#041 – An Optimistic Nihilist's Take on Building a $2M Business with Vincent Woo

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

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Do You Think Google Is a Better Company Than Google?

02:08 • 2min

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You Hate Working for Big Companies?

04:09 • 2min

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What's the Difference Between a Productive Programmer and a Stupid Programmer?

05:45 • 2min

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What Will Be Memorable, Like, 60 Years From Now?

07:27 • 2min

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Cotor Pad - What's the Story?

09:11 • 2min

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How Did You Get Out of Everlane?

10:47 • 1min

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How Did You Know That a Side Project Should Be a Business?

12:17 • 2min

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Getting Used to Sales

13:53 • 2min

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How Did You Find the Time to Build Coter Pad?

15:49 • 2min

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I Don't Know What to Do About It

17:59 • 2min

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What About the Early Days?

19:45 • 1min

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Was It a Hard Transition?

21:14 • 2min

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How to Start a Side Business Without Quitting Your Day Job?

22:57 • 2min

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Do You Think Corporate Life Is Changing?

24:47 • 2min

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How Much Did Stripe Buy You For?

26:22 • 2min

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How Did You Get Into Y C?

27:57 • 1min

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How to Build a Task Management Application

29:27 • 2min

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How to Start a Successful Small Business

31:28 • 2min

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Do You Have Too Much Competition in Your Own Space?

33:09 • 2min

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The Constraints of a Solo Founder

34:47 • 2min

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Writing Marketing Copy Is Not Hard

36:23 • 2min

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Is Your Idea What Matters?

38:09 • 2min

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How Much Has Coterpad Changed Since You First Built It?

40:11 • 3min

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The Most Lucky Thing That Happened to You?

42:55 • 2min

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I've Been a Hacker for a While Now, but I'm Not Sure if It's the Right Thing to Do

44:53 • 2min

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Don't Fail to Do the Right Thing

46:39 • 2min

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Does Advice Work?

49:05 • 3min

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The Ted Talk Effect

51:57 • 5min