Packed House At Y Combinator Startup School

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/19/packed-house-at-y-combinator-startup-school/

by alaskamiller • 18 years ago

49 23 18 years ago

pmorici• 18 years ago

Are videos of the complete talks going to be posted some place? The recoding on Justin.tv is spotty and incomplete.

eworoshow• 18 years ago

Someone (Paul Graham?) mentioned that Omnisio was also recoring the proceedings. (At the very least there were certainly two cameras so we can be reasonably confident a second version will appear.)

lyime• 18 years ago

Video will be up soon, Don't worry Omnisio will post about it very soon.

ryan2• 18 years ago

Videos are going up now at http://omnisio.com/startupschool08

gruseom• 18 years ago

That's quite a strange list of highlights.

yters• 18 years ago

That's what I thought. Seems there's a subtext missing.

csmajorfive• 18 years ago

Best highlight: Very nervous guy thanks Bezos for gmail.

thomasswift• 18 years ago

that's terrible it was clear that he was excited to ask him a question, and he knew what to ask him about. rockets. mars bitches

ryan2• 18 years ago

Here's the link: http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/jeff-bezos/27:35

poor guy

projectileboy• 18 years ago

First, thanks to the management for hosting a fabulous event. That was the most entertaining day I've had in a long time. I'd like to add some additional comments to Mr. Arrington's:

- Although Jeff Bezos didn't directly comment on Google App Engine, he did an awful lot of indirect commenting, by way of pointing out features of AWS that are noticeably absent from Google App Engine.

- After the day was done, I overheard some folks who sounded bored and disappointed by Peter Norvig's talk, which focused on the application of large data sets and machine learning to practical problems. I was shocked by the reaction, as it seemed to me that Norvig was basically giving us a roadmap for (a) finding interesting problems and (b) solving them. Short of writing a check, I'm not sure what else he could have done for the audience.

- Am I the only one who thinks it's funny - and a sad comment on the software development community - that technical conferences always have the most technical problems?

- Paul Buchheit is Bob Newhart. And I mean that as a compliment.

DaniFong2• 18 years ago

People were all psyched up for more self affirming startup things. Even I seem to operate in a 'startup' mode and a hacker mode. It seems weird. I spent most of my week on machine learning. Yet after hours of talks on entrepreneurship, Norvig's talk of clustering and segmentation made my mental gears switch. I don't think people expected it.

comatose_kid2• 18 years ago

Is there a good text you could recommend on the topic?

yangyang42• 18 years ago

Another highlight: Arrington's desktop.

(Did anybody get a good shot of what was on there?)

cstejerean• 18 years ago

check justin tv archive

abstractbill• 18 years ago

We missed it unfortunately. I think that was when someone spilled coffee on our power strip :-/

dcurtis• 18 years ago

I couldn't make out anything interesting. There was a Word document called "FINAL draft FINAL final" though, which I chuckled at.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

It's on Valleywag...

Packed House At Y Combinator Startup School

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