How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)

So today I’m going to talk about good ideas that look like bad ideas. There’s a great, my clicker is not working, sorry, technical problems there. Okay, thanks, oops. So there’s a great PG blog post where he talks about Peter Thiel came to talk and said …

What’s up you guys, it’s Graham here! So, as many of you know, I have this thing for talking about investments. For some reason, it’s what I’ve been obsessed with doing over the last decade. Like, I wake up early in the morning, I make myself some 20-cent…

We talked about the dissemination of information being a force of convergence on the global scale, but what about on the individual scale? When we’re talking about knowledge dissemination on an individual scale, we’re really talking about education on som…

This is green. This is red. And this is blue. But how can you tell that what you’re seeing as blue is the exact same thing as what I see as blue? We’ve named the colors to give us a way to communicate and reference them, but in reality, there’s no way of …

Gaining respect and moving things along requires confidence. Today’s world moves quickly, and decisions are made in the blink of an eye. The last thing you need in such a cutthroat world is to undercut yourself, but that’s what many of us do when we commu…

When you look around you at all of the structures in place, like the physical buildings, the transportation system, the laws and rules for society, all of these things were created by people. Everyone has a choice to either live in that world and merely f…