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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Sep 2015
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      Your periodic reminder that most money in software comes from solving boring problems with ridiculous dollar amounts attached to them.

      3 replies 77 retweets 120 likes
    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Sep 2015
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      Here "boring" is a term of art: the life's work of millions of people historically, not interesting to modal 22 year old in Valley.

      1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
    3. Rod Fitzsimmons Frey‏ @rodfrey 25 Sep 2015
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      @patio11 I love your writing, read it always. But the abundance of good solid business ideas you see all around you is hidden from me.

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    4. Rod Fitzsimmons Frey‏ @rodfrey 25 Sep 2015
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      @patio11 Sometimes it reads like advising gold miner wannabes - "OK, find a spot with lots of gold. Now here's how you mine it."

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Sep 2015
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      @rodfrey This is probably a consequence of me thinking that business ideas are close to valueless relative to patient execution.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Sep 2015
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      @rodfrey Find something in the real economy. Do it better, with software. The real economy is a truly vast possibility space.

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    7. Rod Fitzsimmons Frey‏ @rodfrey 25 Sep 2015
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      @patio11 That makes sense, but there's a lot of hubris thinking we can wander into an industry and "do it better".

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    8. Rod Fitzsimmons Frey‏ @rodfrey 25 Sep 2015
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      @patio11 I'm currently 2 years into a real-economy business, and I can't believe how arrogant I was with my original timelines

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    9. Rod Fitzsimmons Frey‏ @rodfrey 25 Sep 2015
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      @patio11 In fact it's this experience that turned me away from the all-ideas-are-equal mantra

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    10. Rod Fitzsimmons Frey‏ @rodfrey 25 Sep 2015
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      @patio11 I think you might have a significant (and maybe unexamined?) gift in seeing and recognizing feasible ideas.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Sep 2015
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      @rodfrey Of all the things I'm possibly good at, picking lucrative business ideas seems hardest to square with my career to date. ;)

      8:09 AM - 25 Sep 2015
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