Founder @ EveryTrail. VP Mobile @ TripAdvisor. Husband & father of 4 beautiful little troublemakers. Startups. Family. Soccer. Travel. Hiking. Running. Dutch.
Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO of Minted.com, joined the class today and was interviewed by Reid Hoffman.
Mariam offered up candid and detailed insights on her past experiences:
Cs183c Essay Assignment #1
Write about the principles of blitzscaling at the Family stage that:a) resonated the most with you andb) surprised you.
A)
This session started with a very inspirational talk by Michael Dearing, putting entrepreneurship, innovation, capitalism and management into historical context.
During session 2 of cs183c a student asked Sam Altman about his thoughts on Bitcoin, referring to a somewhat skeptical post he had written a couple of years ago.
YC is network effect business. Alumni help each other.
Loyalty towards investors goes down with later rounds. YC alumni care more about YC than their later investors.