Paul Graham, Michael Moritz in discussion with Guy Kawasaki [video](building43.com)

58 pointsby themichael17 anni fa24 comments

Paul Graham, Michael Moritz in discussion with Guy Kawasaki [video]

http://www.building43.com/videos/2009/08/07/fireside-chat-money-and-passion/

27 comments

It seemed that a bunch of people thought a transcript would be useful, and considering I was going to watch the video anyway, I decided to jot down some notes for anyone interested. It's not a transcript by any means, but I think you'll get the gist of the questions and answers.

The video is an hour, and I figured the notes were too long for posting here, so I threw them up on a private link on my Tumblr account: http://bit.ly/18I4Td

Alex391717 anni fa

For me the most insightful idea was toward the end when Michael Moritz said that it's easier for small b2b companies to get a foothold during a recession, because during better times the big companies won't even listen to them. The idea being that during a recession big companies become desperate to get better results for less money. I hadn't thought about that, but it definitely seems true, at least in my case.

moe17 anni fa

Sigh. I'm interested but can't possibly divert over an hour of screentime for it.

An MP3 or ipod-video download would be appreciated.

warp17 anni fa

the video is on blip.tv, you can download it there.

http://building43.blip.tv/file/2413059/, see the "files and links" box on the bottom-right of the page.

moe17 anni fa

Thank you!

callmeed17 anni fa

Agreed ... I like to take downloads and play them on my tv. That'd be nice.

MorrisCallaman17 anni fa

Paul and Michael are always worth hearing from; Guy, not so much.

briancooley17 anni fa

Guy is merely asking the questions.

alanthonyc17 anni fa

The person asking the questions helps drive the direction of the conversation. With these two guys, you would hope the they are asked good questions in order to help discover key points that otherwise would not be found.

(Not saying that Guy did a bad job...still watching it.)

staunch17 anni fa

I think he's a good moderator.

davidw17 anni fa

So: for those of us familiar with pg's teachings (the shoe, thankyou, not the gourd), is there much that's worth watching the video for, or is it a rehash?

gregwebs17 anni fa

The Sequoia investor completely dominates the video, so take a look if you are interested in that perspective.

prakash17 anni fa

not much.

idlewords17 anni fa

Preparing a video of my comment.

knightinblue17 anni fa

A transcript would be great.

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volida17 anni fa

probably you could use Amazon Mechanical Turk

knightinblue17 anni fa

I won't. But since they provided the interview, it'd be nice if they provided a transcript as well. A transcript which takes 2 min to read instead of watching an hour long video.

Efficiency. Look it up. Or have Mechanical Turk look it up for you.

sid17 anni fa

Great video, good insights from some of the veterans of the startup and venture world. For someone oceans away its great to still get the information and the advice that goes around in silicon valley.

About the video, i sometimes got the feeling that Micheal was cutting Paul of at times, at times it was annoying when paul was about to say something related to earlier stage startups and micheal would just cut it off.

When this happens its sometimes interesting to see the facial expressions of the person getting cut off but the quality of the video wasnt good enough to make out anything noticable =P that or paul did a good job of hiding it :)

briancooley17 anni fa

Best nugget from the video for me was Paul's opinion on the iPhone being the next big platform because hackers are building apps for the iPhone (vs. the Blackberry or Palm pre, which are almost non-existent among hackers).

ryk17 anni fa

I thought it was an interesting point also...and then I thought about it more. Michael talked about how a lot the companies they are investing in aren't based in the United States. Are iPhones as popular among hackers in other countries?

weaksauce17 anni fa

Why do they not allow fast forwarding? I want to get back to the 20 minutes mark but I cannot. Not worth watching that 20 minutes over again.

weaksauce17 anni fa

If you go to the building43.com page the video is on the top and it allows you to fast forward.

http://www.building43.com/

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stse17 anni fa

I think this is the Sequoia presentation they were talking about: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1822343/Sequoia-Venture-Capital-...

edit: found the post also http://hackerne.ws/item?id=328685

themichael17 anni fa

Here is the audio version as an Mp3: http://blip.tv/file/get/Building43-FiresideChat738.mp3

[deleted]17 anni fa