Larry Chiang mentors college students to get a FICO up over 750. He started Duck9 as a sequel business while he was an undergrad. It’s Deep Underground Credit Knowledge 9. After a Harvard Law School keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“.
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By Larry Chiang
You see, YC seemingly gives you conflicting advice. Sell something before you build it. And “Make something people love”.
Lets jump ahead to a real world success with MIT kids
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Do you realize we sold Plancast ?
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, before we graduate. Zero point 6 millionaires *before* we graduate #ZeroPt6= larryChiangFellows flip.it/XUh66
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The idea of “selling something we don’t own” is to execute Paul Graham and Paul Buchheit’s and Sam Altman’s advice: “sell it before you make it” + ‘Do Things That Dont Scale’
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Paper millionaire vs The #zeroPt6 millionaire
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Download the official Twitter hashtag for making $600,000. #CS183X. Text me to start.