Paul Graham on trends for the future
Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference.
"I’m going to try to do something for you guys that I’ve always resisted doing. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? What’s going to happen in the future?' I sit reading hundreds of applications from would be start-ups founders. We’ve funded 144 startups so far, of which 93 are still alive. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. I’m suppose to know what’s going on. Yet reporters ask me this question all the time and I never have a good answer for them. I realized that it was because I deliberately tried to avoid thinking consciously about trends. But I forced myself to actually try and write down a list of trends that I see."
Here's the video:
You can see other videos from Joel Spolsky, Dharmesh Shah, Seth Godin, Eric Sink, Don Norman, Geoffrey Moore, Kathy Sierra and many others on the conference web site.
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