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Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup

Y Combinator · talk · Watch on YouTube

Startups & entrepreneurship

What it is

A 16-minute Y Combinator Startup School talk in which Sam Altman lays out what makes a startup succeed. It covers building a product people tell friends about, exponential markets, real versus fake trends, and having an ambitious vision.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the single Startup School video worth watching, a short and dense talk on what makes a startup work; one commenter dismisses it as platitudes.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you watch one SUS video ever then watch this 16 minute video from Sam Altman”

    16 minute Altman talk, the one to watch from Startup School

    davej, 2019-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Applications Are Now Open for YC Startup School – Starts in January”

  2. “plainly covers why this is so”

    Short Altman talk on what a startup is

    karmakaze, 2019-06 · Recommendation · in “Startup idea checklist”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: startups, y combinator, sam altman, product-market fit, founders

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