Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman

I agree its really great of them, you can watch office hour sessions on youtube from the Startup School that YC runs [VIDEO]

Flexport is hiring engineers: [LINK] As an engineer starting at Flexport in a couple of weeks, here are some more interesting resources that shaped my thinking: Interview with Ryan Petersen (Flexport CEO) [LINK] Office hours at startup school 2013 with pg & sama [VIDEO] I also happened to have recently read Zero to One. Plus, Flexport has an appealing mission. Removing friction in something as basic as shipping makes pretty much everyone in the world better off.

Fantastic work. I really hope pg has accepted your application to ycombinator. You clearly have a talent for hard work, perseverance and knowing how to market your product well. Even if pg doesn't like the idea, he should realise the team is very capable. I have a question though Karen, did you know you were going to do this project before you created this video [LINK] ? (I originally saw it on r/GetMotivated when it went viral originally) or did you decide to build it due to the popularity that the video got and the requests from people wanting to achieve similar? (Just curious from a marketing point of view whether you planned for the dance video to go viral to boost your idea or whether you saw an untapped market due to the popularity of the video and decided to fill it) ---- [EDIT] - Just got my question answered by watching this : [VIDEO] - I'm glad that it was an idea that came out of the viral consequence of the original video, rather than the original plan all along. Also just realised that the woman learning to walk video I saw today on r/GetMotivated was submitted by you / part of the same project. I can see pg's mind turning over in the office hours video, trying to understand the concept and how big it can grow - I think he's right in the fact that you should see how people use it and allow yourselves to pivot if another idea emerges out of where you're at so far. I guess the issue is that one of the reasons for the successful popularity of your original dancing v

I remember seeing these guys get accepted to Ycombinator on stage at at Start Up School 2013. Cool concept! Here's the link if anyone is interested. [VIDEO]

It's like in the university where you could drop by at your professor's office to discuss on topics or problems. This [0] should give you a better idea. [0] [VIDEO]

It's an interesting business. I'm impressed that >DHL “bought three of the biggest freight forwarders for $15 billion, then spent $960 million with IBM for an IT backbone, and that failed. They wrote it off completely.” You'd think IBM could do such stuff. See also Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman [VIDEO]

This is a decent writeup because it defines what "an uber" is and what it means to be a business like that. How many "Uber for X" businesses label themselves that way because of interactions like this one, where customers and investors are so focused on Uber as some kind of canonical startup that there's attempts to squeeze unrelated business models into it? [VIDEO] (specifically 21m56s and 24m9s) This video is four years old, so it's good to know that claims of "Uber of X" are getting long in the tooth. It'll help to start agreeing on definitions and get away from the buzzwords.

Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open 'Office Hours' at Startup School in 2013. [VIDEO]