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In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Harj Taggar shares his advice on the types of people best suited to be startup founders and how to prepare to start a company in the future. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 00:48 - How to decide whether to be a startup founder. 02:42 - Resilience is the most important quality 03:35 - Founder of Benchling (S12) 05:11 - Startup resilience - Initial motivation isn't important 07:04 - As a curious founder ask "What do I have to lose"? 09:10 - Startup experience can improve your career opportunities 10:50 - Getting ready to start a startup in the future 12:52 - Best environment is working at a startup 14:28 - When to take the leap and start a company? 16:14 - Advice #startup #tech #entrepreneur Y Combinator Musicbed SyncID: MB013EDUBCAZ4PG
"foreign [Music] I'm Hodge tiger one of the group Partners at y combinator today I'm going to talk about whether you should start a startup because YC invests in startups so early I've spent a lot of..."
"out if you're the kind of person who should become a startup founder or not I really wish there were simple test you could take that would give you a clear and correct answer to that question I've n..."
"your early users and that's the quality I think is most important for startup Founders to have resilient people are suited to startups and should definitely become Founders but how do you know if yo..."
"benjling in 2012. benjling is now worth over six billion dollars and Sagi has grown into a formidable founder and CEO but I remember when we first interviewed him and his co-founder Corey they were ..."
"who seemed equally talented at first when we first funded their companies but turned out not to have the same amount of resilience as these Founders did I've thought a lot about how to tell the diff..."
"introspecting too much on if you'll make a good startup founder I'll offer some practical advice if you are curious about what it'd be like to start a company start by asking yourself what do I have..."
"succeed my second startup triple bite use software to help companies identify and hire great people I work with hundreds of employers as they search for the best talent and I found that many of them..."
"you're not ready to do one right now how can you best prepare yourself to start one in the future to actually start a company you'll want two things an idea and a co-founder now sometimes an idea an..."
"start a company one day it's best to choose an environment where you will be around many people who might someday be your co-founder I think the best environment for this is working at a startup you..."
"how do you know when it's time to take the leap and quit your job to start a company while it'd be great if one of your side projects started getting explosive traction and made the decision easy fo..."
"too much about your initial motivations or reasons to start a company those can change over time simply being curious about the experience of starting a startup is enough to get going think about th..."