming with trillions of the most bizarre viruses. These viruses are not your enemies but critical to your health, protecting you from disease, maybe even killing cancer. A new frontier of science, s…

Lecture 14 - How to Operate (Keith Rabois)

More Articles