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29:13Jim Goetz and Jan Koum at Startup School SV 2014
38K views • 12 years ago
Y Combinator
A Startup School SV 2014 conversation between Sequoia's Jim Goetz and WhatsApp founder Jan Koum. They discuss how Sequoia pursued WhatsApp, its tiny engineering team, and how it handled growth and support.
29:08Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman
81K views • 13 years ago
Y Combinator
A Startup School 2013 session where Paul Graham and Sam Altman hold live office hours with startups including CodeCombat, Flexport and others. The founders pitch and get on-the-spot feedback.
56:16Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change
3.6M views • 8 years ago
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chamath Palihapitiya's Stanford GSB View From The Top talk on money as an instrument of change. HN mostly knows it for his remarks on social media's dopamine-driven feedback loops and regrets about Facebook.
31:37How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
5.2M views • 6 years ago
Ars Technica
In Ars Technica's War Stories, Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin explains how the team squeezed Crash Bandicoot onto the original PlayStation. They overwrote Sony library code in RAM, built custom animation compression, and streamed assets around slow seek times.