Founder's Wisdom: 5 Lessons from Silicon Valley's Biggest Names

If Mark Zuckerberg hadn’t built Facebook, he probably would’ve taken an engineering job at Microsoft.

At least that’s what he told a packed audience of budding entrepreneurs and hackers at Startup School, the annual one-day conference hosted by Y Combinator at Stanford University. Zuckerberg was one of 12 prominent tech figures offering their perspectives and advice to the invite-only crowd. Speakers included both founders (Pinterest’s Ben Silbermann, Uber’s Travis Kalanick, GitHub’s Tom Preston-Werner) and funders (SV Angel’s Ron Conway, Andreesen Horowitz’s Ben Horowitz and Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston).

Here are five valuable takeaways for entrepreneurs:

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