What Big Tech Missed And How Startups Can Still Win

In this talk from Startup School Paris, AMI CEO Alexandre LeBrun talks about his journey building Vertos, selling Wit.ai to Facebook, and why the best advice for early founders is to pick an extremely narrow problem while holding an extremely large vision with the space. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters: 00:00 — Intro 00:33 — Same YC batch, four companies later 01:40 — Zuckerberg's email in the spam folder 02:14 — The YC rule on acquisition talks 03:04 — Always 20 years too early 04:45 — Play to your strengths