{"id":2655,"date":"2014-09-26T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2017-03-19T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:58:14","slug":"yc-loves-relentlessly-resourceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/yc-loves-relentlessly-resourceful\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator Loves, &#8220;Relentlessly Resourceful&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Larry Chiang has a Jedi in Business Admin. With &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/credit-secrets\/carrie-kanes-question-about-24-envelopes-in-the-31-envelope-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">31 Envelopes<\/a>&#8220;, he can dispute and beat ExpTransFax&#8217;s goliath credit bureau&#8217;s, credit reporting power. Chiang got to keynote at a University he did not get into: Harvard University. They wrote: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2009\/What-They-Dont-Teach-4531\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221;<\/a>. Be a Jedi in Business Administration and &#8220;Be More Relentlessly Resourceful than James Bond&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-743\" title=\"Larry-Chiang\" src=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Chiang\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>As a founder team you get <a href=\"https:\/\/iqtell.com\/2013\/05\/how-to-get-things-done-with-style-james-bond-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">coached at YC to be James Bond<\/a>. I take pretty darn good notes sitting &#8220;First Chair Entrepreneurship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/515358797536043009\">9\/25\/14, 9:34 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>James Bond is &#8220;relentlessly resourceful&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#CS183B\">#CS183B<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Download the other 41k tweets or just read this pertinent one:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/515358692955283456\">9\/25\/14, 9:34 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>James Bond is unflappable, tough, knows what to do in any situation, act quickly, decisive, creative and ready for-anything.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#CS183B\">#CS183B<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sam Altman said, &#8220;James Bond is unflappable, tough, knows what to do in any situation, act quickly, decisive, creative and ready for-anything&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Problem: There are no James Bond patterns mentioned past the initial teaser: \u00a0&#8220;James Bond is unflappable, tough, knows what to do in any situation, act quickly, decisive, creative and ready for-anything&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PROBLEM: no PG essay or CS183B lecture explains to me how James Bond is relentlessly resourceful in a way that I, as an undergrad, can pattern replicate (PR. Pattern replicate. Is part if PRPRPI explained below here it says PRPRPI )<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Solution: my best extrapolation for &#8220;how James Bond&#8217;s relentless resourcefulness&#8221; can help you get YC and VC funded \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sam Altman stress James-Bond skills over &#8220;domain expertise&#8221; at the 14:11 mark. Lecture #2. CS 183B. Oct 25. 1:25pm. Here is what Sam and PG mean to explain<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-1- Jet setting based on the whiff, scent and remote possibility of a business relationship THAT DOUBLES YOUR SHAREHOLDER EQUITY.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the 43:13 mark (if you&#8217;re studying #CS183B at home), Sam told a story of flying out and squatting for a 6am meeting. A meeting with a junior level person led to an escalation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This meeting took place after they were told no. &#8220;No, go home&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The meeting led to getting a contract for Sam&#8217;s YC team. The last-minute flight led to their startup inflection point. Jet setting and flying off for meetings parlays into my next YC James Bond point&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-2- Airbnb founders always came to Tuesday night dinners with their roller bag<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ok, enough on jet-setting to meetings. Lets look at how James Bond does the ambush hijack meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-3- How PG and James Bond do Coupa Cafe meetings<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Have you seen when the VIP comes home, James Bond is just sitting in the chair in the dark&#8230; &#8230;gun barely visible. They chat. Well that is an ambush meeting. No choice for the VC but to take that meeting if you&#8217;re a founder squatting in the parking lot at 428 University. [By the signicade sign]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paul Graham still does this.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Text me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008<\/a> if you want the story.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, oct 17, 2009 (me thinks?), I&#8217;m on a coffee date with &#8216;Jessica&#8217;. My first mistake was picking Coupa. Anyway, Paul Graham not only sprang on me&#8230; He completely hijacked my meeting<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think he funded &#8220;Jessica&#8221; on the spot. James Bond does the ambush kidnap maneuver. PG does the ambush-Imma-gonna-fund-you-Hijack meeting. Whether he had a checkbook with him, I dunno<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>James Bond memorized back account numbers and Swift codes, so he is checkbook free.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-4- James Bond walks the hotel lobby wet and naked<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Entrepreneurship strips you of your pride and is an up-at-dawn, pride swallowing experience. Graduating at the top of the class at the English equivalent of West Point nets you a week of hiding in a water closet on a yacht so you can kill Wamboisee (imdb reference requested in the comments)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Founders need to go to events quasi underdressed &#8211; That. And showing up like that IS the dress code.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-5- Past hardship makes you resourceful<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If your father went to MIT.<\/div>\n<div>And your mother went to Yale. You&#8217;re the opposite of James Bond because he grew up an orphan subjected to horror. Maybe as a Stanford kid on athletic scholarship, you should mimic the Jedi in Business Administration (link to what you google about a JBA below)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-6- Creativity<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>James Bond may have graduated with honors, but he combined being school smart with being street smart.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While no one can cram a 38 year olds brain into your 19 yo brain, I was able to put street smarts into a classroom #ENGR145<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s renamed #CS183D and is available here <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster183D\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster183D<\/a>. The class isn&#8217;t even a class. It&#8217;s really just a hashtag with subroutines you execute<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For example a CS 183D subroutine&#8217;s<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; EUBM<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; EUTWMPPM #EUTWMPPM<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; #CrasherToVIP<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; LTMVP #LTMVP<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8211; PRPRPI #PRPRPI<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">PRPRPI explained<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">-7- James Bond sucks compared to R2D2<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">YC kids. Like Jedi&#8217;s? Well, r2d2 is what the coolest founders are. A dozen blog posts support the truth that R2D2 rules<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Two minutes on to the Death Star, R2D2 has hacked the cloud and was alpha droid shutting down the garbage compactor. James Bond is a pretty, pretty boy in a tux. Looks like C3PO and sounds like him too<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">C3PO&#8217;s are like VCs &#8211; protocol droids that are tall shiny and pretty<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"54CF5494-ADE1-4285-8546-1200A554AEC0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image3.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">The male on the right is pretty worthless<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">Stop wanting to be be James Bond. Be a CS major CRO \/ CS major CEO and execute a Jedi in Business Admin<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">This 9 year old learned how to execute a verbal deal. Does he look like James Bond or R2D2?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang has a Jedi in Business Admin. With &#8220;31 Envelopes&#8220;, he can dispute and beat ExpTransFax&#8217;s goliath credit bureau&#8217;s, credit reporting power. Chiang got to keynote at a University he did not get into: Harvard University. They wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221;. 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