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  1. This is life changing advice! Keep up the good work YC!
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  2. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro 00:09 - Did we make something people want? 00:43 - Cohort Retention 01:42 - About me 02:31 - Key Insight: Why cohort retention? 02:54 - 3 variables to define 03:15 - Group cohorts 03:58 - Actions to quality as active user? 04:31 - Examples 05:21 - Best action to pick. 05:34 - Define the time period you want to measure this? 06:47 - Actual example where time period is measured 10:29 - What is good? 11:55 - The only thing that matters: Does the curve get flat? 14:49 - Avoid retention measurement mistakes 17:21 - Counterintuitive action: Paying users 18:43 - Looking at a single point 19:43 - Caution: Using analytics tools 21:27 - Ways to improve the curve 22:30 - Acquire better users 23:50 - Slice cohorts by different dimensions 24:41 - Improve the first user experience 25:24 - Have a network effect 26:07 - Holy grail: Curves that go up 26:43 - Conclusion 28:22 - Cohort retention doesn't replace talking to users 29:05 - Outro
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  3. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:14 - Intro 00:21 - Hype Cycles: Where is my AI revolution? 01:33 - Customer Service 03:58 - Developers 05:00 - Internet Research 05:52 - Gig Economy to Profound Impact 07:18 - Revisionist History 08:32 - Startup Innovation 09:35 - Outro
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  4. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro 00:17 - All-time best email outreach hack 00:36 - How to get warm intros? 01:16 - Cold emails are unavoidable, but most are ineffective. 01:47 - First focus: Map out your funnel. 02:31 - Work backward from your goal to build your funnel. 03:59 - Begin manual, personalized emails before automation. 05:10 - Expect conversion rates to drop as you scale. 06:19 - Screen recipients will see 07:49 - Finding stranger's email 08:48 - Early-stage outreach relies on your personal brand. 09:52 - How to get more responses? 7 principles of effective email copy 10:12 - Keep emails focused on a single, clear outcome. 11:14 - Be human 13:44 - Personalize 16:19 - Keep it short 17:03 - Establish credibility 18:10 - All about the reader, not you 20:01 - Have a clear call to action 20:50 - Summary 21:21 - One email is not enough: Follow-up 22:12 - Let's see some examples - Not effective 22:37 - Example 1 23:35 - Example 2 24:41 - Example 3 25:46 - Good examples 27:17 - Example 2 29:12 - Example 3: Before and After 30:59 - Final Advice 32:29 - Outro
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  5. This is by far the best YC video
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  6. This was so great. Dr. Watts is charming and eloquent. Her heart-felt dedication and interest with this research comes through loud and clear.
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  7. Thank you Sam Altman in particular, and YCombinator in general for the effort you are putting into this MOOC. THIS IS GOLD ♥ ♥
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  8. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Introduction 00:20 - Outline 00:44 - Do things that don't scale 02:17 - Startup curve 03:40 - Founders should learn how to do sales 05:07 - Brex (YC W2017) 06:38 - How to write a great sales email 08:45 - The sales funnel 10:41 - Your first customer should be your easiest 13:50 - Charging your first customer 15:24 - Working backwards from your goal 18:18 - Sales and go-to-market strategy 19:29 - YC emails that led to customers 19:51 - Summary 20:08 - Resources - Tools and books 21:28 - Non scalable way to SEM and SEO
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  9. I recently moved back to San Francisco from Miami after 4 years away. My first week back I shed a couple tears because it felt like home and finally I found my people again - the builders, the people willing to stay up working, coding, talking about business. I felt seen.
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  10. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 0:00 Coming Up 0:54 What models get unlocked with the biggest venture round ever? 5:35 Some discoveries take a long time to actually be felt by regular people 9:53 Distillation may be how most of us benefit 14:26 o1 making previously impossible things possible 21:17 The new Googles 23:47 o1 makes the GPU needs even bigger 25:44 Voice apps are fast growing 27:05 Incumbents aren’t taking these innovations seriously 31:52 Ten trillion parameters 33:15 Outro
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  11. Jarvis Johnson, a family company
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  12. As a first-time founder it has seemed daunting learning everything from scratch. All of these YC videos have been super helpful! Applied to the Winter 2023 batch to hopefully learn more at that next level. Thanks guys! 👊
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  13. I love this series. Keep them coming. This is my favorite content on this channel.
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  14. best talk so far. Very informative.
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  15. There's been a tsunami of DeepSeek videos recently, but this video stood out for its quality research and presentation. Excellent job, well done!
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  16. Please bring her back a million times
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  17. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - JustinTV (Twitch now) make a lot of mistakes but the things that allowed them to survive 03:50 - What problem are you solving? 05:31 - Can you state the problem clearly? 05:45 - Have you experienced it yourself? 06:12 - Can you define your problem narrowly? 07:02 - Is the problem solvable? 10:11 - Who is your customer? 10:23 - Everyone? (no!) 11:30 - How often do they have the problem? 13:50 - How intense is the problem? 15:07 - Are they willing to pay? 17:05 - How easy are they to find? 18:39 - Does your MVP actually solve the problem? 21:10 - Which customers should you go after first? (the easy ones!) 24:25 - Which customers should you run away from? (the hard ones!) 25:46 - Should you discount or start with a super low price? (no!) 27:58 - How to setup metrics 28:15 - Google Analytics + Something else 29:36 - Pick 5-10 important stats 31:13 - Make measurements a part of product spec 32:02 - Product Development Cycle (v1) 36:11 - KPI Goal 37:52 - Brainstorm 39:01 - Easy/Medium/Hard 40:50 - Decide 41:35 - Written Spec 43:44 - Pivot vs Iterate 44:43 - Pivot = Changing the customer and/or changing the problem (rare) 44:59 - Iterate = changing the solution (common) 46:09 - Fake Steve Jobs vs Real Steve Jobs (how not to be a product dictator) 48:04 - Summary - Find the right customers, ask specific what they want, and make it. 51:06 - Question 1 - Should you be going free if the final idea for the product is to be free? 52:27 - Question 2 - KPI is revenue and the number is zero, should you still be tracking that as your top line KPI? 53:50 - Question 3 - Hardware company pre-launch pre-sales tips? 54:29 - Question 4 - Hardest part of having a slow burn? 55:26 - Question 5 - Beta to early MVP? 56:51 - Question 6 - How do one figure out what feature to build next? 58:09 - Outro
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  18. Bring more physicists please
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  19. The content is so well organized and easy to understand. Keep up the great podcast!
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  20. I swear MKBHD has always been one of the most genuine and down to earth people around. He deserves every bit of his success. 👍
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  21. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro 00:14 - How to Pick What's Important to Work On 01:06 - Finding Your Tribe: Advice on selecting who you are working with 02:52 - How to accomplish big things? 03:40 - Work life balance in your 20's 05:26 - How to Make a Decision About When to Give Up 07:29 - What's the source of motivation for people? 08:36 - Have you noticed the change in what motivates you? 09:10 - Burnout vs Momentum 10:20 - Taking risks and how should people think about it differently 12:50 - Asking what you want and being aggressive 14:39 - Long term willingness to hold on to things 17:22 - Have You Got a Strong Opinion About Things? Or Just Iterating 17:41 - Strong opinion and be flexible at the details 19:55 - Advice for young people 21:06 - Outro
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  22. People who don't know Marques, let me tell you, he's one of the nicest people you'll ever see on YouTube.
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  23. Instagram only had 13 employees when they hit a $1B valuation and that was pre crazy inflation.. you guys should know this. What will be impressive w AI is a billion dollar company w 1 or 2 founders only
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  24. I love these talks. Please keep them coming!
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  25. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: New AI model in town 01:45 - DeepSeek's V3 model to R1 02:32 - How DeepSeek optimized for efficiency? 03:45 - FP8 GPUs utilization 04:20 - How Nvidia helps AI researchers 07:33 - DeepSeek Secret Sauce: Reinforcement Learning 10:22 - R1 results 11:44 - Reproducible results and room for improvement 12:34 - Big Takeaway 12:48 - First YC spring batch
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  26. Thanks for putting this video out. Now I don't need to explain this to people, I can just forward this video.
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  27. I love these guys. I wish I could adopt them as my uncles.
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  28. The biggest thing I get from these talks is a sort of cultural understanding about how to think about problems
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  29. y'all feel how yc just drops gold everytime for those who are so far out on the other side of the world
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  30. "Deferred life plan" discussion was eye-opening. Great talk. Thanks!
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  31. I freaking love this series!! Keep the videos coming!
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  32. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:29 - Intro 01:40 - Building a successful vertical AI company 06:05 - The unique challenges of law and AI 09:24 - The turning point for lawyers with ChatGPT 11:25 - Finding product market fit in legal 15:04 - Entering deep founder mode 20:40 - Approaching prompt engineering step by step 25:05 - Going beyond GPT wrappers 28:10 - Aiming for 100% accuracy 30:48 - Thoughts on o1’s capabilities 36:42 - Outro
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  33. Best yc interview ever. Very cool guy with clear communication to details.
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  34. You can kickstart and run a whole startup based on the advice from these YC videos
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  35. Great job Kirsty and thank you YC! Keep putting out more of this gold!
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  36. 1:45 "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever is left no matter how improbable, must be the truth." By Sherlock Holmes, a fictional forensic detective created in 1887 by Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 - 1930 )
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  37. You’re the best Michael. Thanks for giving us your wisdom you acquired the hard way. You help not only the top entrepreneurs you meet at YC but also second rate ones like me who just want to create something useful.
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  38. That’s brilliant, all founders need to watch this to better understand the game
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  39. YC is killing these days with their video creation speed. Keep them coming❤
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  40. super proud Jarvis is featured here!!! great interview!!! much love J!!!
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  41. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro 00:12 - The early days of Facebook? 02:17 - Did you think Facebook was going to be a company when you started? 03:16 - Something that made Facebook different from other projects that you built? 04:26 - Advice that you give to other people that want to build products? 05:37 - Hardest parts in the history of Facebook? 09:25 - Have you thought about selling the company? 09:37 - How to decide what to build? 11:54 - What about bigger bets like making a large acquisition or rollout news feed? 14:35 - Do you recommend companies put in place a growth group? 15:52 - Impact of growth group on the growth rate of Facebook? 16:32 - How have you hired your team and what do you look for? 17:24 - If you don't have the experience how do you assess someone's raw talent? 19:05 - What are you most excited about over the next 20 years? 22:26 - I'm 19 today, what should I do to impact the world? 23:06 - How far into Facebook did it become a company? 24:20 - What's the best piece of advice Peter gave you? 25:24 - Outro
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  42. Great content for any founder.
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  43. Diana this is awesome - thanks for taking the time to make it!
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  44. Amazing talk! I feel much more empowered after seeing how Tim became who he is, through this talk. A key takeaway for me from this talk is: anyone, with enough curiosity and good amount reading and questioning can become good at most toughest of the concepts.
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  45. Seibel the Sage... amazing advice as always.
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  46. 5:33 "other than iglowstick.... which always will bother me" 😂😂
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  47. AWesome video. NO other deepseek coverage covers this much in depth concise content in under 15 mins
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  48. First time watching this channel, very impressed at the level of insight in this conversation. I finished this video more intelligent than I was when I started it. Well done
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  49. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - YC 2024 Fall Batch 00:41 - Intro 00:55 - How To Influence People In The Room? 01:02 - The Rooms 02:16 - Your Brand 02:59 - Time With You 04:19 - Energy 04:47 - Culture 06:37 - Track Record 08:22 - Heart 09:45 - Investor Attachment 10:37 - Desperation 11:51 - Game That Repeats Itself
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  50. Because of Paystack, barriers to starting a business in Nigeria dropped more than half
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