Chamath Palihapitiya - how we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users 

"detached, egoless, focused on whats important, not living the hype, not trying to follow some lifestyle, but doing what you think is important, focusing on core value, ruthlessly prioritizing and getting people who believe in these things"

3 difficult and hard problems any consumer product has to deal with... 1) How do you get people in the front door. 2) How do you get them to an aha moment as quickly as possible and 3) How do you deliver a core product value as often as possible.

love the way this dude talks . straight forward no bs.

Employee: "I got my MBA from Harvard." Chamath: "Get the fuck out of my office."

The absence of context... the root of all misunderstanding.

If anyone is wondering, the guy from eBay he wanted to fire is/was Alex Schultz and he also has a great yc talk on growth

Short and simple. It takes heart and drive with honesty. And you have to be smart....or have secret sauce.

amazingly sharp minded individual with great advice..thank you

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2188">36:28</a> "We had a culture fortunately of experimenting and trying a ton of stuff. And we celebrated failure more than we really celebrated success."

Surprise! We built this core technology and company 20 years ago and our updated digital product and business plan hasn't changed all that much. We just had to have the tenacity and courage to wait for the window to open And by golly we were tapping at every window and door we could think of to see if it would open. We went up against others, even Nestle (who bought their way into the deal and NEVER serviced their promise, btw). Our path to success is practically unheard of! But that courage and dedication is finally starting to pay off.

amazing insight on not valuing the short term sucess, but focussing on long term success. Chamath is great.

This video is incredible. Thank you for posting it.

Your voice ! Your accent! Your dress sense! I can go on writing! Every thing is Just perfect! 🌞🌙⭐️

Chamath. We're about the same age. I understand everything you are lecturing. With respect. I'm poor and living a good Rich ways. But I understand you.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="230">3:50</a> “I don’t use the Twitter”

Are there any good videos on initial customer acquisition methods for start-ups ?

"and I own the Warriors.." lol

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1215">20:15</a> "Five minutes Im on it" We all know how this turned out XD

K Value: The letter K is for King, as in King got Kandy Krushed today in its earnings report because it was not able to deliver long term value on its one game that gave it an IPO.

this guy is amazing.

This guy is a genius of growth

If you only need to remember one thing from this video 👇 "Growth = Measure some shit, Try some shit, Test some more shit, Throw the stuff that doesn't work" It's (really) not that complicated! Questions to always keep in mind 1) What is the thing that people are here to do? 2) What is the aha moment that they want? 3) Why can I not give that to them as fast as possible?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="836">13:56</a> Too true.

I wish you would show the slides that he's talking about.

YES

good talk yo! peace.

*Unemotional and detachment towards work results, is one of the great teachings of Bhagavad Gita.*

This video was uploaded in Jan 2013, but does anyone know what date (even approximate) this talk was recorded? Thanks in advance!

I believe it's one of the very first courses Udemy had put to gain traction. They nailed it by bringing Chamath.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="987">16:27</a> - discipline of Do you really know what you are building and why? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="991">16:31</a> - how to marry things that may not be intuitive to people - but deliver value?

What a "beautiful mind" Thank you for posting.

thank you

Proud of you Sri Lankan

simply amazing

Measuring, testing, and trying things.

this dude is the GOAT at storytelling

Very insightful clip! Thanks chamath!

Straight up GOLD

Are the slides available somewhere?

Excellent video

It says course is no longer available on Udemy. Please advise where I can access the course. @

Thank you

that was so informative. can i get the lecture

Is this course still available on Udemy?

Simon sinek’s start with Why

A must watch for all our guys.

In the arena 🙃

How can I join the full course?

this dude got his shit together for sure

Brilliant

As a fan of Chamath, I must ask, was he that much more buff last time or is it just me?

The Udemy course is not accepting enrollments?

Without fb I might never have viewed so many interesting photos of tuna-bake with side salad.

I watch this twice a week

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="835">13:55</a> #truth

the course is not available anymore where can i find other online then?

Who cares whether Chamath is likable or not! He is one of the most important speakers that we've had at a GrowthHackers Conference because we can all learn a ton from this guy. I don't think anyone can claim there is a more impressive growth story than Facebook has had. He and Alex Schultz are the guys who led the charge to make it happen. I personally love the passion with which he makes his points. The only thing I've ever heard him say that I didn't violently agree with is that "Growth Hacking is BS." But that's just an opinion about a term...

Maddd alpha info here

Slides are on slideshare and lanyrd

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="455">7:35</a> That mystery guy is Alex Schultz :)

How to bring people to the door? How to get them to the "aha" moment? How to provide them with the core product value again, and again, and again.

Very insightful!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="619">10:19</a> things that scale but focus on this don't be notice yet

Difficult to grasp such videos where spaker is using slides but slides are not visible. 🙄. Eg where he talks about K values. For first 2 min, you don't know what alphabet he is talking about.

Hi Gagan, you haven't posted in a while, are you still active?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="378">6:18</a>. Best part

Preque jaquiaste el canal de titanes

Slides: www.slideshare.net/growthhackersconference/how-we-put-facebook-on-the-path-to-1-billion-users

Chamath dresses so much better now. lol

very interesting nice tell me more can you give more illustration? what should be the #1 take away from this vids?

audio please!

what was the letteR?

Owns the Warriors... I’m lost

Anybody Know when he will be publicly speaking again in Northern Ca?

very smart, love it

Luck = preparedness + opportunity divided by timing.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1268">21:08</a> the biggest key stone at Facebook at that time

I’m pretty sure this guy plays a LOT of poker. He mentioned it multiple times.

He’s so additive because he’s keeping it real ... without inhibitions ...

Addiction models

As if he's the ONLY guy responsible for it

Can anyone help me with what he is referring to by "K"? Is he talking about K-means clustering?

Love you chamath 💕

Moved to silence... :)

Two years later the Golden State Warriors won an NBA final. This guy even knew how to grow a sports franchise.

Facebook had 1.1 billion users in 2013

What is K?

slides?

I'm one of the 7 billion non users. Always have been and always will be.🙂

Your PERSONALITY equals your. REALITY. Came up with that while I was watching this. Thought I would share

do things independent of short term feedback loop!!!

Am I the only one that was thinking that he was way smaller? He is actually a tall guy

I feel like this happened with the RU-vid algorithm. RU-vid doesn’t update the algorithm with anecdotes and gut feeling, they test ideas and if the metrics increase they implement them. Problem is they didn’t realize they were optimizing a decision from years ago. The algo team was stuck in this feedback loop for their product thinking they had analyzed to such an extent no one would have the resources to compete. Then Tiktok comes along and disrupts the industry. Now my RU-vid feed is flooded with 30 second clips as RU-vid updates the algo to compete. It’s annoying as fuck but I’m glad TikTok came along to disrupt because RU-vid’s algo was causing creators to appease the algorithm and it creates content that’s fucking similar and annoying. You have the algo team make updates and a million users creating trying to figure out what the algo wants. So is the algo team making something that the market actually wants or are they fooled due to creators doing a good job pumping the metrics. I think RU-vid had a good idea, it took off, they optimize the algo thinking every increase or decrease in metrics is a direct result when there are actually a million variables why retention and viewership is actually changing. Then TikToc slips in and BAM, fucking algo collapse. Complexity on complexity of “why the fuck does our algo promote this shit again?”.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="590">9:50</a>

as good as he is, i find him pretty insufferable and his ego seems off the charts. really takes away from his message, imo.

The Rich are rich not because they look rich, but rather becAuse they possess the skills and strategies of the rich.The rich invest their money first into asset first before purchasing liabilities.the rich build multiple incOme streams to diversify thier income.....

yolo

I don't trust him after he made SPACs that immediatly failed, making him richer but retail investors poorer

warren buffet of our generation

This guy is the shit!!!