Reddit IPO: 8 Startup Lessons For Any Entrepreneur Starting Out

Use Sam's secret growth sauce: get more traffic for your biz with HubSpot's Free Landing Page Builder 🔥 https://clickhubspot.com/x76 Episode 565: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) are dropping an emergency pod to break down Paul Graham’s essay about Reddit’s IPO yesterday. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:59) If you want to learn, teach. (3:45) Show up – the ultimate high agency move (5:54) Trust your gut (7:47) How to get the best ideas (14:00) Don’t be precious about the name (14:53) How Reddit faked early traction (18:15) Talent filters (21:07) “The best products are you pushed out” (25:13) We read Chris Sacca’s early emails (28:02) Reddit’s exits to Conde Nast, then buys it back (30:50) 19 years later and still not profitable — Links: • Y Combinator - https://www.ycombinator.com/ • "The Reddits" - https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-reddits • Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/ • Paul Graham Essays - https://paulgraham.com/articles.html • Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire global talent (like Shaan does) and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than their US equivalents. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth 💰 Pitch your startup for a shot at a $1M investment with Sam Parr as the MC https://clickhubspot.com/pitch My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano