Videos
Talks, interviews, and TV appearances from the last two decades. Keynotes about e-commerce, fireside chats about startups, Norwegian breakfast television, and a few artifacts the internet refuses to forget.
500 Startups · COMMERCISM 2014
Five Ways To Kill An e-Commerce Startup
The greatest hits of e-commerce mistakes, delivered while I was actively making several of them. My most-watched talk by a wide margin, which says something about how many people are out there killing e-commerce startups.
TV 2 · Norwegian breakfast television
Working with Norwegians on God Morgen Norge
The American explains Norwegians to Norwegians, on live Norwegian television, before coffee. Somehow they let me plug the book anyway.
500 Startups Vietnam · full event
The Overthrow of Myspace
The full story of what it was like inside Myspace while Facebook ate our lunch — told to a room of founders in Ho Chi Minh City. History is written by the losers too, and we have better anecdotes.
Hack Reactor
How to Raise a Seed Round
Practical fundraising advice from my 500 Startups years. The tactics have aged better than the valuations.
Startup Grind · fireside chat
Startup Grind Gothenburg
A long-form fireside on investing, the Nordics, and why I kept coming back to Scandinavia until I eventually just stayed.
A-Level Capital
Startup Sesh EP02
A casual session on startups and investing from the 500 Startups era.
PitchPerfect Silicon Valley
On Stalkers & Bitcoin
An interview from peak Silicon Valley weirdness, covering internet stalkers and Bitcoin — two subjects that have only gotten more relevant.
MOOFACES TV
How to Start a Company
Founder-to-founder advice on getting a company off the ground.
Life in Perpetual Beta
The Reinvention of Myspace, the Tech Space, and Sean Percival
A 2011 conversation from the middle of the Myspace turnaround attempt. Spoiler: the reinvention did not take, but the lessons did.
The archive's deepest cut
Sean Percival, by Loic Le Meur
A 17-year-old artifact from the early days of tech video blogging, courtesy of Loic Le Meur. Included for historical completeness and maximum embarrassment.