Lost and Founded. Stories of successful startup founders

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Two struggling co-founders study and discuss other successful founders. With focus during the founding stage of each company.

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  • Dec 11, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 19m AVG DURATION
  • 3 EPISODES


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PayPal Max Levchin

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2018 12:44


Learnings: zero to one in theory vs in practice. They didn’t know that they wanted to replace US currency when they founded the company. They had several iterations.

Airbnb. What a cockroach really means

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2018 26:27


Learnings - They tried another idea for finding roommates before Airbnb - It took a bit less than a year of raw work before YC - They weren't fully focused on Airbnb full time. Only in YC did they work from 8-12 daily

Mark Zuckerberg. He didn't have a grand vision but he builds a lot and he does it quickly

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2018 17:50


Important points: - He builds fast because he gets bored easily - He likes to have fun. Fun is more important than money - He builds a lot of things - He didn't really have a grand vision. thefacebook just happened to catch on and he thought it was fun

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