Y Combinator | Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem @ycombinator | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
When it comes to building a startup you’re never doing it entirely from scratch. Inspiration and ideas can come from a variety of places, including other successful startups. But there’s a thin line between borrowing smart ideas and copying them blindly - otherwise known as Cargo Culting. In this episode Dalton and Michael break down the problem with Cargo Culting and offer advice on the right way to draw inspiration from other successful companies.

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Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Coming Up
00:19 - Cargo Culting
00:35 - What Is It?
01:47 - Classic Variety
02:18 - Google Obsession
04:24 - Facebook Playbook
05:33 - Spend Like Uber
06:41 - Why It Worked?
10:27 - A New Problem
12:11 - A Superficial Facade
13:15 - The Three Levels
13:41 - Focus On The User
14:48 - Copy And Paste