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by mattjaynes 861 days ago
On this question, David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at YC's Startup School 2008 still holds up great today. Was the first time I heard of the concept of the Fortune 5,000,000

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY Transcript: https://indiefounder.substack.com/p/full-transcript-of-dhhs-...
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robocat 861 days ago
On bootstrapping, I think Jason Cohen's talk is gold: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw

This is fairly honest about the risks of VC: https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2017/08/01/not-building-unico... and the rest of his articles are amazingly insightful too - read em all if you want to be a founder.

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mempko 861 days ago
Yeah, but DHH really went off the deep end. https://world.hey.com/dhh/where-next-for-dei-0dc866b4

I used to use their HEY email service until HEY decided to ban all societal and political discussions for employees. Which sparked a huge exit of talented people from their service.

And now DHH went "anti-woke" and it's sad.

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