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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. keep iterating until its 1.1