Y Combinator Startup School 2008 – A Runaway Success!

by leslie

Startup School is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups. Held on 19th April 2008, a crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium for a chance to pick the minds of tech-industry greats in this fourth installment of the Y Combinator’s Startup School.

This year’s speakers include:

  • Sam Altman (Loopt),
  • Marc Andreesesen (Ning, Netscape, Mosaic),
  • Jeff Bezos (Amazon),
  • Paul Buchheit (FriendFeed, Gmail),
  • Paul Graham (Y Combinator),
  • David Heinemeier Hansson (37Signals, Rails),
  • David Lawee (Google, Xfire),
  • Jack Sheridan (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati),
  • Greg McAdoo (Sequoia),
  • Peter Norvig (Google), and
  • Michael Arrington (TechCrunch).

The list of the speakers’ videos are @ http://omnisio.com/startupschool08

To read about the highlights of the event, visit the original article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/19/packed-house-at-y-combinator-startup-school/

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  • http://alextoh.wordpress.com Alex Toh

    Looks like we’ve been reading the same feeds. Was watching the videos over the weekend and I must echo the same thoughts, that its a runaway success…pity nothing like that in Singapore

  • http://alextoh.wordpress.com Alex Toh

    Looks like we’ve been reading the same feeds. Was watching the videos over the weekend and I must echo the same thoughts, that its a runaway success…pity nothing like that in Singapore

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