one of the memories that most makes me feel like an enormous schmuck is it being 1995 and i'm founding a dumbass mom-and-pop ISP with my wife and mother-in-law and telling them how badly the market needs something that is, in every significant regard, PayPal
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the moral of the story is, when you know in your gut what the market *really needs*, don't let anything so stupid and biddable as the law daunt you
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imagine a world in which your father owned an emerald mine in 1995; in such a world, you probably would've been the inventor of PayPal
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son of mine owner == jeenius QED
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They were able to attract funding, and figure out how to work the political system. The government had been making noises about shutting them down for years. Assume they knew who and how to grease, and had help doing so.
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A company like Paypal or Facebook or Twitter has only a small fraction to do with the right idea at the right time, and even only a small fraction to do with good implementation. It's also sheer luck of momentum, which is unpredictably random.
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