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

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64030 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Sam AltmanhostDustin Moskovitzguest

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EPISODE INFO

Released: September 23, 2014
Duration: 43m
Channel: YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64030 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

SPEAKERS

Sam Altman
host
President of Y Combinator and instructor for the CS183B startup course.
Dustin Moskovitz
guest
Tech entrepreneur and Facebook co-founder giving a guest lecture on why to start a startup.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz, Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz) explores startup success basics: mission-driven ideas, user love, founder realities, impact Altman frames startup outcomes as idea × product × execution × team × luck, emphasizing founders should focus on the controllable inputs while accepting the role of randomness.

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