yego.me
yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Advice For Young Entrepreneurs

less than 1m read
·Nov 3, 2024
Processing might take a few minutes. Refresh later.

When young entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I generally tell them to optimize for their alumni network. Your future determinant of success will be most determined by who you are surrounded with. These people will force you to up your game. They'll be your future co-founders, they'll be your future customers, they'll be your feedback engine, they'll be your financiers, and they'll be the peer group from which you absorb, which you work with, and which you strive against.

So, I would say optimize for the alumni network. Very often, that advice will then lead you to moving towards a startup hub, working with highly technical people, working with young people, and even in universities—going to hacker clubs, going into STEM classes, and going to hacker houses and meetups and boot camps. Just optimize for who you're going to be around.

You want to be around the absolute smartest, most driven people possible. That will determine your career trajectory and your eventual outcome more than any other single factor that you haven't already considered.

Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
Principles for Success: "The Abyss" | Episode 4

More Articles

View All
The Stock Market's Valuation is Getting Ridiculous...
It’s no secret that the stock market is currently overvalued, but what should we as investors do about it? I have a look at this chart, which is tracking a metric called the Shiller PE. This metric was created by the American economist Robert Shiller, who…
Limits at infinity of quotients with trig (limit undefined) | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
Let’s see if we can figure out what the limit of ( x^2 + 1 ) over ( \sin(x) ) is as ( x ) approaches infinity. So let’s just think about what’s going on in the numerator and then think about what’s going on in the denominator. In the numerator, we have (…
What it means if you can see faces in objects - Susan G. Wardle
Imagine opening a bag of chips only to find Santa Claus looking back at you. Or turning the corner to see a smile as wide as a building. Humans see faces in all kinds of mundane objects, but these faces aren’t real—they’re illusions due to a phenomenon kn…
How "Rude" New Yorkers Treated One Muslim Woman after Trump's Election | Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
The day after the elections and a completely unforeseen outcome, I think for a lot of us in New York City we felt like we were walking under this pall of confusion and somberness and just trying to make sense of what had just happened. And for me as a Mus…
Tiger Shark Database | World's Biggest Tiger Shark?
NARRATOR: Next day, back in the Polynesian town of Papetoai, they visit an expert who ID sharks by their fins. So we were hoping to see if you could look through some of your databases. NARRATOR: Shark scientist Nicolas Buray keeps a photo archive of Tah…
Molarity | Intermolecular forces and properties | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy
In this video, we’re going to talk about one of the most common ways to measure solute concentration in a solution, and that is molarity. Molarity is defined as the number of moles of solute (the thing that we are dissolving in a solvent) divided by the l…