Below is the video of Jessica Livingston at Business of Software 2008. Jessica talks about lessons learned from her interviews with, among others, Paul Graham, Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor and Joel Spolsky.
Jessica Livingstone
Jessica Livingston is an American 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. She is a 1989 graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover.
In early 2007, Livingston released Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days, a collection of interviews with famous startup founders, including Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor, Ray Ozzie, and Max Levchin.
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