Thank you for coming in at nine o'clock, it's an early start. As Kevin mentioned, my name is Kirsty Nathoo and I am the CFO here at Y Combinator. I've actually helped now, 2,000 companies almost as they've come through Y Combinator. Seen a lot of successes and seen a lot of failures. I'm going to help you just understand some of the big mistakes that we see some of these companies doing based on their cash and based on their money.
For every business, whether it's a startup or a mom and pop shop, cash is it's life blood. It's actually surprisingly easy to run out of cash. We see many startups not realize that they have done that until it's too late to actually be able to turn it around and do something about it.
We're going to talk about these three early stage pitfalls. And then we'll talk through another three that as you start to raise money and are starting to think about hiring, some other mistakes that companies make. We're going to look at what the numbers you should be looking at, how often you should be looking at them, whether your expenses are realistic. Then thinking a little bit more about hiring and looking at responsibilities. The first mistake is really not knowing what numbers to look at to make sure that the health of your company is good.
I thought this was an action-packed, fast-paced, dense episode with a lot of moving parts! Is it possible that you were underwhelmed because there was not much fin talk in the episode? Dollar Bill was trying to pull the pharmaceutical trade but it was more about a hilarious side plot than all else.
I also enjoyed, as much as I am rooting for Bryan, how the brains at the SDNY office came together to beat Bryan to Boyd and Spartan-Ives. Finally, I loved the chemistry between Taylor and Oscar and the way they were turned on by a Star Wars conversation and a round of Netrunner! I think they understand each other better than anyone would understand them. Besides, Taylor may have felt better to feel more human than ever after last episode's events. I wonder if they would give Oscar a call 🙂 By the way, the show feels more and more like an ensemble one this season with the leads not having necessarily more screen time than the so-called supporting characters.
Later, Kara calls her to tell her Greg wants to see her, but fails to tell her she is on speaker and Greg is listening before MJ calls him a fat ass! When she informs MJ that Greg heard her, MJ immediately heads to the office. Greg tells her he's not perfect with race, but he's not a racist. He also tells her he's advocated for her and throws in that he has taken note of her routine tardiness to the office and failure to come in early to prepare, coming in just before the show begins. But alas, he also tells her she will be back on the air on Monday.
So she has her hairdresser give her a fresh look with a cute bob, and prepares to return to her audience. On her first day back the teleprompter stops working and she has to freestyle it! But she keeps her composure and does a stellar job like the pro she is! #MJIsBack Though she isn't too happy about the numbers Kara shared later in the episode. The show is in last place, but Kara reminds her they've always been in last place and are competitive in their demographics . But she receives nothing but compliments on her return from friends, family, and social media.
She also starts coming into the office early, beating everyone else in. What you want to avoid is making things personal, right? This one's kind of easy to understand, it is that someone not owning responsibility about the problem. We can't move forward because someone won't admit that there is a problem out there. We defend that we haven't done anything wrong, and therefore there can't be resolution between two people if the other person thinks there's a problem.
This one is a super dangerous one and it's when basically you're like, "Hey I got to problem," and the person just walks away, won't engage, won't talk to you. And so there can be no way to create any kind of resolution. So just as you wouldn't do this without doing some of this, we want to make a plan. I'm going to talk about four different things that we can do that helps avoid and protect us from those four horsemen. This feels pretty straightforward but you want to do this early in the relationship with your co-founders and in the early stages of your company.
Here's our list again of the types of things that we might have problems with. And in the early stages of the startup, let's say, Adora and I are doing a startup together. Then what you want to do is just kind of say like, "Oh, who's responsible for what stuff? Season 2 dives deeper into the choices people make in to achieve and maintain power. The writing is best when it's building in intricate layers of corruption that challenge Izzie, Ron, and Nick to push their moral compass to the edge in order to save the company and, in some situations, their lives. Ron Perlman joins the cast as Wes Chandler, a powerful investor who comes in and changes the dynamic deliciously.
What we think is power quickly shifts as promises are made and broken due to circumstances created by greed. The audience is now solidly invested in Ron, Izzie, and Nick, and it's gutting when these characters make choices that hurt one another on purpose. The stakes for each challenge are so high that you can't help but watch another episode to see how things get resolved. Hands down Edi Gathegi, who plays Ron, the heart of the show. He brings such emotional intelligence and depth to Ron that the audience can't help but love this troubled soul. Controlled by the wealthy 1%, the 21st century "gold rush" resides in the tech industry.
If you're savvy enough to create, market, and sell the next big tech idea, you can achieve the American Dream, but what's the cost? In Episode 1, "Seed Money," we meet Izzy Morales , a brilliant coder who dropped out of Stanford to focus full time on developing her form of cryptocurrency, Gencoin. While seeking funding at a bank, Izzy meets Nick Talman , a loan manager who is unsatisfied with his mediocre life. Initially, Nick wants no part of hiding his crooked father's ill-gotten funds, but Dad convinces Nick that his life is in danger, so Nick decides to try to hide the money by investing in Gencoin.
Just as the money is transferred, Nick unexpectedly receives a late-night visit from Ronald Dacey , one of his father's investors, who is also the leader of a violent Hatian gang. Ronald wants the money he gave to Nick's dad to invest, returned in cash… or else. Season 3 brings in a new psychopathic NSA agent, Rebecca Stroud . The series is in this really great sweet spot where a super scary storyline reveals new reasons why we should all be calling Congress to demand that big tech be regulated, like yesterday. Season 3 is provocative, nerve-wracking, and engaging in a way that surprised me and left me wanting more. The last episode of Season 3 ends in a way that seems like there was going to be a Season 4, but perhaps production was halted due to the pandemic.
As I write this review, StartUp is rated #3 in popularity on Netflix. I hope Netflix is listening and will bring the team together for a Season 4. But this time, please invite some Black, Brown, and women writers into your writers room. In Season 1, the series attempts to display the rich West-Indian culture, which is missed in stories about Black Americans, but the entire writing team are white guys and it shows. Unfortunately, this aspect of the show falls short. I wonder if white male writers find guilty pleasure in writing dialogue where the Black characters use the N-word on each other over and over and over and over again.
I also find it interesting how much, since The Wire, white male writers love to place Black men in gangs and create violent shootouts to resolve conflict. In one episode, Ron ends up killing at least nine Black men with an automatic pistol. The majority of the people who get violently shot and killed by bullets in this series are Black men.
Setting the story in Florida provides the opportunity to invite ethnic diversity into the narrative and is the perfect background for the corruption, backstabbing, and intense characters the Sunshine State is famous for. And in many ways, the character-driven story Marquardt tells is a return to form for a show that excelled most in a debut season focused on a law-student escort played by Riley Keough. You are the CEO of a company that prides itself on protecting the identities of it's users and also what they get up to on the internet. Wes throws a big party in the hopes of wooing new investors. Nick embarks on a secretive mission to save the company.
An encounter with someone from Mara's past sends her into an emotional tailspin. Stroud urges Izzy to insinuate herself back into Araknet. Back in 2002, it was still a novelty to see a star of Sutherland's calibre on TV every week. He wasn't the first, but he was at the start of a trend that saw A-listers migrate to long-running, big-budget series. And while the US audience were slow to appreciate 24, we loved it in the UK, with DVD sales strong enough to convince Fox to commission more episodes of a series they had planned to axe.
And this might be super simple answers but if there is any kind of disagreement, we want to hash that out. So is our workload distributed in an optimal manner today? Do we all feel a high level of dedication and of motivation right now? And then what mechanisms are in place for providing feedback to one another?
Have we carved out time for paying down emotional debt? Do we feel like we can have these level three conversations at any time? Do we have a process in place for digging through this stuff so that we can be honest about where we are in our company? How to work together, everyone fights, so you want to make plan.
You need to figure out, what's your attachment style, what's your roles, what's your goals, and a process before emotions get involved. Use non-violent communication to share honest feedback without criticism. And then pay down emotional debt on a regular basis.
This is the most healthy way that you will make sure that things will not turn into a giant blow up. There's no doubt in my mind that there's probably some issue that the two of you, or three of you, or four of you, or God forbid seven of you are not talking about. The odd thing, too, is that Freeman, as the show's Big Bad, is largely superfluous. The prestige drama tropes swirl around him — antihero! — but the actual story seems to run in the other direction.
It's with Nick , Izzy , and Roland that the cross-cultural founding of GenCorp emerges, and each supporting character offers different strengths to the plot. "Startup" is a hacking thriller grafted onto an action movie, primarily so that Martin Freeman can walk around menacingly while speaking in an unsettlingly bland American accent. Freeman is the FBI agent — and though one cannot laud his choice of roles, he plays Phil Rask with unsettling repressed anger, a lot of it tied up in resentment towards women. Perhaps that is why episode three opens in a brothel. She also noted that showrunner Jesse Armstrong is starting to plot out how to wrap up the series.
"We're at the end of filming season three, so at this point is saying only one more," Pritchett said. However, she implied that Armstrong might stay for a fifth, noting that showrunners often stick around one season season longer than planned—"happens every time." In Startup season 3, Nick Talman and Wes Chandler need Series B funding for their tech company Araknet. Araknet loses over 60 million users because of a mysterious virus in the penultimate episode of the Crackle/Netflix show, which creates major friction between Nick and his investors.
Set amongst the unconstrained, yet opportunist streets of Miami, 'StartUp' weaves a complex and exciting narrative, featuring the high-stakes struggle of what one will do to reach ultimate success. Haha I love the way you describe Axe and Chuck, and in particular how conscience in life may be the brake in the car. I know he will do whatever it takes to bring justice but you are right that they will eat him alive and I think he may be looking for a job at some point this season. Assuming that both Axe and Chuck will save their asses, I don't see Chuck can have him back at the SDNY after this.
Orrin Bach has been inviting him to his team for a while now. I don't think either the people in high finance or law speak like that at all. The show creators have said several times that this is the way they love writing dialogue. They love referring to pop culture from movies to sports to politics to literature as well as writing song lyrics or movie quotes into dialogue. I think all of these map out to the stuff that we're going to fight about in a company. And so you, with your co-founders are going to have these issues.
The other thing that John Gottman figured out is that there's four major things we want to avoid when we're fighting. When we do these things, they will create sort of leading indicators that the relationship is in serious trouble. So basically I say like, "Hey, I'm worried about this bug and we're not going to be able to deploy on time." And someone says, "Well, I don't like your face," right?
The search for true love continued on Wednesday's Season 3 installment of "Are You the One? " Unfortunately for the show's cast, their journey in episode 5 did not get off to a good start. Following episode 4's tense matchup ceremony, Kayla makes it clear she's upset with Connor for choosing Chelsey by slapping him in the face after returning to the house. This is a weak spine for quite so much fornication, but six-and-a-half minutes in, there's already two sex scenes; by minute 13, the third. In the first scene of "Startup," a prostitute/party girl draws a rich old man to a private room so that she can show her assets to the camera.
As an act of audience's desires coming to life, the FBI agent walks in and settles down in an armchair to watch, as the nubile nameless woman rides the mostly clothed old man. It's refreshing to see TV take on big ideas from science and philosophy without dumbing them down out of deference to network executives' knee-jerk underestimation of their audience. And this immersion in an existence that blurs the line between humanity and technology can be intriguing. It's hard to say, midway through the season, whether the next five episodes will justify the patience it takes to get to that far. If your company prides itself on offering complete privacy, in my mind, there has to be a line. So in the few months since the last season, Araknet is flourishing and has become a fabulous, successful, money making company.
Ronald has moved out of Little Haiti and has bought a lovely house in a middle-to-upper-class neighbourhood and Tamara is pregnant. Nick is living with Mara and is very much in love, whilst Izzy is living on her Grandmother's farm and shacking up with a boxing tutor. "But then he told me. And it's jolly thrilling. That's all I can say." As for his fellow cast members, "They will, never, never, never know until we start ," Cox said. Skarsgard is not the only new cast member joining season three.
Per Deadline, Oscar-winner Adrien Brody will guest star this season. He's slated to play Josh Aaronson, "a billionaire activist investor who becomes pivotal in the battle for the ownership of Waystar." Waystar, of course, is the Roy family's media and hospitality empire. In Start Up Season 3, a major drift between Nick and his investors is seen. Nick Talman and Wes Chandler require Series B funding for their comapny – Araknet which is a tech company. Their business partner – Ronald Dacey is a former gangster from Miami. Some series of events lead to Araknet losing 60 million users because of a mysterious virus.
