Lecture 20 - Later-stage Advice (Sam Altman)

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-20-closing-thoughts-and-later-stage-advice-annotated Sam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in. Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton! See the slides at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec20/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64049 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

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EPISODE INFO

Released: December 4, 2014
Duration: 48m
Channel: YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-20-closing-thoughts-and-later-stage-advice-annotated Sam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in. Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton! See the slides at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec20/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64049 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

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Sam Altman
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Entrepreneur and former president of Y Combinator, delivering the “How to Start a Startup” lecture and Q&A.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Sam Altman, Lecture 20 - Later-stage Advice (Sam Altman) explores sam Altman’s later-stage startup playbook: scaling people, process, and mindset Altman argues most “later-stage” problems hit suddenly around 25–50 employees, when a previously flat, founder-centric structure stops working and simple management clarity becomes essential.

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