Peter Thiel’s four characteristics of monopoly

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”