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Lecture 16 - How to Run a User Interview (Emmett Shear)

All right. Uh, good afternoon. Today's guest speaker is Emmett Sheer. EMTT is the CEO of Twitch, which was acquired by Amazon, where he now …

Lecture 17 - How to Design Hardware Products (Hosain Rahman)

very exciting and thank you Sam uh for having me Sam and I have known each other for for a long time because we were fellow Sequoia companie…

Lecture 18 - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups (Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy)

General C chrisy and carollyn and they're going to talk about uh finance and legal Mechanics for startups um this is certainly not the most …

Lecture 19 - Sales and Marketing; How to Talk to Investors (Tyler Bosmeny; YC Partners)

keep talking okay great um so okay great thanks for having me so my name is Tyler I'm the CEO of clever and what I want to talk today is abo…

Lecture 20 - Later-stage Advice (Sam Altman)

yeah all right all right uh good afternoon and welcome to the last class of how to start a startup so this is a little bit different than ev…

Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)

welcome um can they turn this on maybe all right uh people here in the back can you guys hear me is the mic on no uh maybe you can ask them …

Lecture 2 - Team and Execution (Sam Altman)

uh before I jump into today's lecture I wanted to answer a few questions people emailed me saying they had questions about the last lecture …

Lecture 4 - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (Adora Cheung)

thanks for having me um so today I am going to be talking about how to go from zero users to many users um uh I'm just assuming that you hav…

Lecture 5 - Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel)

all right all right good afternoon uh today's speaker is Peter teal Peter was the founder of PayPal and paler and Founders funds and has inv…

Lecture 6 - Growth (Alex Schultz)

thank you for oversold thank you um cool so you guys uh this is awesome I've been watching the lectures in this course isn't it absolutely a…

Lecture 7 - How to Build Products Users Love (Kevin Hale)

all right so um when I talk about making products users love um what I mean specifically is like how do we make things that has a passionate…

Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press

yeah thanks for having me Sam um I'm Stanley I'm the founder of door Dash and it's it's really amazing to be here because it wasn't actually…

Lecture 9 - How to Raise Money (Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Parker Conrad)

um but I want to start with uh a question for for Mark and Ron which is by far the number one question probably be a link answer what do you…

Lecture 10 - Culture (Brian Chesky, Alfred Lin)

set the stage with a few slides and some comments, but the main stage is going to be with Brian when he comes up and talks about uh how he b…

Lecture 11 - Hiring and Culture, Part 2 (Patrick and John Collison, Ben Silbermann)

part two of culture and team and we have Ben Silberman the founder of Pinterest and John and Patrick Collison the founders of stripe um Foun…

Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie)

Can we keep playing the Okay, good. Can we turn it up a little bit so it's more pump up? Okay, here we go. Okay, we got to clap. We got to f…

Lecture 13 - How to be a Great Founder (Reid Hoffman)

here thank you Sam uh so when I looked through the syllabus of this class and thought about what uh I could possibly add that would be usefu…

Lecture 14 - How to Operate (Keith Rabois)

so I'm going to talk about how to operate so I've watched some of the prior classes and I'm going to assume that you've already sort of hire…

Lecture 15 - How to Manage (Ben Horowitz)

So when Sam originally sent me an email to do this course, he said, "Ben, can you teach a 50inute course on management?" And I immediately t…