ya fair enough, definitely a difference in quality between PG's lecture and this one to be able to quote from. Still thought Kevin had some decent content though
A very very well delivered lecture. I love that YC is taking a stance against buzzwords like growth hacking, and getting startups to look maniacally at building a solid product that gets to product/market fit quickly. Seems pretty consistent across lectures from PG, Peter Thiel and now Alex as well.
One reason why I think this lecture probably hasn't generated as many comments/upvotes is because there may have been too many topics put into just 1 lecture. I think it may have been more effective if the content was split out into maybe 2 or 3 separate lectures that went into a bit more depth like..
-Building a product (covering the MVP, the decision process around what features are most important and what's not, etc)
- Customer Development/talking to users (the environment to interview them, types of questions to ask them, types not to ask,etc)
- Growth (different types of growth, what Homejoy focused on at each stage, potential challenges they went through etc)
I recognize that since it's a Stanford course, they are probably capped with the amount of time they have during the semester as well.