YoungLeaders @YL_group

Since my Harvard lab closed yesterday, I've been reading and interpreting this week's published papers on #COVID19. What follows is a thread of information, my interpretation, links to sources & predictions. Let's start with what you need to know... #coronavirus #COVIDー19

Leadership role expectations: - 24/7 thought leadership - Conference speaking - Podcasts interviews Leadership role reality: - Saying the same things over again consistently at scale - Asking two teams if they’ve talked to each other - Finding where that Google doc is

Young people willing to push super hard to make something happen are among the most powerful forces in the world.

I don't remember most tweets, but I remember this one. You could have made so much money investing in Stripe in 2013, despite their (as it then seemed) scandalously high valuation.

Paul Graham @paulg

11 years ago

One of the more striking graphs I've seen lately. Stripe's revenue history as of Oct 2012, and now.

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This one is deep. Happy Thanksgiving!

3 teams of teenagers from across North America are working on revolutionary product ideas. If you're in Montreal, come meet them and the organization behind them on August 15th. Apply for an invitation to the @YL_group Young Leaders Demo Night: youngleadersgroup.org/ignitia

"By the time of group office hours, we not only were able to meet a goal we thought was wild a week earlier, but we had a formula for becoming a self-sustaining non-profit." segment.com/blog/how-a-bro…

Me: If I could read your mind, what would I see? 7 yo: A giant cinema with lots of things playing at once.

Meet the 2019 @YL_group cohort! Four teams of bright teens diving into a 7 week program to build solutions in privacy, wellness, education, and sustainability 🚀#YLBuild

I was reading “Only the Paranoid Survive” by Andy Grove on a flight and the woman sitting next to me was Andy Grove’s wife!! What are the odds of this happening??? She was wonderful and the book is fantastic. Highly recommend. 🤯🤩

When I was younger I assumed perfection came from people's desire to do things well. But it can also come from curiosity: if you're curious what the perfect version of something would look like, sometimes the only way to find out is to make it.

This kind of flaw is a tell that Docs has never been a priority for Google.

Patrick Collison @patrickc

5 years ago

Some day, AI will get so advanced that Google Docs will *automatically* switch to the account has access to the document.

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This is one of the most amazing things I ever learned in physics: you can derive Maxwell’s equations from Coulomb’s Law and Einstein’s two special relativity postulates. (I’ve never seen a good derivation of this online — pointers welcome…)

Elon Musk @elonmusk

5 years ago

🧲 is relativistic side effect of ⚡️

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At @HustleFundVC the way we work with founders is by investing a quick $25k check (usually after 1 conversation) and then working with our founders on a growth project of sorts for about 1 hr per week for a few wks. Some learnings from that:

@sama The best way to produce good outcomes is dealing with reality the way it actually is versus what you want it to be.

@sama In startups: not to work on a made-up idea, to ship fast, not to treat fundraising as a competition, to hire slowly, to fire fast, not to talk to corp dev.

"Will you teach me physics?" – 7 yo after I explained how World War II ended

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Kulveer's secret weapon is one he learned from hearing Zuck speak at Startup School. It's hard to think of a very successful founder who doesn't have the same secret weapon: being committed to work on something for a long time. thetwentyminutevc.com/kulveertaggar/

The founders, who've been the same people all along, find their personas have been switched from "plucky young founder trying to make new idea work" to "evil plutocrat bent on destroying the world." Whatever people can get attention by portraying you as, you'll be portrayed as.