Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap) (Paperback)
For would–be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best technology companies in the world, this book offers both wisdom and engaging insights—straight from the source.— Chris Anderson, editor–in–chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail“All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever.” —Steve Wozniak, Apple Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover?Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it’s done.But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businessesdo—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.
About the Author
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, MA, and Mountain View, CA. She was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.
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How interviews uncover new truths
The thing I like most about interviews in general are that some new truths are often uncovered and the chance to dispel common myths is revealed.
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Very informative but also starting to show it’s age
There are several good interviews here but some of them are getting quite old in internet years. For example, Ev Williams is interviewed about Bloggr even though now most people…
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Awesome book
This book provided great insights into the minds of many famous (and not so famous), successful entrepreneurs.
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A great and inspiring read
This is a very readable book that will give anyone interested in founding or working for a startup a lot of food for thought.
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Personal observations of founders – learn your own lessons from them
Founders and co-founders talk about their ventures, the early days, learnings, tribulations, and life at startups. There are 32 interviews here.
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Unique in its class
Normally, I’d be bored by a collection of interviews. But this one is exceptional, filled with exciting tales from the boom era of Silicon Valley, told by some exceptional…
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Not bad — but read Programmers at Work first
After reading the classic Programmers at Work (see below) back in the 1980s, then re-reading it again last year, I was a little disappointed with Founders at Work…
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Founders at Work: Useful, inspiring
This is quite a treasure trove of inspiration and advice. It kept me going during some of the hard times while I was working on our startup.
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a great book!
A great book! Very interesting and it should be on the shelves of every start up!
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Inspiring
This was an inspiring book to read. Gives you insight on how several founders from the top companies/products we know today (Firefox, Apple, Hotmail) progressed in its early…
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