🤐 The hard conversations founders don't want to have

While having honest and difficult conversations can be uncomfortable, they are essential to your growth as a founder. In this video, Dalton and Michael discuss why this kind of transparency is important, and share examples of hard conversations they have had with founders in the past.

📉 Why would you start a startup in an economic downturn?

In an economic downturn, there are obvious downsides of starting a startup — but there are also powerful upsides; because to survive, you have to actually build something people want.

🔥 Founder Fireside: Adam Elsesser - CEO of Penumbra

Few founders have managed to stay the CEO of their company, especially when it is publicly traded at a market cap of $10B. Adam tends to shy away from the spotlight, so we're happy that he's joining us to talk about how he got the company going, what drove him to stay in the CEO seat, and how to maintain a startup-like culture even when you have thousands of employees.

🚀 The Launchpad

🌎 YC Community

🔥 Hacker News

1. The gap between how old you are and how old you think you are (theatlantic.com)
2. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (csail.mit.edu)
3. My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account (jeffgeerling.com)
4. The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee (tylercipriani.com)
5. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge (wired.com)
6. Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) (gkbrk.com)
7. Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub (medium.com/@shiloholotu)
8. Software 2.0 (2017) (karpathy.medium.com)
9. World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back (bloomberg.com)
10. Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible (mattfrisbie.substack.com)

💸 Money Moves