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Startup insights from Jeff Bezos, Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, and Andy Rachleff

Naval Ravikant’s advice for raising venture capital: “It is an emotional sale, not a rational sale”

Marc Andreessen explains IBM founder Thomas Watson‘s famous “Wild Ducks” program

Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff on why Don Valentine and John Doerr are the greatest VCs of all time

Sam Altman explains why “how big is your market?” is a terrible question for investors to ask

Nikita Bier tells the story of 15 failed app pivots before selling TBH to Facebook for $30 million

Startup insights from Patrick Collison, Max Levchin, Aaron Levie, Paul Buchheit, and Nikita Bier

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

Tobi Lutke explains what the VCs who passed on Shopify got wrong

Gusto founder Josh Reeves shares principles and tactics for raising venture capital

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