Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston
Cofounder, Y Combinator; Author, Founders at Work; Host, The Social Radars podcast. thesocialradars.com Joined February 2010-
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The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.
Managing @brian_armstrong's "Mission First" announcement as head of comms at @coinbase was one of the biggest challenges I've had in my career. It was the right thing to do, but very painful to execute internally and externally b/c it was so controversial at the time. It came…
Managing @brian_armstrong's "Mission First" announcement as head of comms at @coinbase was one of the biggest challenges I've had in my career. It was the right thing to do, but very painful to execute internally and externally b/c it was so controversial at the time. It came…
Season 3 of The Social Radars podcast launches today! Our first guest is Yuri Sagalov, who is the insider's insider. He was funded by YC, then worked for YC, and now runs his own fund, Wayfinder Ventures, which invests in a lot of YC companies. pod.link/1677066062/epi…
I never saw this - thanks PB!!
About to go on stage at YC Startup School East A lot of very talented people in this audience. By the numbers almost guaranteed to have even a dozen billion dollar startup founders in this photo The future is not yet written so we don’t know which ones
There's 3 days left to apply for the @ycombinator Summer 2024 batch. YC changed my life, and it could change yours:
Congrats to David Lieb on becoming a group partner at YC. If anyone wants to know how his great he is, listen to his interview on the Social Radars! pod.link/1677066062/epi…
Apologies in advance but...are you shitting me?!
@TheFP @NPR @uberliner It's time to go for NPR's funding.
I am LOVING this photo. Too bad PG never had a YC apron.
I get emails like this every other day. If that many are asking, can you imagine how many quietly stop pursuing software as a career because of the silly hype around programming being automated away?
"Which is not to say it's impossible. But before you try it, you have to be able to say why everyone else has failed." Yes.
"Which is not to say it's impossible. But before you try it, you have to be able to say why everyone else has failed." Yes.
@mouvement33 A source's story of USC payoffs to OJ victims--clearly what you saw-- was included in a 1994 Esquire cover story written by my wife. USC's response was "to our knowledge" that didn't happen. After the story appeared USC vociferously denied it--maybe because of that visit?
Whoa!!! This is whistle blowing on ideological bias at NPR on a whole new scale. My hat is off to Uri Berliner. This took guts. thefp.com/p/npr-editor-h…
It's weird to think that Dean Preston grew up much richer than Garry Tan or Brian Chesky or the Collisons or for that matter almost all the tech founders he hates on.
20 years. No joke :)
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4K Followers 2K FollowingDefund the nonprofits that enforce ideological purity around “do drugs until you die” policy. The doom loop must end.
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It's weird how consistently people who attack Twitter point out that ad revenue has decreased. They don't seem the sort of people who care about companies' revenues, and now they're suddenly amateur stock analysts. I suppose it's because usage hasn't decreased.
I think this is true to a degree which few realize. Everyone needs to feel a sense of purpose through their own perception of their hero’s journey, and issues/conflicts will be manufactured to fill that vacuum if they don't otherwise exist.
Something I didn't realize when I was a kid: institutions can decay. Institutions seem so permanent, but it turns out to be very easy for them to drift from their original mission. The ACLU, the NYT, the Better Business Bureau, the ADL, NPR, none of them are what they were.
Jessica pointed out that the people saying I was hot are mostly guys. I pointed out that this shows she checked.
The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.
Think about it. They’re forcing you to liquidate valuable stock for increasingly valueless dollars. Which they can print. If you trace it through, the only entities with the dollars to buy such huge blocks of stock are backstopped by the Fed. It’s backdoor nationalization.
It’s difficult to describe how insane a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains is. Not a one-time 25% hit. It’s compounding, annually taking 25% of every dollar of potential increase before it can grow. Not an exaggeration to say it could single-handedly crush the economy.
I would much rather work with a consistent, predictable sales team that works hard every day than a bunch of reps who slam red bulls at the end of each quarter and close a few big deals to get to their number. tigereye.com/blog/attainmen…
“Apply to YC, get plugged into all the best builders of your generation, stay in San Francisco, and go all in now. Elements of the periodic table of startups are being discovered right now, and you all are the physicists.” @garrytan
To young future founders starting out: Mentorship touted by big tech recruiters is a scam to make you enslaved If you want to make a successful startup, the only real mentor is the customer
Send something as a PDF attachment instead of in the body of the email if you don't want people to read it.
"How to Start Google" (paulgraham.com/google.html) was a talk at my older son's school. It was one of a series of talks about careers. I just heard the students voted it the best one, and I'm happier than if I'd won some prestigious award.
Me in Ithaca in 1984 or 85. (In Ithaca, snow doesn't narrow down the month as much as you might hope.) The white thing is an egg. The photo was for my housemate Nancy's class project, which must have involved photographing people with eggs.
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"and is believed to be in San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin neighborhood." Those are the words that stick out to me in one of the now many, many articles about the disappearance of Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake's 16 year old daughter Mint. It's the leading story on the…
Damn, I used an s instead of z without realizing it. Next thing you know I'll be writing "colour," and it's only a step from that to "aluminium."
Triple surreal for all of us at @ModernTreasury! Really excited for this one.
Surreal tweet: I'm pumped to be interviewing Joe Montana at @ModernTreasury's Transfer event on May 15. Join us if you're into payments! moderntreasury.com/transfer
@hen8y 1. Conversations with Tyler( run by tyler cowen). 2. The social radars( run by jessica livingston and carolyn levy) 3. The Dwarkesh podcast (run by Dwarkesh Patel) 4. The dock with Omar waseem( run by some guys at founders inc)
@paulg @joodalooped People need to listen to the Social Radars episode with @parkerconrad to see how the public story can often be opposite of the truth