This is wonderful. AND In the context of your ongoing Twitter discussions, acknowledging other amazing women founders can also be done.
I just reread this essay from 2015 and I'm really glad I wrote it. The conclusion is both startling and inescapable, which is something one always hopes for an in essay, but rarely gets to this extent. http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html
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//We thought Airbnb was a bad idea. We funded it because we liked the founders.// I might have read that and quoted that without your permission at many of my team meetings and talks..this essay was a classic Paul
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“Socrates avoided talking out of his ass, and when he said something, you can be sure that he knew it’s true”
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I visited YC Cambridge in 08 and it *was* like a family, e.g. communal meals. "We'd refuse to fund founders whose characters we had doubts about even if we thought they'd be successful." Curious - did they tend to achieve success as founders?
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No. So it turned out to be safer than we realized.
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Any examples on the critical questions that Jessica would ask founders that ended up revealing important clues about the founders?
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Can we turn Jessica’s focus towards finding/recruiting the right collection of people to run as candidates and then fix government .....
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