Good founders can give me a picture of the future that I can believe. And the second that I believe your version of the future, you have leverage.
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After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.
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If someone who's passed on your company as an investor offers you to make introductions, that's kryptonite. Don't touch that.
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Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.
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One of the things that's so interesting when talking to minority founders specifically is that there is really a knowledge gap in understanding what the risk-reward profile is for doing a startup.
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I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.
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Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.
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I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010.
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What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider.