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How to Start a Startup Lecture 2: Full Transcript

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"As an example of how intense Brian Chesky is, he's the Airbnb CEO, he used to ask people if they would take the job if they got a medical diagnosis that they have one year left to life (sic)"

This is essentially asking - are you willing to lie to get this job.

And what a small price to pay for a job! Why accept anyone who would fail to pay that price? I cannot think of a single reason.

[Job applicant must also cry self to sleep under desk.]

Exactly. And it seems like you would not want to hire the person who says "yes" because you know that person is a liar. But I guess Airbnb worked out anyway.

He would also tell people that he didn't believe in work-life balance.

Ideal gamed answer, both true and good enough to satisfy AirBnB: "no I would spend all my savings traveling around the world to exotic and unusual places, and hacking on open source projects as time and net access permitted."

That sounds to me abuse of power even coming up with that question.

I've never seen this before, but on the site it is wrapping lines mid-word. Here is how the first paragraph looks for me:

    Before I jump into today's lecture, I wanted to answer a few questio
    ns people had emailed me about the last lecture that we didn't hav
    e time for. So, if you have a question about what we covered last ti
    me, I am welcome to answer it now, starting with you.

Caused by the CSS rule word-break: break-all

"Word breaks may be inserted between any character"

Yep this is a problem with the CSS from embed.ly. I've already notified the engineers at Genius and I'm hoping they can get it fixed soon.

EDIT: also, because of some weird mixture of CSS rules, this is only a Firefox thing, so you might want to try chrome. Sorry about that!

EDIT2: Okay this should be fixed now! Thanks guys.

I've marked lines I think need to be further analyzed; would be amazing if people dropped knowledge! e.g. http://tech.genius.com/4101810

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