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The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How to Be a Successful Startup Founder

The advice part is find low stakes things you can work on, give them to the world. This sort of story comes up a lot in some of the founders that we fund. They almost don't understand the question. It's their nature to build things and release them. The way you get better at it is you suck at it first. You've got to learn how to make friends. And needless to say, this is a skill that people kind of assume you can't learn. But I know you and I have seen this with YC founders. Like massively change. Absolutely.This is 100% a learnable skill. Anyone who says otherwise is really doing you a disservice.

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