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Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by lonesomewhistle on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:39PM (#25532176)
I’d take a look at the material and his writings before making that kind of judgement. Besides being smart, he seems to have a lot more humility than most of the people who give advice about startups, and he’s seen an unusually high number of startups throughout the process so he is in a great position to observe what works and what doesn’t. I’d much rather hear what he has to say than someone with one successful exit, mostly because I’ve come to trust his mind observational skill and his humble demeanor over the years.

Most of these videos had counterintuitive information that I was happy to have heard before getting started — especially since I came from a completely different industry. They won’t tell you near everything you need to know to get started, but nothing will so as far as these things go I found them to be very helpful.

Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by augustt on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:49PM (#25532250)
Maybe I'm not seeing the right material but when I watch stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJKucu6HJc from him, all I hear are mind-numbing platitudes. Having a "sensible business model" might have been my favorite piece of advice from that one.
Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by simonswords82 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:51PM (#25532271)
Very happy for you to disagree with me friend. My mentor is super successful, one of the smartest people I've worked with...he's never started a business. I don't think he could.

Just because you understand the theory doesn't mean you can start a business. That's all I'm hoping to point out. I wish to take nothing away from Sam's success. In purely monetary terms Sam is infinitely more successful than I might ever be.

Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by vincentmarle on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:09PM (#25532402)
> he seems to have a lot more humility than most

Sorry, are you talking about the same Sam Altman who wrote about "life advice" when he turned 30? https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...

Or the Sam Altman who tells us:

- How to invest in Startups https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-invest-in-startups

- How to be successful https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

- etc.

Sam Altman is a PG wannabe, but without the actual insights and experience

Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by lonesomewhistle on Thursday December 24, 2020 @09:36PM (#25533694)
I mean, yeah. That post says “life advice” but it reads more like “things I fucked up in my twenties.”
Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by naveen99 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:19PM (#25533317)
I like his life advice. Do you have any issues with any specific advice or just his age at the time it was written ?

You want to go in the right direction, age is irrelevant. Think more about what you want to be doing. Being ageist is not what you want to be doing.

Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by simonswords82 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:37PM (#25533415)
I think too many people are looking to other people for advice.

Most need to find their answers from within.

Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by naveen99 on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:46AM (#25536744)
Advice by definition is from outside. What does it matter where the answers come from as long as they pass a sanity test from within.