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Working for Microsoft cost me $200M

I was 23 and I had a zero-risk opportunity to join a startup as employee #1. That startup is now worth $20 billion.

Anyone who makes great software will run into situations like this— it's a measure of how valuable software is in the world
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About 50 reviews through 300 YC applications submitted for comment.

Surprising how unaware people are of competition. Yes, you don't die by competition, but when you make something new, you should be hyper-aware of what Google might tell people to use instead of you.
2nd most common mistake: Describing what a startup does, but failing to communicate why it’s a great product/service.

New things must massively outperform incumbents just to have a chance at escaping obscurity.

Step 1 - What is it?
Step 2 - Is it great?
3rd most common mistake: Not highlighting the product, design, and what’s built

The majority of YC apps are still basically just an idea and a bunch of words. If you have a demo, wireframes, mockups, a working site, DEFINITELY link it and drive people to it.

Makes a big diff
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Truepill cofounder @sidviswanathan spent over a year needfinding for his next startup before he met his cofounder who knew all about the brokeness of pharmacy.

Sid just asked questions until he built enough product for it to be useful!

My full interview:
Behind the scenes: I did it all myself. It took about 30 minutes on site with Sid including b-roll and portrait session with both cofounders.

Shot on a Sony A7 mirrorless camera at 1080p for simplicity, edited on Lumafusion on an iPad Pro in about 3 hours.
Notes for next time:

Gonna shoot CINE4 picture profile or maybe SLOG2 for better color.

Will use manual mode to set ISO shutter and aperture instead.

Need more setup footage with better intro and b-roll. I will work on my YouTube voice :-)

Thx for the inspiration @Casey
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Index funds are the next CDO

Central banks have removed price discovery from the credit markets, meaning risk does not have an accurate pricing mechanism. Passive investing has removed price discovery from the equity markets. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The simple theses and the models that get people into sectors, factors, indexes, or ETFs and mutual funds mimicking those strategies -- these do not require the security-level analysis that is required for true price discovery.
This is very much like the bubble in synthetic asset-backed CDOs before the Financial Crisis in that price-setting in that market was not done by fundamental security-level analysis, but by massive capital flows based on Nobel-approved models of risk that proved to be untrue.
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