By Larry Chiang
Oh, I’m here to dole out wisdom if you want to go from Silicon Valley outsider to Bay Area insider (lol, I just made a CS 183, Lecture 18, Peter Thiel pun:-)
Quora said that I was part of Silicon Valley’s triple threat {along w/ YC and Stanford). So, since I am an institution now ($ know you’re busy ;), I will just rifle off something that’ll knock that sticker off your Mac. Really.
“7 total hours can move you past 63.01k students.”
– Larry Chiang
A week ago, Sam had 50k. By the time you’ve read this, it might be 80,000
Sam Altman (@sama) | |
50,000 people have now signed up to watch CS183B (startupclass.samaltman.com)
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LOOK KIDS.
Student entrepreneurship has a bell curve. How competitive are you!?! Well, you’ve read this far, so “Congrats”
Let me reiterate something all y’all already know. 63,010 students won’t do dick. 20-24 will. If you’re part of the “20”…, Good news
Good news is that it’s not even going to take 7 hours. It’s not a sales pitch for a book. No, I dont wanna “advise you and take back end points”. I just want a hug and a high five. Well, it’s also me teasing you with high rewards, small effort and street smarts. I’m putting out…
…2 videos no longer than 9 minutes, 59 seconds, each, will lever what PG and Sam Altman repeatedly say: “Do things that don’t scale”. They video and stress and blog this point BUT DON’T BREAK IT DOWN INTO TACTICAL, ACTIONABLE STEPS.
ME?! I didn’t parlay my lofty title into VC funding but rather doubled up my effort to document. I broke down “do things that don’t scale” into over a dozen subroutines here:
And here
Steve Blank has some thoughts via twitter that I shared here
CS 183b has a sequel (this helps you with the bell curve)
Startup School had a sequel too: “Startup Academy”. See how University of Texas students shifted the the successful side of the bell curve
Take another 9:59 and write down every hashtag. Then tweet or text it to me. For example, “#EUBM”. It’s all super easy to execute. But wayyyyy easier not to do the things that don’t scale.