# Jessica Livingston — Researcher persona

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- Persona: Jessica Livingston
- Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for Jessica Livingston: her Founders at Work blog and essays (including 'Grow the Puzzle Around You'), her writing on founding Y Combinator, judging founders, and the Female Founders Conference, plus long-form interviews where she speaks in the first person and her hosting on The Social Radars podcast, with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes.
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- Sources: 2216
- About report version: v5

## About

Jessica Livingston’s central pattern is to treat startups as human systems before they are financial instruments or technical artifacts: companies emerge from founders’ character, relationships, emotional stamina, ability to read users, and the cultures that form around them. Her importance is not just that she co-founded Y Combinator, but that she helped make startup ambition socially transmissible—through dinners, interviews, Demo Days, Startup School, founder stories, and a selection culture that looked for earnestness, resilience, and social reality rather than credentials alone. [333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,b5bf8d49-c824-4741-a7fb-b1db7a6628af]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **Founders as the real substrate:** Livingston repeatedly shifts attention from ideas to the people holding them—cofounder dynamics, character, determination, earnestness, defensiveness, and whether founders can evolve as reality pushes back. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,16a3e489-85eb-46c1-9575-b1ff3ddb50fd,a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605]
- **Messy beginnings over polished myths:** Her book, talks, and podcast return to the earliest phase of companies, when founders are unsure, broke, rejected, and improvising—because that is where the useful truth about startups is most visible. [b5bf8d49-c824-4741-a7fb-b1db7a6628af,bfd4fa20-e265-4acd-88dc-8700ab8e427c,196d4a2a-ff01-458e-ab57-0d18c5cf4186]
- **Community as startup infrastructure:** Livingston sees YC’s dinners, batch model, Startup School, Demo Day, alumni network, and recurring events not as side programming but as mechanisms that normalize ambition, spread information, and make founders less isolated. [98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,325e8740-2150-439c-9971-6919c877f176,421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6]
- **User reality as the ultimate judge:** Her practical startup advice keeps reducing to building things, talking to users, measuring whether they care, and letting user behavior force idea evolution, as in Airbnb’s path from airbeds to rooms to whole homes. [a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,cffc1531-2469-4dd9-8cb9-90415a523b13,57c3083f-58e3-4113-b9e6-f691da6316d4]
- **Rejection as the default environment:** She treats rejection from investors, press, family, and conventional observers as a normal startup condition rather than a signal to stop; YC itself, Airbnb, Pebble, Twitch, and early hardware or marketplace companies recur as examples. [2973ef73-e116-45a6-aac1-6a8f5cc0c0db,44cbc6d8-55fe-4b45-9343-083e75dd86ce,ab8c9d3c-e780-4f87-9c30-ca2eace21da0]
- **Women founders as a practical ecosystem problem:** Her Female Founders Conference work focuses on examples, confidence, advice, networks, technical access, and women-founded billion-dollar companies rather than abstract representation alone. [2394aa90-a324-452a-9d8e-56c7d744a624,57c3083f-58e3-4113-b9e6-f691da6316d4,b11c1eeb-3161-4876-b1ac-1167248c3605]
- **Non-obvious founder shapes:** “Grow the Puzzle Around You” crystallizes her interest in people whose strengths do not match the media template of a founder—nontechnical, quiet, late-blooming, or oddly shaped—but who can build a world around their actual strengths. [333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,7ebe10d6-ab9c-45a1-9850-d6014679407b,b88d6ed4-e0cc-4a25-9fc4-386c9bd6ce35]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Character is investable signal:** Livingston’s “social radar” is a theory that early-stage investing needs judgment about people—BS detection, founder interaction, moral character, toughness, and whether founders are earnest—because metrics often do not exist yet. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,bfd4fa20-e265-4acd-88dc-8700ab8e427c]
- **Cofounders are a foundation, not a staffing choice:** She argues that ideas can change far more easily than cofounders, so founders should choose people they know well, trust, have worked with, and share ambitions and moral outlook with. [a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,9d3f8793-2301-4ad3-9073-9b65a59b4745,d880d93d-789a-4d66-87ee-c73f731de36e]
- **Determination has two parts:** Her account of startup survival splits determination into resilience against rejection and drive through novel problems, with founders needing both to withstand skepticism and improvise when no playbook exists. [2973ef73-e116-45a6-aac1-6a8f5cc0c0db,c8ee079b-d257-4d19-9cd9-c8ba13f915e,a5cc32ce-8ef3-4b4e-a679-5b714a975f16]
- **Make something people want, then focus brutally:** She treats user demand and focus as non-negotiable; founders should build, talk to users, avoid scenester distractions, and say no to the 99 plausible tasks that are not the key task. [a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,cffc1531-2469-4dd9-8cb9-90415a523b13,5962a905-108c-4c81-9918-ad20818d7669]
- **Startups reward organic knowledge:** The best ideas often grow out of founders’ own lives—Stripe from payments pain, Airbnb from hosting and rent pressure, Dropbox from a personal need—because insiders have insights outsiders lack. [cdd43d56-d550-4c20-b44f-d48f6f749725,a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,b11c1eeb-3161-4876-b1ac-1167248c3605]
- **Founders should stay financially undeluded:** Her operating advice includes living cheaply, knowing whether the company is default alive or default dead, avoiding overhiring, and recognizing that Series A investors demand performance rather than promise. [cffc1531-2469-4dd9-8cb9-90415a523b13,57c3083f-58e3-4113-b9e6-f691da6316d4,5962a905-108c-4c81-9918-ad20818d7669]
- **Benevolence can be an institutional strategy:** YC’s early founder-friendly common-stock terms, family-like treatment of founders, and willingness to ask “what’s best for the founders?” reflect her belief that helping founders deeply can compound into trust and long-term institutional advantage. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,fa3c4138-42f2-408d-8a3f-3bcdc9103586]
- **Ambition can be learned socially:** In commencement and founder talks, she argues that people can become more ambitious by finding the right people, resisting social pressure, and choosing not to drift into conventional paths. [b88d6ed4-e0cc-4a25-9fc4-386c9bd6ce35,ab8c9d3c-e780-4f87-9c30-ca2eace21da0,333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **Startups become a mainstream career path:** Livingston frames startup founding as having moved from a weird alternative to grad school or a safe job into a recognized career trajectory, with more people globally seeing it as an option. [fa3c4138-42f2-408d-8a3f-3bcdc9103586,ad50cebf-9597-4469-9848-bc707c6501f8,ab8c9d3c-e780-4f87-9c30-ca2eace21da0]
- **More women-founded giants is the long game:** Her explicit next target after more women starting startups is more women-founded billion-dollar companies, because big wins create the most powerful examples for future founders. [b11c1eeb-3161-4876-b1ac-1167248c3605,5aac90bd-5e46-45a4-9554-b0052509ae38,57c3083f-58e3-4113-b9e6-f691da6316d4]
- **Startup ecosystems spread through flywheels:** In Social Radars conversations, she probes how cities like London improve as successful founders become investors, employees become founders, and optimism becomes locally contagious. [c69cf999-1553-4305-8a9e-0d76bb5c2f9f,98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,27372f37-6b9c-4dc5-a25f-da9f70e6df5d]
- **The best future companies may start as bad-looking ideas:** Her “unicorn” model predicts that huge companies often begin as dubious, narrow, or embarrassing ideas that blossom only when driven founders recognize a frighteningly large opportunity and run toward it. [b11c1eeb-3161-4876-b1ac-1167248c3605,a7e1def2-8c7d-4f4c-a532-872056c1ee50,333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528]
- **AI will not erase the human origin of startup ideas:** In a Social Radars conversation with Paul Graham, she entertains the idea that even very capable AI may not replace all human founders because it lacks the human needs, frustrations, and social desires that generate startup ideas. [505d9807-1077-4e45-aa56-22ede9ddbf4a,f9f74c1a-b995-4480-9b6a-8f1506ba8f04]
- **Founder communities will keep mattering as YC scales:** She repeatedly notes that YC’s batch structure has changed surprisingly little since 2005, implying that the enduring mechanism is not novelty but repeated social compression: dinners, peers, advice, and investor exposure. [98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,7ebe10d6-ab9c-45a1-9850-d6014679407b,f9f74c1a-b995-4480-9b6a-8f1506ba8f04]
- **Information access makes founders more powerful:** She describes a shift toward transparency, angel networks, and educated founders who negotiate more fairly with investors rather than accepting opaque or extractive terms. [fa3c4138-42f2-408d-8a3f-3bcdc9103586,1e00acae-2297-42db-8d1c-834684d4c2c7,d880d93d-789a-4d66-87ee-c73f731de36e]

## Recurring questions

- **Can this founder read reality?** Livingston’s interview lens asks whether founders can answer questions without defensiveness, absorb feedback, educate skeptics, notice user signals, and update without collapsing. [16a3e489-85eb-46c1-9575-b1ff3ddb50fd,23744b6e-981b-4f8f-a4a9-dd41c6a359e5,f544feb6-0ce8-468c-ad93-b9d8c7757614]
- **Do the founders actually belong together?** She repeatedly asks whether cofounders trust each other, have a real working history, split equity sanely, and can survive stress without resentment or breakup. [a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,74bc6c31-c864-4bb1-b160-bf98c082358b,390cc899-4448-4be6-8c07-5cf56747e3a9]
- **Is the idea rooted in lived need?** A recurring diagnostic is whether founders are solving their own problem or have enough domain intimacy to understand users before outsiders do. [a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,cdd43d56-d550-4c20-b44f-d48f6f749725,5a9aaec1-9c73-41bb-b817-29bfa680127f]
- **How much should founders worry?** Her mentoring posture often classifies crises: normal startup pain, dangerous but fixable failure mode, or existential trouble, based on having seen similar problems across hundreds or thousands of startups. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,bc650dff-c7d4-4b4b-8da4-30243e93f9c1,fa3c4138-42f2-408d-8a3f-3bcdc9103586]
- **What should founders ignore?** She regularly asks founders to distinguish signal from distraction: press, networking, corp dev conversations, fundraising theater, competitors, and social controversy often matter less than building and talking to users. [2973ef73-e116-45a6-aac1-6a8f5cc0c0db,44cbc6d8-55fe-4b45-9343-083e75dd86ce,cffc1531-2469-4dd9-8cb9-90415a523b13]
- **What makes ambition appear?** From YC’s first batch to her Bucknell speech, she asks how people who had been drifting find a project, a peer group, or a social environment that makes ambition feel normal and possible. [b88d6ed4-e0cc-4a25-9fc4-386c9bd6ce35,ab8c9d3c-e780-4f87-9c30-ca2eace21da0,98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371]
- **How do early stories become usable knowledge?** Her work asks what founders can learn from narratives rather than formulas—what went wrong, what surprised them, how ideas changed, and what emotional conditions made perseverance possible. [b5bf8d49-c824-4741-a7fb-b1db7a6628af,bfd4fa20-e265-4acd-88dc-8700ab8e427c,ca228a1b-a09e-4eb7-aabd-a12d5f7e01ba]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Anti-template, but not anti-pattern:** Livingston rejects a single mold for founders, yet she repeatedly names recurring signals—determination, earnestness, domain expertise, openness, focus, and good cofounder dynamics. [333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,16a3e489-85eb-46c1-9575-b1ff3ddb50fd]
- **Selection versus formation:** Her social-radar role implies some founders can be recognized quickly, while YC’s batch design implies founders can be changed by peer pressure, advice, Demo Day, alumni, and the normalization of ambition. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,7ebe10d6-ab9c-45a1-9850-d6014679407b]
- **Inclusion through subjective judgment:** Her women-founder work aims to expand access and confidence, but her selection method depends heavily on personal reads of character, interaction, defensiveness, and trustworthiness. [2394aa90-a324-452a-9d8e-56c7d744a624,57c3083f-58e3-4113-b9e6-f691da6316d4,421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6]
- **Warm support with hard calls:** She presents YC as family-like, founder-friendly, and emotionally supportive, while also describing blunt judgments, vetoes, red flags, and cases where she has little hope for a company. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,bc650dff-c7d4-4b4b-8da4-30243e93f9c1,505d9807-1077-4e45-aa56-22ede9ddbf4a]
- **Oral history versus doctrine:** Her signature method is listening to messy founder stories, but her talks transform those stories into compact rules: make something people want, focus, live cheaply, choose cofounders carefully, and know if you are default alive. [b5bf8d49-c824-4741-a7fb-b1db7a6628af,c8ee079b-d257-4d19-9cd9-c8ba13f915e,cffc1531-2469-4dd9-8cb9-90415a523b13]
- **Quiet background work versus public credit:** She identifies with quiet, behind-the-scenes contribution and warns that quiet founders can be ignored, yet her own later talks and interviews explicitly correct the under-crediting of her role in YC. [2394aa90-a324-452a-9d8e-56c7d744a624,16a3e489-85eb-46c1-9575-b1ff3ddb50fd,333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528]
- **Small beginnings versus institutional scale:** She celebrates YC’s scrappy first dinners, wet paint, grocery runs, and tiny investor audiences, while later evidence shows YC becoming a scaled institution with massive brand, thousands of companies, and global network effects. [333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,ca228a1b-a09e-4eb7-aabd-a12d5f7e01ba]

## Unifying threads

- **Human systems theory of startups:** Across YC, Founders at Work, Female Founders Conference talks, and Social Radars, Livingston’s deepest throughline is that startups are made of people under extreme conditions, so character, relationships, and emotional endurance are causal variables. [8823d483-917a-445a-8eba-d619f7de3a33,421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,31416eec-b42e-48ef-97fd-6e423a0ee119]
- **Stories as pattern-recognition machinery:** Her interviews are not nostalgia; they are a way to collect edge cases, failures, pivots, surprises, and founder emotions until they become practical judgment. [b5bf8d49-c824-4741-a7fb-b1db7a6628af,bfd4fa20-e265-4acd-88dc-8700ab8e427c,16a3e489-85eb-46c1-9575-b1ff3ddb50fd]
- **Ambition needs social permission:** YC’s core invention, in her telling, was not only small checks but a social environment where strange young founders, dubious ideas, and high ambition could stop feeling embarrassing. [98292262-a648-4fb3-9389-fc8fae02d371,333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,b88d6ed4-e0cc-4a25-9fc4-386c9bd6ce35]
- **The non-obvious is where advantage lives:** She repeatedly prizes dubious ideas, weird founder shapes, unglamorous work, and neglected communities because conventional observers systematically miss them until results make them legible. [333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,b11c1eeb-3161-4876-b1ac-1167248c3605,7ebe10d6-ab9c-45a1-9850-d6014679407b]
- **Care and rigor are not opposites:** Her model combines maternal founder support, trust, and community warmth with strict focus on users, hard truths about failure, and sharp reads of bad character. [421cc548-3b0b-4371-a50b-b85f662e53e6,a9ab70d4-2a42-42e9-acb0-1aa0758a0605,57c3083f-58e3-4113-b9e6-f691da6316d4]
- **Do the unglamorous work that creates leverage:** Incorporation paperwork, groceries, air conditioners, dinner logistics, event planning, pitch practice, and founder introductions recur as mundane actions that produced institutional compounding. [7ebe10d6-ab9c-45a1-9850-d6014679407b,333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,b1eb28a2-037f-4de0-9719-41ba3af98443]
- **Grow from your actual shape:** The “puzzle” metaphor unifies her career advice and startup theory: do not contort yourself into a template; identify your real strengths, interests, relationships, and constraints, then build a context where they become unusually valuable. [333fb2ac-a580-49bf-b1ef-e489c073d528,7ebe10d6-ab9c-45a1-9850-d6014679407b,ab8c9d3c-e780-4f87-9c30-ca2eace21da0]

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- The Social Radars Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis · thesocialradars.com — https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S5-Ron-Conway.pdf
- Letter #85: Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston & Carolynn Levy ... · aletteraday.substack.com — https://aletteraday.substack.com/p/letter-85-paul-graham-and-jessica
- Founders at work : stories of startups' early days : Livingston, Jessica, 1971- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive · archive.org — https://archive.org/details/foundersatworkst0000livi
- The Untold Stories of Y Combinator with Co-Founder Jessica Livingston transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYFjKml9ptk
- Justin Kan, Cofounder, Twitch transcript · podcasts.apple.com — https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/justin-kan-cofounder-twitch/id1677066062?i=1000761594122
- Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator; Founder, Anybots transcript · podcasts.apple.com — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trevor-blackwell-co-founder-y-combinator-founder-anybots/id1677066062?i=1000639358747
- Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbnb transcript · podcasts.apple.com — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brian-chesky-co-founder-ceo-of-airbnb/id1677066062?i=1000627757006
- Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch transcript · podcasts.apple.com — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emmett-shear-co-founder-of-twitch/id1677066062?i=1000635708653
- Jessica Livingston: Founders At Work – Business of Software · businessofsoftware.org — https://businessofsoftware.org/talks/jessica-livingston-founders-at-work
- Jessica Livingston · foundersatwork.posthaven.com — https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/
- Saturday, · femalefoundersconference.org — http://www.femalefoundersconference.org/
- The Social Radars Justin Kan, CoFounder, Twitch · thesocialradars.com — https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S5-Justin-Kan.pdf
- How Success Happens · howsuccesshappens.libsyn.com — https://howsuccesshappens.libsyn.com/jessica-livingston-co-founder-of-y-combinator-on-putting-entrepreneurs-first
- Find Your People - Jessica Livingston · foundersatwork.posthaven.com — https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people
- Y Combinator · femalefounderstories.com — http://www.femalefounderstories.com/
- The Social Radars · pod.link — https://pod.link/1677066062
- The Secrets of Y Combinator’s Early Success (with YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston) : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator · ycombinator.com — https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ke-the-secrets-of-y-combinator-s-early-success-with-yc-co-founder-jessica-livingston
- Jessica Livingston on how to build the future : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator · ycombinator.com — https://www.ycombinator.com/library/JB-jessica-livingston-on-how-to-build-the-future
- Full Episode: Emmet Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch / JustinTV with YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston — The Social Radars Podcast — Rosetta · rosetta.to — https://rosetta.to/u/thesocialradars/full-episode-emmet-shear-co-founder-of-twitch-justintv-with-yc-co-founder-jessic
- GitHub - rkirti/YCFemaleFounders2015: Live transcription from YC's Female Founders 2015 Conference · github.com — https://github.com/rkirti/YCFemaleFounders2015
- Priced right: · soundcloud.com — https://soundcloud.com/akharris/startup-school-radio-ep-23-jessica-livingston-zenflow
- The Social Radars Peter Reinhardt, CEO & co-founder, Charm · thesocialradars.com — https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S5-Peter-Reinhardt.pdf
- TSR S5 Paul Graham · thesocialradars.com — https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S5-Paul-Graham.pdf
- What Goes Wrong by Jessica Livingston · founderstribune.org — https://www.founderstribune.org/p/what-goes-wrong-by-jessica-livingston
- Buy on Amazon · foundersatwork.com — http://www.foundersatwork.com/interviews.html
- What's Different about "Unicorns" - Jessica Livingston · foundersatwork.posthaven.com — https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/whats-different-about-unicorns
- Jessica Livingston's Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail | Y Combinator · ycombinator.com — https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/how-not-to-fail
- Interview: Y Combinator Founder Jessica Livingston : The Next Women - Jessica Livingston · foundersatwork.posthaven.com — https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/interview-y-combinator-founder-jessica-living
- The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host) transcript · podcasts.apple.com — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-social-radar-y-combinators-secret-weapon-jessica/id1627920305?i=1000660424258
- Picture · foundersatwork.com — http://www.foundersatwork.com/blog/what-goes-wrong
- Why I Love Startup School - Jessica Livingston · foundersatwork.posthaven.com — https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/why-i-love-startup-school
- FULL EPISODE: Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits & Rippling w YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston — The Social Radars Podcast — Rosetta · rosetta.to — https://rosetta.to/u/thesocialradars/full-episode-parker-conrad-founder-of-zenefits-rippling-w-yc-co-founder-jessica-
- Founder Mode: Emmett Shear, Founder, Softmax & Twitch — The Social Radars Podcast — Rosetta · rosetta.to — https://rosetta.to/u/thesocialradars/founder-mode-emmett-shear-founder-softmax-twitch
- Jessica Livingston Introduces Startup School SV 2014 — Y Combinator · rosetta.to — https://rosetta.to/u/ycombinator/jessica-livingston-introduces-startup-school-sv-2014
- Oops, that did not work as expected. · thenextwomen.com — http://thenextwomen.com/2009/05/01/interview-y-combinator-founder-jessica-livingston
- Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q2uh1BlqKA
- Jaba's Un-blog · jabas-unblog.blogspot.com — https://jabas-unblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/founders-at-work.html
- Lemonodor: Founders at Work · lemonodor.com — http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/01/founders_at_work_1.html
- Founders At Work Digest complete - Scrollin' On Dubs · scrollinondubs.com — https://scrollinondubs.com/2007/06/01/founders-at-work-digest-complete
- Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · ycombinator.com — https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/jessica-livingston-shares-9-things-she-learned-from-founding-yc
- Founders at Work · doi.org — https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0327-8
- Founders at Work: a post a day for the month of May - Scrollin' On Dubs · scrollinondubs.com — https://scrollinondubs.com/2007/05/01/founders-at-work-a-post-a-day-for-the-month-of-may
- Contents at a Glance - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days [Book] · oreilly.com — https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/founders-at-work/9781590597149/Contents.html
- Book Review: Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston - Chip Griffin · chipgriffin.com — https://www.chipgriffin.com/2007/05/30/book-review-founders-at-work-by-jessica-livingston
- FollowSteph.com – Founders At Work · followsteph.com — https://www.followsteph.com/2007/09/09/founders-at-work
- Books in Brief · strategy-business.com — https://www.strategy-business.com/article/07312
- Book review: Founders at Work | Scott Berkun · scottberkun.com — https://scottberkun.com/2007/book-review-founders-at-work
- Founders at Work · blog.stealthmode.com — https://blog.stealthmode.com/2007/04/founders-at-work
- Startups: Why What You Build Is Less Important Than Who You Build It With · onstartups.com — https://www.onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/1191/Startups-Why-What-You-Build-Is-Less-Important-Than-Who-You-Build-It-With.aspx
- Foreword - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days [Book] · oreilly.com — https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/founders-at-work/9781590597149/Foreword.html
- How to Do Philosophy - Paul Graham · paulgraham.com — https://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
- Stories of Startups' Early Days | Jessica Livingston | Talks at Google — Talks at Google — Rosetta · rosetta.to — https://rosetta.to/u/talksatgoogle/stories-of-startups-early-days-jessica-livingston-talks-at-google
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days [Book] · oreilly.com — https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/founders-at-work/9781590597149
- Founders at Work - @graysky · graysky.org — https://graysky.org/2007/04/founders-at-work
- Time Rich or Time Poor? | Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog · lsvp.wordpress.com — https://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/time-rich-or-time-poor
- The Equity Equation - Venture Hacks · venturehacks.com — https://venturehacks.com/equity-equation
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