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The case for the office in the age of remote work
There's no substitute for some benefits of in-person collaboration. "Automation, remote work and the budding migration from cities to suburbs ar... (2017)
What do the best interviewers have in common? We looked at thousands of real interviews to find out
At interviewing.io, we’ve analyzed and written at some depth about what makes for a good interview from the perspective of an interviewee. However,... (2017)
Your company's Slack is probably sexist — Quartz at Work
Age, experience, and hierarchical position undoubtedly influence digital behavior. Does gender influence our office’s electronic communications? Wh... (2017)
16 Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Kinsta From $0 to 7-Figures in Revenue
Check out the lessons we learned during our bootstrapping journey, and how we turned our startup into a 7-figure business. Nothing is impossible! ... (2017)
Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science | Inc.com
It's impossible to think "out of the box" when you're stuck inside a box with a bunch of other people. "According to a study recently published ... (2017)
How to interview a technical co-founder
A friend recently asked me for advice about how best to accomplish a tricky task. They were a non-technical co-founder of a startup, looking to bri... (2017)
When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest
An acquaintance of mine, let’s call him Mike, is looking for work after getting laid off from a contract role at Microsoft, which has happened to a... (2017)
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. - NYTimes.com
The company’s co-founder had been under increasing pressure, and several major investors demanded that he resign from the company immediately. (2017)
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan Fowler
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about ... (2017)
What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?
Mark Suster, Both Sides of the Table, 2017: “Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar ... (2017)
Technical interviews are garbage. Here’s what we do instead
Technical interviews are a fantastic tool … if you want to hire candidates that are great at interviewing. But if you want people who are good at t... (2017)
Don’t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting! | AVC, Fred Wilson
AVC, Fred Wilson blog, 2017: “And that would be the end of equity compensation in startups as we know it. If this provision becomes law, startu... (2017)
CEOs Don’t Steer
There is a pattern to the most influential business writing, in The World is Flat league. Especially writing that CEOs seem to like enough to exhor... (2017)
Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies
Daniel GrossFollow, Partner at Y-Combinator focused on AI. Co-founder of Cue, acquired by Apple. Co-founder of AIGrant.org "A few folks have bee... (2017)
Ashamed to work in Silicon Valley: how techies became the new bankers
The Guardian, 2017: “Wall Street has long been the industry people love to hate. But as big tech’s reputation plummets, suddenly a job at Facebook... (2017)
How to Convince Investors | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay
August 2013 When people hurt themselves lifting heavy things, it's usually because they try to lift with their back. The right way to lift heavy... (2017)
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
Brian Chesky – Medium: "On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event ... (2014)
Using Equity to Build an Awesome Team | Vinod Khosla
"We’ve been watching a bunch of the Y Combinator Startup School videos. First of all, they’re great. Second, how is it possible that only 7,000 peo... (2017)
They’re Talking Behind My Back: Remote Workers Feel Unsupported
Wall Street Journal, 2017: “A new survey shows the difficulties of working from home: Remote workers are more likely than on-site employees to say... (2017)
A Fundraising Survival Guide | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay
YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: August 2008 Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making somethi... (2017)
The Equity Equation | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay
An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of your startup. Should you take it? You're about to hire your first employee. How muc... (2017)
A New World of Corporate Learning Arrives: And It Looks Like TV | Josh Bersin (2017)
"Over the last several years the corporate learning marketplace has been under stress. Video-based learning programs, free courses, MOOCs, and hund... (2017)
Revelo's LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
The company saw a surge of interest during Covid-19, now it's seeing strong demand for another reason: training LLMs. (2025)
How to Tell an Employee They’re Not Ready for a Promotion
Discussing a promotion with an employee when you’re not ready to give them one is a delicate balancing act, but it’s also a golden opportunity. It’... (2023)
“Scaling People” is a textbook piece of management writing
Claire Hughes Johnson has gone long on tactics and pragmatism, short on guff | Business. “Scaling people” is written by Claire Hughes Johnson, a te... (2023)
Meeting Cofounders: 27 places to find them
Hoping to meet your cofounder? As a followup to my post about getting a technical cofounder, I thought I'd offer a near-exhaustive list of places w... (2023)
My 5-step blueprint for finding the ideal cofounder
Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right cofounder(s) is the most significant determinant of s... (2023)
Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs • TechCrunch
Big money for an HR startup targeting the little guys (2022)
The Complete Guide to Acquihires | a16z Future
Advice from a16z experts on figuring out whether an acquihire makes sense and, if so, how to successfully pull it off — from due diligence to deal ... (2022)
Founders Equity - Best Practices for Startup Founder Equity
By following these startup equity best practices, founders and co-founders will establish a solid foundation to have a successful startup (2017)
How to Build and Manage Teams - CS183F | Stanford University | Vinod Khosla
Stanford University: Published on May 31, 2017, Anu Hariharan, Partner at YC Continuity, sits down with Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures an... (2017)
How Airbnb’s CEO uses an Unconventional Management Approach to Drive the $85 Billion Brand
Brian Chesky is the founder and CEO of the roughly $85 billion home-sharing business Airbnb. The company has been around for nearly 20 years and ha... (2024)
Notion for PRODUCT MANAGEMENT | How I use Notion as a PM
HEY. Yes. Notion is the key to planning new software. I assure you it's better than confluence, better than asana, better than any other planning t... (2021)
Inside Microsoft’s big bet on open design
The Verge Published on Apr 29, 2019 Microsoft is completely changing the company's approach to design. This huge shift will impact how all their ... (2019)
"Zombie Startups" by Mathias Pastor
Startupfood Published on Jan 7, 2019 At The Family, we believe that anyone can become a great entrepreneur. DESCRIPTION The end of a year i... (2019)
The Patagonia story: Bringing trends to life
Deloitte US Published on Jun 4, 2018 Experience how leading companies are embracing the Trends firsthand. Company story videos bring the Trends... (2018)
Learning In The Flow Of Work - Keynote Presentation - Josh Bersin 2018
Josh Bersin Published on Nov 4, 2018 This presentation walks through the concepts and details of Learning in the Flow of Work, delivered at Linke... (2018)
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice
YC Partner Jared Friedman joins founders -- Lillian Chou (COO, Second Measure) -- Diana Hu (CTO, Escher Reality), Calvin French-Owen (CTO, Segm... (2018)
Running Your Company - by Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO, Founder) -- YC Startup School
Y Combinator Published on Oct 3, 2018 YC Partner Adora Cheung, along with Patrick Collison, the founder of well known YC alumnus Stripe, discuss ... (2018)
Building an Engineering Team YC Startup School - by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar
Former YC Partner and founder of TripleByte Harj Taggar, along with his cofounder Ammon Bartram discuss a topic startups often struggle with most: ... (2018)
Cultural Breadth, Embeddedness, and Creativity - Google NotebookLM
This paper proposes that an individual's creativity is influenced by their adoption of their social group's culture. Creativity requires both novel... (2025)
#253 — Corporate Courage - Making Sense with Sam Harris | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Making Sense with Sam Harris on Spotify. In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jason Fried about the r... (2021)
Podcast: Hired by an algorithm | MIT Technology Review
If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by software—in most cases, before a human ever laid ... (2021)
Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are - a16z Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. This podcast -- which was recorded at the Computer History Museum in a live event, before the ... (2021)
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling - The Twenty Minute VC
Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the Founder... (2021)
Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More - a16z Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. When you hear stories about Amazon's "invention machine" -- which led to a company with not ju... (2021)
On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs - Andreessen Horowitz | Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups ... (2020)
Quora - Remote First
Greylock general partner David Thacker sat down with Quora CEO and co-founder Adam D'Angelo to discuss his decision to make the company a remote-fi... (2020)
a16z Podcast: The Stories and Code of Culture Change
How do you build, set, shape, fix, change, culture? Sharing practical advice while drawing on examples of culture as code from a thousand years ago... (2019)
The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder - First Round
Looking for startup ideas and trying to find a co-founder? Use this founder dating process and ask these 50 questions. (2019)
Finding Success by Staying Optimistic with Ketan Anjaria of HireClub - The Indie Hackers Podcast
Ketan Anjaria's (@kidbombay) path to success was paved with hardship. He was flying high in the 90s dot-com boom, until he lost his job in the cras... (2019)
IndieHackers podcast - with Lynne Tye of Key Values
How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else with Lynne Tye of Key Values After spending years pursuing a career in science, Lynne T... (2019)
YC podcast - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram – Y Combinator
Ammon Bartram is the cofounder of Triplebyte (YC S15) and Socialcam (YC W12). Triplebyte connects software engineers with companies that are hiring. (2018)
How Stripe's COO approaches company building
In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)
Audio Of The Week: Skin In The Game – AVC
I have been listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s new book, Skin In The Game, in audiobook form while driving around LA this past week. I’ve always ... (2018)
a16z Podcast: How Founders Hire a VP of Product – Andreessen Horowitz
Hiring a VP of Product — especially as the founder of the company — can almost feel like handing over your baby to someone else to hold, observes a... (2017)
Scaling People
From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people. Having worked... (2023)
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way... (2023)
Radical Candor, by Kim Scott
* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running * Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sol... (2023)
Founders at Work, by Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y Combinator
Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' ... (2023)
#GiveFirst
In #GiveFirst, Brad Feld advises entrepreneurs to give before they get. #GiveFirst is essentially the new motto of Techstars, a mentorship-driven s... (2023)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework, are back with a manifesto to combat all your modern ... (2021)
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar
Working Backwards book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's appr... (2021)
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes, director of UX Design at Google
Mismatch book. Read 20 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work f... (2019)
High Potential: How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work: Ian MacRae: Bloomsbury Business
In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go?High (2018)
Deel | Global Payroll, Compliance & HR Solutions | HRIS
Hire, pay, and manage teams in 150+ countries with Deel. Run global payroll, ensure compliance, and streamline HR operations—all on one powerful pl... (2025)
HR software for startups | Rippling
Rippling’s HR software for startups lets you offload critical admin work for payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, and finance, helping your startup g... (2025)
Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide
Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)
GreenLight.ai - Simply Manage & Pay Your Extended Workforce.
GreenLight is the world's first AI-powered worker classification, management and payroll platform. We are the API-layer powering the Future of Work. (2021)
Gusto - Payroll and benefits
Set your business up with modern payroll, benefits, and HR. Gusto also manages third party benefits (health, dental, vision) Our plans were b... (2021)
Tuple: The best pair programming app on macOS
Low latency, low CPU usage, no annoying UI chrome. Because programmers deserve better than a generic screen sharing tool. (2021)
Figma - Design, prototype, and feedback
Build better products as a team. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma. (2021)
Miro - Online Visual Collaboration Platform for Teamwork
Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams. Join 15M+ users from around the world. (2021)
Toggl - Simple time tracking. Powerful reporting.
Always getting distracted? Use Toggl as your productivity tool. A simple time tracker with powerful reports and it works across all your devices. ... (2020)
Flock - messaging, communication
Flock, the best team communication app and online collaboration platform, comes with team messaging, project management and other great features t... (2020)
Nomad List — Best Places to Live and Work Remotely for a Digital Nomad
The best places to live and work remotely for a Digital Nomad, based on cost of living, internet speed, weather and other metrics. For startups tha... (2020)
Degreed - The Lifelong Learning Platform
Degreed is a lifelong learning platform that individuals and organizations use to discover learning content, build skills, and certify their expert... (2020)
Elpha: where women in tech talk candidly online
Elpha is where women in tech talk candidly online. We're a private community where members come for personal and professional development, to start... (2020)
Milanote - the tool for organizing creative projects
Organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. (2020)
Trainual - Training Manual For Growing Businesses
Trainual is the easiest way to train your team and keep things running smooth as you scale. The most efficient way to onboard employees, automate ... (2019)
Find engineering teams that share your values | Key Values
Engineering teams describe their culture and how their values translate into daily practices. (2019)
Harvard ManageMentor Spark
Harvard ManageMentor Spark from Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning accelerates leadership team development with personalized learning. ... (2019)
AI Transformation Playbook How to lead your company into the AI era - Landing AI
AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology is now poised to transform every industry, just as electricity did 100 years ago. Between now and 2030, it ... (2018)
Compensation and Equity Calculator - Front
This is a tool we built at Front to improve the level of transparency we provide to candidates whom we end up making an offer to. You can read more... (2018)
Social Impact Movement – Social Impact Movement
Social Impact Movement improves people & social causes connection by curating, educating, and providing easy access to social-related engagement op... (2018)
Fiverr - Find the perfect freelance services for your business
Fiverr - Find the perfect freelance services for your business (2018)
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team (2018)
PayScale - Salary Comparison, Salary Survey, Search Wages
Research and compare average salaries. Free October 2018 salary information matched to your exact job profile. Find out what you are worth. (2018)
Founders Nation
Find or Become a Start-up Co-Founder (2018)
CoFoundersLab: World's Largest Network of Entrepreneurs
Join 400,000 Entrepreneurs Changemakers & Disruptors Free access to the largest Cofounder and Entrepreneurial community on the planet! (2018)
How To Hire | Vettery
A comprehensive guide to the recruiting process from start to finish. With insight from thousands of hiring managers and candidates, How to Hire pr... (2018)