{"id":3770,"date":"2015-03-03T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2015-03-05T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:49:30","slug":"23-very-specific-things-to-look-for-as-a-stanford-engineering-joining-the-next-uber-palantir-facebook-paypal-revel-systems-or-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/23-very-specific-things-to-look-for-as-a-stanford-engineering-joining-the-next-uber-palantir-facebook-paypal-revel-systems-or-uber\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Very Specific Things to Look For As a Stanford Engineering Joining the Next Uber, Palantir, Facebook, PayPal, Revel Systems or Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"image.jpeg\"By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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All unicorns biatch!!!<\/div>\n
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I came to Silicon Valley because a unicorn co-founder recruited me to do lead gen. It was an engineer with sales skills in charge of biz dev recruiting an engineer with sales skills. My grasp of “CS major seeking Unicorn” is so strong (via coat tailing the tech tastemaker, Robert Scoble:-). My ability to sniff out a Unicorn is so strong that I routed these unicorns thru Stanford athletics. BECAUSE STUDENT ATHLETE ENGINEERS SHOULD GET ACCESS TO UNICORN INTERNSHIPS WHILE EATING “TRAINING TABLE”.<\/div>\n
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Training Table is where athletes eat special meals. Training Table is why I said Uber twice. Training Table is the reason for my C&D*<\/div>\n
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*More on that below.<\/div>\n
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Here are 23 incredibly specific things to checklist WHEN THINKING ABOUT GIFTING YOURSELF TO TO A STARTUP ENTITY, IN THE FORM OF A PAID SUMMER INTERNSHIP:<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:46 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
23 Things to Look For.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:48 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team: Is the team rock stars w\/1 self-taught founder with a massive “chip”.<\/div>\n
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100% Stanford is bad. (According to YouNoodle. Professor Rebeca taught us)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:50 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Do 2-3 of the cofounders code and sell. Tomorrow’s unicorns have 3-5 CS major founders. All code. All promote.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:52 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. What delicious non-conformist “hack” have they already executed. Starting up is tough without a sequence of naughty, legal hacks<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This reminds me of my mentor’s, Paul Graham’s post https:\/\/bit.ly\/pgraham710<\/a> (being “naughty” while seeking growth and traction is point #….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:53 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. What “lemonade stands” have they practiced on
\n#ENGR145<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:55 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
As an engineer, you’re like a VC bc you’re ‘funding’ a startup with code. Often, way more valuable than capital<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 9:57 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Does the team have the skill of “Engineering up a Business model”? Stanford engineering content. Cerebral cortex re-wired for sharEQ<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:00 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Whether u like it or not, my CS major unicorn-seeking padawan, you’re an unconscious semi competent R2D2, VC ;-P<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

#R2D2vc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:00 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
The venture capital side door.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:03 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Was the team able to bootstrap to a $25mm valuation without a nickel of institutional money.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Can u\u00a0#R2D2vc<\/a>\u00a0them 25mm~>$50+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:05 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Was the team…
\nWill the team make money debuting before they premier and then later\u00a0#Launch<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

#HTMMWYMM<\/a>\u00a0#ENGR145<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:09 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Does the team burn time discussing VC during meetings. VCs should be sub 3%
\nYes wayyyy less than 5% talking fundraising
\nIdeally 0%<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:10 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Remember sharks smell blood from miles so theres no need to chum w fake blood.
\nTheyre expert pattern recognizers\u00a0#PRPRPI<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

#vcSecrets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 10:11 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Does the team focus on external deliverables. Or is it 100% internal deliverables<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Know this diff!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 1:57 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Is the team a pre-existing team?<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Are u a pre-existing team, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 1:59 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
You, before joining their team. Have you promoted what they’re doing to a paid-paying person<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Have u sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:01 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. How does their team feel about you, as a CS “R2D2’s” selling their shitake without their permission.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:04 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Is the team “unicorn” bc it’s able to execute massive swaths of executable “subroutines” in-the-business world<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:06 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. If the team is Asian, have they already or\/and are they willing to “go partial retard”<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:08 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Does the team currently live in a VC’s house that is currently getting pseudo renovated. In The 94025.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:11 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Does one of the founders have a physical ailment that channels remaining energy into the “Sport of Shareholder Equity Building (no TM)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:14 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Does one of the founders have sexual energy that channels into the “Sport of Shareholder Equity Building”\u00a0#ch7<\/a>
\nBang less. Get ahead<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:16 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Was this a lifestyle business until it was not a lifestyle business?<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:19 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. When you look at what exists, is it mostly pretty slidedick power point bull crap?<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:21 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. What two APIs have they DJ’d to scandalously make $500k off 3 old bozos at $150k-$175,000\/clip<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:24 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Eskimos have 15 words for snow<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

YC has 12 docs for VC
\nOne document for ‘revenue’\u00a0ycombinator.com\/documents\/<\/a><\/p>\n

#whatIs<\/a>\u00a0#ENGR245<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:25 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Did a vc (who has operations exp) buy a hedge by doing a 250k note-bridge-seed-X- “Safe”-blank check ), and then kinda “incubate”<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:27 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Do you look at the team and say “How in the world are you guys together!?!”<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

U want a diverse team in hive-mind “mode”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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2\/26\/15, 2:29 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
Team. Is their slide deck one slide:<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“We are 5 CS majors. We all code. We all sell. Bobby never went to college but he’s the best”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/27\/15, 9:38 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
I see blitz reads like it’s a CS pop quiz in #CS183c<\/a>… I remember Charlie Weis remembering Week 5 (chargers vs Patri grantland.com\/features\/how-t\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Download the official Twitter app here<\/a><\/p>\n

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ENGR145’s two anchor videos move\u00a0you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve<\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang All unicorns biatch!!! I came to Silicon Valley because a unicorn co-founder recruited me to do lead gen. It was an engineer with sales skills in charge of biz dev recruiting an engineer with sales skills. My grasp of “CS major seeking Unicorn” is so strong (via coat tailing the tech tastemaker, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}