Alan Kay - How to Invent the Future IOne of the pioneers of personal computing, Alan Kay thought of laptops and graphical interfaces years before they were realized. At XeroxPARC, Apple, HP and Disney, he has developed tools for improving the mind. In these two lectures, Alan shares his story and how to think about building for the future.
Alan Kay - How to Invent the Future IIOne of the pioneers of personal computing, Alan Kay thought of laptops and graphical interfaces years before they were realized. At XeroxPARC, Apple, HP and Disney, he has developed tools for improving the mind. This is part two of his lecture.
Anne Wojcicki - How to Build the FutureAnne Wojcicki - https://twitter.com/annewoj23 - is the CEO and co-founder, 23andMe - https://www.23andme.com/
Anne co-founded 23andMe after a decade spent in healthcare investing. 23andMe's mission is to empower consumers with access to their own genetic information, and create a simple way for people to participate in research. 23andMe currently has more than 5 million customers worldwide, and has created the largest crowd-sourced platform for genetic research. More than 80 percent of 23andMe customers participate in a research program that has generated nearly 100 published genetic studies to date.
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http://www.ycombinator.com/future/anne/
Drew Houston - How to Build the FutureDrew is the founder and CEO of Dropbox.
Rejected once before, Drew eventually went through Y Combinator in the Winter of 2007 with Dropbox and has since grown it to over 500 million users today.
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http://www.ycombinator.com/future/drew/
Sam Altman - How to Build the FutureAccess podcast and transcript versions of this interview here: https://www.ycombinator.com/future/sam
Elon Musk - How to Build the FutureElon is the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Originally a cofounder of Paypal, Elon Musk founded SpaceX to enable the colonization of Mars.
Access podcast and transcript versions of this interview here: https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/
Mark Zuckerberg - How to Build the Future...Mark is a cofounder of Facebook.
Facebook is one of the most influential companies in the history of the world. Over 1.1 billion people use it every day.
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http://www.ycombinator.com/future/mark/
Stewart Butterfield - How to Get Ideas and How to MeasureIn today's lecture, we're joined by Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack, and Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora. Sam and Stewart will explore the process of getting an idea, followed by Adam on tracking metrics for your company.
Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz - How to Start a StartupLecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup.
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Sam Altman - Team and ExecutionLecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-2-ideas-products-teams-and-execution-part-ii-annotated
Sam Altman finishes up "Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution" by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup.
See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/
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