Science & Technology

Tom Preston-Werner with Chris Dixon: Building Companies and Developer Communities

Published

5 years ago

June 10, 2020

In a virtual fireside chat, a16z General Partner Chris Dixon and GitHub and Chatterbug Cofounder Tom Preston-Werner discuss “Building Companies and Developer Communities.” Preston-Werner explains how the open-source ethos is a great way to build social virality among developers, and how the clean, developer-focused interface of GitHub led to its wide adoption and caused developers to demand it within their own organizations. He also offers marketing lessons from the early days of GitHub, when the company used informal methods of building community, such as hosting “drink-ups” at local bars in a bid to create “superfans.” He urges founders to view a company’s brand as an expression of its core beliefs, with a focus on how it helps its users succeed. The reason people would put a sticker on their laptop or wear a company tee-shirt is because of “what they believe they are communicating to others with that sticker or shirt … it’s a shortcut for communicating values.”

Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants from around the U.S. and overseas in a seven-week course to learn how to build crypto companies. Andreessen Horowitz is partnering with TechCrunch to release the online version of the course over the next few weeks.

Find more Crypto Startup School videos plus additional reading and info:

Up Next

Huawei’s P40 Pro Plus review: Is this the best phone camera?

Don't Miss

Tina Ferguson: Managing Distributed Workforces

5 Comments

HeyItsMe

June 10, 2020 at 7:56 pm

Nice video keep it up V7qY

Reply
SocialBounty Make Money App

June 10, 2020 at 7:56 pm

Nice video keep it up V7qY

Reply
greyes11

June 10, 2020 at 8:38 pm

this guy completely missed the crypto layup on the financing open source question….. biases are crazy

Reply
- greyes11
  
  June 10, 2020 at 8:55 pm
  
  The talk he references as a great way to build products highlights how we will ignore
  new methods for actions/decisions we have already mastered because relearning the new action is too cognitively taxing
  
  Reply
kaan bingöl

June 13, 2020 at 5:26 pm

We are currently trying to build for Architects in Istanbul . I am ready to answer your questions.

Reply

CNET

OpenAI’s Sora AI Video Generator First Look

I tried OpenAI’s Sora AI Video Generator and was blown away by the results but underwhelmed by the limited number of high-resolution video generations and durations. Read more on CNET.com: OpenAI Kicks Off a New Era With Sora AI Videos 0:00 Intro 0:13 ChatGPT Plus and Pro Pricing 0:29 Sora Explore Section 0:58 Sora Your…

Published

1 day ago

December 21, 2024

CYBER TECH TV

I tried OpenAI’s Sora AI Video Generator and was blown away by the results but underwhelmed by the limited number of high-resolution video generations and durations.

Read more on CNET.com:
OpenAI Kicks Off a New Era With Sora AI Videos

0:00 Intro
0:13 ChatGPT Plus and Pro Pricing
0:29 Sora Explore Section
0:58 Sora Your Library Section
1:06 Sora Toolbar Features
2:40 How To Generate a 480p AI Video
4:04 How To Manage Your AI Generated Videos
5:07 How To Generate a 720p AI Video
7:05 How To Upload and Animate Still Images
9:36 Sora AI Video Generation Limitations
10:30 Final Thoughts on Sora
11:24 Competitors to Sora

Subscribe to CNET on YouTube:
Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉
Check out CNET’s Amazon Storefront:
Follow us on TikTok:
Follow us on Instagram:
Follow us on X:
Like us on Facebook:
CNET’s AI Atlas:
Visit CNET.com:

#openai #chatgpt #sora #generativeai #aivideo

Science & Technology

Break the Bad News Bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey | TED

In a quick talk, he shares three major updates of recent human progress on eradicating ancient diseases, establishing massive new ocean sanctuaries and transforming children’s rights. (This conversation was recorded on December 2, 2024.) If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: Follow…

Published

1 day ago

December 21, 2024

CYBER TECH TV

If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas:

Follow TED!
X:
Instagram:
Facebook:
LinkedIn:
TikTok:

The TED Talks channel features talks, performances and original series from the world’s leading thinkers and doers. Subscribe to our channel for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.

Watch more:

TED’s videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy: . For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at

#TED #TEDTalks

Science & Technology

The Greatest Show on Earth — for Kids Who Need It Most | Sahba Aminikia | TED

TED Fellow and composer Sahba Aminikia brings the healing power of dance, storytelling, music and performance to some of the most dangerous places on Earth. By celebrating children and their communities with beauty and joy, he shows how to cultivate hope, connection and love — even in conflict zones. “The ultimate power is in unity,”…

Published

2 days ago

December 20, 2024

CYBER TECH TV