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#152 - Startup School Week 11 Recap - Geoff Ralston's Parting Advice
In this week’s lecture YC President Geoff Ralston shares parting advice for all the founders that participated in Startup School.
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Topics
00:00 - Intro
00:31 - Geoff Ralston's Parting Advice
00:51 - There is no one path
3:19 - Find your path
3:26 - Focus on what matters
4:14 - Startups are hard
4:46 - Things will go wrong
8:04 - Determination
10:21 - Default to action
11:31 - Don't just not be evil. Be good.
13:56 - Summary