Quotes by Jessica Livingston

About Jessica Livingston:

Jessica Livingston is an author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She also organizes Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.
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Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with a billion barrels (or some huge number, so in other words, some low probability that they would actually be killed), how much...

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A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

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Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

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Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

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Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a w...

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Author Bio

  • NameJessica Livingston
  • DescriptionAmerican businesswoman and writer
  • Born1971