Y Combinator | Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas @ycombinator | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
One trait that many great founders share is conviction. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll talk about finding confidence in what you're building, the dangers of inaccurate assumptions, and a question founders need to ask themselves before they start trying to sell to anyone else.

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Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Coming Up
00:16 - Intro: How Fast Is Too Fast?
00:26 - Rigorous Thinking
02:10 - Superficial Validation
03:26 - Solving Problems
04:09 - High Quality Reps
05:52 - Best Qualities
06:57 - Conviction
08:26 - Fear
12:52 - YC Standard Deal
13:33 - "Pivotitis"
14:01 - Random Walk
16:11 - A Useless MVP
19:40 - Learn A Good Rep