Episode · This Week in Startups · 2020-05-12
Books mentioned on E1057: Founders Fund General Partner Keith Rabois on stock market bounce back, domain expertise being overrated, US/China issues, 2020 election, recipe for startups success, chaos making way for a new generation of entrepreneurs & much more!
0:56 Jason intros Keith Rabois and checks in on his quarantine, Zoom's heightened exhaustion factor & more 5:46 What will the lasting impact of COVID be on Silicon Valley & the startup funding landscape?
Keith Rabois recommended Lifespan by David A. Sinclair and others and High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Lifespan
Lifespan by David A.
Recommended“I've read recently a great book by David Sinclair out of Harvard entitled lifespan which is basically argues that aging is a disease yes and like in like any disease it's actually preventable if you do the right things one of the things he highly endorses is taking metformin so that alone has remote evaded me Sarah seriously considering all”
Where to get it
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High Growth Handbook
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil is a comprehensive guide on scaling startups from ten to ten thousand employees.
Recommended“in fact I have a chapter for those who really want to dig into this in either I kill over at a great book called the high growth handbook there's one chapter in a book that is a basically my views expressed at length so someone who's seriously consider going public should read the chapter verses like this a 30”
Where to get it
