PickVidsBest Startups & entrepreneurship Videos
The 121 Startups & entrepreneurship videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 18 introductory, 8 intermediate, 95 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Y Combinator, This Week in Startups, startupschool.
Paul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412
Paul Graham gives a keynote in his hometown of Pittsburgh, reflecting on the old and new city and arguing that it could become a startup hub.
The Wire Season 1 - McNuggets
A two-minute clip from The Wire season 1 in which D'Angelo explains, using the McNugget, that having an idea does not get you paid.
The Real Product Market Fit by Michael Seibel
YC partner Michael Seibel discusses his essay on real product-market fit, why founders wrongly believe they have it, and how building a company is not a single-variable problem, drawing on Justin.tv and Socialcam.
Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series
A 1992 MIT Sloan talk and Q&A by Steve Jobs, then CEO of NeXT, covering NeXT's strategy, co-creating Apple, his ouster, and the value of direct experience.
Google is killing authentic websites & I made it worse 😔 Here's why I RUINED my company website
Louis Rossmann explains how Google delisted his repair business site for almost a year, and how having AI rewrite his authentic content into corporate-style text finally restored his rankings.
Elon Musk and Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk in 2012 about his companies PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla.
I’m Legally Obligated to Disclose This - Framework investment
Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips discloses that he has invested in Framework, the modular repairable laptop maker.
Venture Capital - Silicon Valley Ponzi Scheme - Chamath Palihapitiya
A 13-minute clip from This Week in Startups in which Chamath Palihapitiya describes venture capital as a Ponzi-like scheme driven by fees and inflated valuations among VCs.
Learning from StackOverflow.com
Joel Spolsky's 2009 Google Tech Talk on why StackOverflow was built, how it addresses the mess of searching for programming help, and the community design behind it.
Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)
The Futur's guide to pricing design and creative work, arguing against hourly rates and for value-based pricing.
Chamath Palihapitiya on rebuilding Social Capital & Silicon Valley ponzi scheme
Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Jason Calacanis about how he bought into the mythology of Silicon Valley, which he calls a Ponzi scheme, and about rebuilding Social Capital.
Mr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no asshole" rule
Robert Scoble interviews Paul Graham at Y Combinator's Mountain View headquarters as 36 new startups debut.
Bulletball
Inventor Marc Griffin pitches his game Bulletball to the American Inventor judges.
DEBUNKING ELON MUSK Pt1 (1080p)
Part one of a two-part skeptical series examining Elon Musk's past business dealings to test whether he is a self-made genius billionaire.
Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013
Balaji Srinivasan's Startup School 2013 talk on Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit, arguing for building alternatives outside existing institutions.
Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google
Stanford Blitzscaling class session where Reid Hoffman interviews Eric Schmidt about structuring teams and scaling Google.
Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler
Tyler Cowen interviews Peter Thiel about technological stagnation, innovation, and lessons from Zero to One.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley
Y Combinator partners Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss how startups shifted from attracting outsiders to status- and money-seeking conformists.
Lecture 3 - Before the Startup (Paul Graham)
Paul Graham's lecture in the 'How to Start a Startup' course, covering counterintuitive parts of startups and how to have ideas.
Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried
Jellyvision hosts Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson for a Q&A about open source, productivity, feature requests and taking care of customers.
The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota
A surreal multimedia TEDxSarasota performance by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, held on 12/12/12, mixing performance art with talk about imagination and creativity.
The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9
A satirical Onion Talks episode in which a startup founder explains making money by selling his users' data to oppressive governments.
Rap Genius with News | Disrupt NYC 2013
Rap Genius founders appear at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 for a joke-filled interview announcing News Genius, with little detail about what it is.
Jim Goetz and Jan Koum at Startup School SV 2014
A Startup School SV 2014 conversation between Sequoia's Jim Goetz and WhatsApp founder Jan Koum.