Founder interviews

YouTube

Elad Gil on product market fit, hiring, and scaling startups

Y Combinator October 18, 2018

---

Founder interviews 9

Product-market fit 8

Fundraising & VC 6

• Market beats team every time — even great founders die in bad markets
• Three clear signals your product has found real market fit
• Why multi-miracle business models almost always fail

Read more →

SEO

YouTube

WordPress technical SEO: speed, duplicate content, and internal links

Ahrefs October 17, 2018

---

SEO 9

Automation & tools 6

• Three plugins fix WordPress speed without touching server config
• Yoast settings that prevent WordPress from auto-creating thin duplicate pages
• Find pages with too few internal links using Ahrefs Data Explorer

Read more →

Productivity & habits

YouTube

Seven principles of individual high performance at work

Bill Gallagher October 17, 2018

---

Productivity & habits 9

Processes & SOPs 6

Management 5

• Working beyond 50 hours a week actually decreases performance.
• Obsessing over fewer priorities beats spreading effort across many.
• Passion and purpose together — not separately — drive top performance.

Read more →

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Amanda Palmer on songwriting, creative solitude, and her TED Talk process

How I Work October 17, 2018

---

Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 7

Public speaking 6

• Why she needs everyone out of earshot before she can write
• From a 50-minute draft to a 12-minute talk: two months of brutal cutting
• Public deadlines and financial stakes as a forcing function for creativity

Read more →

Equity & cap tables

YouTube

Understanding SAFEs, dilution, and cap tables for early-stage founders

Y Combinator October 17, 2018

---

Equity & cap tables 9

Fundraising & VC 8

• Post-money SAFEs let you calculate exactly how much you've sold
• Stacked SAFEs plus option pool can cut founder ownership in half before Series A
• Over-optimising your valuation cap changes final ownership by barely 1%

Read more →

Founder interviews

Podcast

Dee Hock on building Visa and rethinking how organizations work

Founders October 16, 2018

---

Founder interviews 10

Business operating systems 7

Management 6

• Visa was built with no money, power, or legal standing — by necessity.
• Why purpose erodes into procedure inside every large organization.
• Hock's biggest regret: losing the fight to prevent a payment duopoly.

Read more →

Founder interviews

YouTube

Building payments infrastructure for African businesses: Paystack's story

Y Combinator October 16, 2018

---

Founder interviews 10

Business models 6

Hiring & recruitment 5

• Less than 2% of Nigeria's consumer spending goes through cards — yet.
• One bad payment experience kills digital trust forever; Paystack designs around that.
• Local context — not technology — is why international payments companies can't crack Africa.

Read more →