Startup Archive

Gas founder Nikita Bier explains why you shouldn’t worry about big companies stealing your idea

Stripe founder Patrick Collison tells the story of almost naming the company PayDemon

Max Levchin tells the story of how he shipped a bug that almost killed PayPal a year before IPO

Box founder Aaron Levie on the opportunity in exploiting the business models of large incumbents

Paul Buchheit explains how he and Noam Shazeer built Google’s “Did you mean?” feature

Paul Graham: “Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew how big their companies would get”

PayPal cofounder Max Levchin: “Brilliant people have extreme personalities more often than not”

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley on Facebook copying their product

Uber founder Travis Kalanick shares his “cocktail story” test for investing in startups

Uber founder Travis Kalanick shares his “cocktail story” test for investing in startups

Gusto founder Josh Reeves shares principles and tactics for raising venture capital

Gusto founder Josh Reeves explains how they built their first MVP

Affirm founder Max Levchin on firing: “Whenever there’s a doubt, there’s no doubt”

Gusto founder Josh Reeves explains how he came up with a $10 billion startup idea

Palmer Luckey explains how Anduril complements Elon Musk’s mission for SpaceX

Keith Rabois on startup offices: “The environment you’re in dictates how you behave”

Peter Thiel on the most important lesson he learned in venture capital

DoorDash founder Tony Xu: "You can't compete against an incumbent on their territory”

Keith Rabois: “I tell founders not to worry about runway. Worry about lift.”

Keith Rabois explains that the key to LinkedIn’s success was investing 80% of resources in virality

Keith Rabois explains that the key to LinkedIn’s success was investing 80% of resources in virality

Jony Ive tells the story of the time he and Steve Jobs realized they saw the world similarly

Jony Ive tells the story of the time he and Steve Jobs realized they saw the world similarly

Jony Ive: “You have to reject reason to innovate”

Jony Ive: “You have to reject reason to innovate”

Jony Ive explains the Steve Jobs product philosophy that saved Apple from bankruptcy in 1998

Box founder Aaron Levie: “Spend a lot of time with your most futuristic customers”

Carl Pei shares the design insight he learned from the founder of Teenage Engineering

Jony Ive explains the Steve Jobs product philosophy that saved Apple from bankruptcy in 1998

Uber founder Travis Kalanick on how to avoid bad advisor relationships for your startup

DoorDash founder Tony Xu: “No startup on day 1 should be thinking about moats”

Sam Altman: A long-term commitment is the only arbitrage opportunity left in startups

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s #1 piece of advice for startups building in the age of AI

Former CEO Eric Schmidt explains why Google fumbled its lead in AI

Ben Horowitz on the ideal founding team for a startup

Ben Horowitz on the ideal founding team for a startup

Ben Horowitz explains the two things every successful technology startup must do

Mark Zuckerberg to new-hire Aditya Agarwal : “If I can build Facebook you can build a search engine”

Uber founder Travis Kalanick’s advice for startup founders: “Preemptive deals are bad”

Mark Zuckerberg explains why startups often beat big companies

Box founder Aaron Levie: “Make sure you’re benefiting from a major technology tailwind”

Ben Horowitz: “To be a good CEO people have to want to work for you”

Palmer Luckey on the importance of rewarding people who move quickly

Zillow founder Spencer Rascoff: "I will never invest in a consumer startup with paid marketing”

Netflix founder Reed Hastings on the most important leadership quality for building a company

Jeff Bezos shares his favorite interview question

Jeff Bezos shares his favorite interview question

Jeff Bezos’s two pieces of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

Uber founder Travis Kalanick: “Every angel deal that gets done is a momentum play”

Uber founder Travis Kalanick: “Every angel deal that gets done is a momentum play”