Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

If something excites you, go for it.

I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.