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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days View Larger Image | Jessica Livingston
Apress, Paperback, Published September 2008, 488 pages, ISBN 1430210788 | List Price: $17.99
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“All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money
and (b) not having done it before, ever.” —Steve Wozniak, Apple
Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica
Livingston about Y Combinator!
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days is a collection of interviews
with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very
earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they
were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple),
Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer
Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often
very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.
Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors
to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover?
Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for
a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on
the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done.
But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to
understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The
reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businessesdo—create
value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How?
What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read
this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.
"For would–be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone
fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best
technology companies in the world, this book offers both wisdom and engaging
insights—straight from the source."
— Chris Anderson, editor–in–chief of Wired Magazine, and author
of The Long Tail
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
About The Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Max Levchin
Paypal 1
Chapter 2 Sabeer Bhatia
Hotmail
Chapter 3 Steve Wozniak
Apple Computer
Chapter 4 Joe Kraus
Excite
Chapter 5 Dan Bricklin
Software Arts
Chapter 6 Mitchell Kapor
Lotus Development
Chapter 7 Ray Ozzie
Iris Associates, Groove Networks
Chapter 8 Evan Williams
Pyra Labs (Blogger.Com)
Chapter 9 Tim Brady
Yahoo
Chapter 10 Mike Lazaridis
Research In Motion
Chapter 11 Arthur Van Hoff
Marimba
Chapter 12 Paul Buchheit
Gmail
Chapter 13 Steve Perlman
Webtv
Chapter 14 Mike Ramsay
Tivo
Chapter 15 Paul Graham
Viaweb
Chapter 16 Joshua Schachter
Del.Icio.Us
Chapter 17 Mark Fletcher
Onelist, Bloglines
Chapter 18 Craig Newmark
Craigslist
Chapter 19 Caterina Fake
Flickr
Chapter 20 Brewster Kahle
Wais, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet
Chapter 21 Charles Geschke
Adobe Systems
Chapter 22 Ann Winblad
Open Systems, Hummer Winblad
Chapter 23 David Heinemeier Hansson
37signals
Chapter 24 Philip Greenspun
Arsdigita
Chapter 25 Joel Spolsky
Fog Creek Software
Chapter 26 Stephen Kaufer
Tripadvisor
Chapter 27 James Hong
Hot Or Not
Chapter 28 James Currier
Tickle
Chapter 29 Blake Ross
Firefox
Vi Contents
Chapter 30 Mena Trott
Six Apart
Chapter 31 Bob Davis
Lycos
Chapter 32 Ron Gruner
Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.Com
Chapter 33 Jessica Livingston
Y Combinator
Index
About the Author
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture
firm based in Cambridge, MA, and Mountain View, CA. She was previously VP of
marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups
at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School. She has a BA in English from
Bucknell.
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