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Jessica Livingston
@foundersatwork · Cofounder, Y Combinator
Dave, I started another version years ago but between YC and 2 small children, I don't have those beautiful, long chunks of time needed to work on a book. I'll try though!
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Alexis Ohanian
@alexisohanian · Co-founder, Reddit & Initialized Capital
Jessica was the reason Steve & I got into Y Combinator - without her, there'd be no reddit. She collected interviews with a range of founders talking about the early days of their companies and it did a lot to demystify starting a startup for the two of us, a couple recent college grads.
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Jessica Livingston
@foundersatwork · Cofounder, Y Combinator
Dave, I started another version years ago but between YC and 2 small children, I don't have those beautiful, long chunks of time needed to work on a book. I'll try though!
Michael FitzGerald
@mfitz406 · CEO/Founder of Submittable
One day Amazon pushed Founders at Work into my recommendations list while I was researching oral histories and narratives (I also highly recommend "Please Kill Me," an oral history of punk rock by Legs McNeil) At the time, I was a working writer and interested in how to write sentences that sounded like people talking. (The format for Founders at Work is Q&a… See more
Dave Gerhardt
@davegerhardt · Director of Marketing at Drift
One of my favorite books. Great to hear those stories, and the Q&A format makes it super easy to read. One question for Jessica though: how do we start a movement for V2 of this book? I think it's time :)
Tim Finnigan
@timfinni · Founder of Blockshelf.com
Excellent book! Jessica does a great job of extracting helpful information from these founders.
Here are some of my favorite quotes and lessons from her book:
http://blockshelf.com/founders-a...