Airbnb founder targeted in example
Sam quotes Altman's 2014 Stanford class formula for a startup's odds: idea times product times execution times team times luck, where luck is a random number between 0 and 10,000.
“the formula for estimating a startup's chance of success is something like idea times product times execution times team times luck, where luck is a random number between 0 and 10,000.”
Sam describes a process he used to land an Airbnb interview: generate ~100 first+last+@domain email permutations in a spreadsheet, paste them into Gmail, and let Rapportive reveal which address surfaced the real social profile.
“And so I invented this thing, this process called stalk and talk. And the idea was I was going to use it to help me get a job at a company. I made this spreadsheet where I would put someone's first name, their last name, and then their URL, like @airbnb.com. And like, I would put Brian and then Chesky and then @airbnb.com, and it would give me like 100 possible combinations of what the name or his email could be. And then I would put it in Gmail and I would highlight each one and Reportive would tell me which email is his because it would show the social profiles related to each email. I ended up emailing the founders of Airbnb, an interview there using Reportive.”
Steal thisGenerate every plausible email permutation for a target, paste them into Gmail, and use an enrichment tool to spot which one resolves to a real profile.