Startup Advice Get Out of Chicago, Go to California!

What this video covers

This video features Nicholas Schrock, founder of Dagster Labs, discussing his career path and giving advice to founders, including where to build a startup. He also delves into insights from his time at Facebook and the future of AI data platforms.

Transcript

Let's say, you know, it's that moment where you are, let's say, you know, like um coming out of um Chicago of the startup that you were working at and thinking about launching something of your own. And let's say you're able to give that younger self one piece of advice for launching a business. >> I guess the what I would tell my Chicago self is like, listen, you think you're real hot you're not like go go go to where the network is. Go to where the best people are in the world at this stuff and learn from them. You can't come up with this on your own. Um you're not you're not that guy. So go like get out to California and get around all the A players that you can find in in tech. Um, that's what I would that's what I would have uh told myself um is like respect the network. It's like everything. Get get over yourself and get around the people who you're going to learn from and

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