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You sell some really expensive stuff. Take us through the process of how you sell it. It takes many, many years of building that network because the network is key. You have to get to know people who have these assets, and you have to convince them to gi…

Once they were giants. Now, their jokes from FTL trading to Kylie Cosmetics, Theranos, and beyond. We can learn a thing or two from businesses that scaled quickly and came crashing down faster than you can say billionaire. Some of these companies are stil…

Foreign [Music] I’m Brad Flora. I’m a group partner here at YC, and I’m going to be talking about how startup fundraising works today. Like I said, I’m a group partner at YC, and what that means is that I read applications, I interview the startups that …

Okay, so stop me if you’ve heard this one: a rabbi, a pastor, and an imam walk to a bar. Okay, so it wasn’t a bar; it was a diner to discuss my show, “The Story of God,” about the apocalypse. So the rabbi says, “Share with me a little bit about how the I…

So it’s very likely that you have different financial goals over different amounts of time. For example, you are likely, or maybe you should have, long-term financial goals. Long-term financial goals are like: I want to make sure I have enough money for r…

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. A few years ago in Minneapolis, an angry dad stormed into the retail store Target. His daughter, a high schooler, had been receiving coupons in the mail from the store for things like cribs and diapers. Was Target encouraging hi…