Lecture 20 - Later-stage Advice (Sam Altman)

Sam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in. Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton!

[fhoplist]

I made it through all 20 videos. I'm kind of sad that it is over. I loved the series, good material and inspiring.

[Husain_bohra]

Thank you for the lectures, congratulations to everyone who made it this far.

[unifiedtheoryoflife]

Many thanks to Sam and Stanford for making this series public :) 

This has been my favorite thing to watch on YouTube for the past few months. Appointment viewing indeed. 

[LokeshKumarIIT]

took three days to finish this and took handwritten notes of all these fantastic speakers, must say these lectures are gem for newbies just entering the startup world. thanks to Sam and and his team!!!

[liamboyd]

finished all 20 videos, and still amazed by the fact all these are free. Thank you for the knowledge

[DudeMan]

Its amazing to see the view numbers drop off so much throughout the course

[tusharshiralkar]

Amazing course.... Can't belive this just has a few hundred thousand views... This entire course is worth gold... Thank you YC❤️

[thehari]

Im rewatching this for the 16th time because sam taught me to be persistent

[Sarahkozakj]

Finally finished the course! Awesome. I've been listening at work while entering leads. Great stimulation for hours. Thank you for sharing!! 

[philgibe]

Greetings from Cannes, South of France, where I am starting a start-up (real estate disruptive portail app) and I just wanted to tell you Sam as much your 20 videos are so highly appreciated even 4 years later. Internet technology really shines through when it enables any one to share that much knowledge globally. Thanks again. Phil.

[micahpeterson]

Views of each lecture (at time of posting):

L1 - 242, 498
L2 - 98, 957
L3 - 85, 684
L4 - 64, 883
L5 - 91, 301
L6 - 61, 940
L7 - 53, 701
L8 - 42, 076
L9 - 40, 623
L10 - 35, 994
L11 - 23, 232
L12 - 27, 159
L13 - 33, 058
L14 - 25, 815
L15 - 29, 212
L16 - 17, 562
L17 - 12, 830
L 18 - 17, 447
L19 - 11, 514
L20 - 3, 903

[bmejia]

Really eye-opening talk from Sam Altman.
one thing a particular he said is that focus is often a side effect of burnout for founders and that’s really clarifies a lot for me.
for you guys and girls working hard for your business, make every day count and end your days in a way that are restful and set you up for success the following day.

[hoodasaurabh]

*"This was fun"* was a great ending to a great course. All the best everyone.

[jimmylipham]

Bravo, Sam (and the entire lineup from this series). The information you have shared is quite invaluable to us entrepreneurs!

[gopal.kalpande]

Finished Today. The content is useful for next 100 years. Thanks a lot.

[imadityaaryan]

I can't believe that this gem content is absolutely FREE to watch and learn from!!
What else can we expect better, we're having Stanford course taught by billion dollar company owners at 0 fees!!!
YouTube and internet really made a revolution in learning.
We're living in the best generation in terms of the ease of SUCH GREAT CONTENT AND GREAT PEOPLE and their teachings.
Thank you stanford.
Thank you YC.
Thank you YouTube🙂

Love♥️
From India 🇮🇳

[linhgab]

Watch it through these 20 episodes. They helped me a bunch when I was figuring out my ideas. Many many thanks Sam!!!

[Dan-dbro]

Man it has been quite a week!. i gotta say that I'm extremely grateful to Stanford University for offering these materials for free.

[carloscampo]

Excellent series, will rewatch it entirely again. 

[iamadarxsh]

Today i finished my 20th Everything said in this series was a gold from these people Thanks Sam and Stanford for putting these videos up on youtube for free