Sup Forum,
I'm developing my AI, and meanwhile I thought it was cooler to take some advice from inventor billionaires and not traditional businesses like many on this forum (you've helped a lot, but building technical stuff is more difficult than to start a window cleaning biz).
So, I've looked sporadically over months. I've looked for books written by billionaires (mostly inexistent or much irrelevant), googled for forums like this one (there is startups.com, however looks sketchy), and other looking for info - just like I've looked for advice that MJ has given years ago.
So, I've found something.
While YouTube is generally a stockpile of particularly shitty business advice (dropshipping and the like), turns out there are VC funds creating videos. Basically, VC funds, who successfully invested into companies sit down and discuss their journeys. Think founders of Webflow, founders of biotech companies. founders of Doordash, Dropbox, Reddit, Youtube - many of legendary companies.
The kind of folks you just can't help but respect. Most interesting part? those videos gather only about 2-4k views, while the hottest "how to make 10k/mo in 1 mo" will gather hundreds of thousands.
So, These channels:
Sequoia cap: Sequoia Capital. To put into perspective, this is the VC that owns equity in the biggest companies in the world - all the afformentioned companies were funded by Sequoia. I understand their "Crucial Moments" series is specifically for scaled up entrepreneurs.
YCombinator: Y Combinator
Younger folk would know a company twitch.tv - it is the biggest videogame streaming platform. Yes, so, the manager in YC is the guy who was a founder of Twitch and he sold it to Amazon for 970m. He and also a bunch of other self-made billionaires who did innovation to get there.
The title of this post was taken from one of the comments under his videos "these are two evil lords who laugh at startups struggling".
And also other VC funds - google "top VC funds", and almost every one of them has those kinds of interviews.
You won't find this stuff in books! (or on seminars, I presume) They are too busy for writing a book, so this is the best bit that you can extract from public domain.
Hope this is of value,
MRiabov
I'm developing my AI, and meanwhile I thought it was cooler to take some advice from inventor billionaires and not traditional businesses like many on this forum (you've helped a lot, but building technical stuff is more difficult than to start a window cleaning biz).
So, I've looked sporadically over months. I've looked for books written by billionaires (mostly inexistent or much irrelevant), googled for forums like this one (there is startups.com, however looks sketchy), and other looking for info - just like I've looked for advice that MJ has given years ago.
So, I've found something.
While YouTube is generally a stockpile of particularly shitty business advice (dropshipping and the like), turns out there are VC funds creating videos. Basically, VC funds, who successfully invested into companies sit down and discuss their journeys. Think founders of Webflow, founders of biotech companies. founders of Doordash, Dropbox, Reddit, Youtube - many of legendary companies.
The kind of folks you just can't help but respect. Most interesting part? those videos gather only about 2-4k views, while the hottest "how to make 10k/mo in 1 mo" will gather hundreds of thousands.
So, These channels:
Sequoia cap: Sequoia Capital. To put into perspective, this is the VC that owns equity in the biggest companies in the world - all the afformentioned companies were funded by Sequoia. I understand their "Crucial Moments" series is specifically for scaled up entrepreneurs.
YCombinator: Y Combinator
Younger folk would know a company twitch.tv - it is the biggest videogame streaming platform. Yes, so, the manager in YC is the guy who was a founder of Twitch and he sold it to Amazon for 970m. He and also a bunch of other self-made billionaires who did innovation to get there.
The title of this post was taken from one of the comments under his videos "these are two evil lords who laugh at startups struggling".
And also other VC funds - google "top VC funds", and almost every one of them has those kinds of interviews.
You won't find this stuff in books! (or on seminars, I presume) They are too busy for writing a book, so this is the best bit that you can extract from public domain.
Hope this is of value,
MRiabov
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