Book Five: Learn
learn from the best, not the rest
Your Education is Just Beginning
Malaysian universities teach you to be employees. YouTube University teaches you to be founders.
The best startup education is free, online, and taught by people who actually built billion-dollar companies. Not professors who've never shipped a product.
Here's your real MBA.
The Essential Curriculum
Y Combinator Startup School
Free. The accelerator that created Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox teaching you their exact playbook. If you only take one course, make it this.
YC Essential Startup Advice
The concentrated wisdom. How to get ideas, build products, find users, and grow. No fluff, just what works.
How to Start a Startup (Stanford)
Sam Altman's legendary Stanford course. Features founders of Reddit, Pinterest, and more. University-level depth, practitioner-level insight.
Slidebean
Real startup case studies. See exactly how companies succeeded or failed. Learn from their pitch decks, strategies, and mistakes.
HubSpot Startup Resources
Practical guides on sales, marketing, and growth. Less philosophy, more tactics. Useful when you need to figure out the "how".
Paul Graham Essays
The godfather of YC. His essays shaped how Silicon Valley thinks. Start with "Do Things That Don't Scale" and "How to Get Startup Ideas".
The Unspoken Truth About Learning
Malaysians love certificates. Degrees. Credentials. Proof that they "learned" something.
Silicon Valley doesn't give a shit about your certificates. They care about what you built.
The best way to learn isn't to watch these videos. It's to watch one video, then immediately apply it. Launch something. See what breaks. Fix it. Repeat.
Learn in Public
The secret weapon of fast learners: they learn in public. They share their journey. Their failures. Their insights.
This terrifies Malaysians. We're taught to only show success. To hide our learning process. To pretend we knew it all along.
But learning in public attracts mentors. Builds your network. Creates opportunities. Most importantly, it forces you to actually understand what you're learning.
Start a build log. Tweet your progress. Share your failures. The internet rewards authenticity, not perfection.
Never Stop Learning
The moment you think you know enough is the moment you start dying.
Technology changes. Markets evolve. What worked yesterday won't work tomorrow. The only constant is change.
But here's the beautiful thing: if you've made it through these five books, you already have what most people lack.
The mindset to fail. The urgency to ship. The tools to build. The courage to launch. And now, the resources to keep growing.
You're ready. Now go build something that matters.
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