Love the reference to a new startup called "Reddit"
I wrote this immediately after the first YC batch and hadn't read it since. It's so strange to hear myself being surprised by things that everyone now takes for granted. http://paulgraham.com/sfp.html
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From the end of the essay: "Power is shifting from the people who deal with money to the people who create technology" Do you think that shift happened / is still happening?
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Yes and it is accelerating. Elon is on track to being the richest person in the world and at the same time making jokes about people ejaculating at a Jack in the Box. An HBS student who made the same joke would be expelled.
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Key take-aways: - you need less money than you think - passion & grit over age or experience - if you’re nimble & early, competitors shouldn’t scare you - redoing code means progress not failure So many things we take for granted today
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“Redid” code for the 2.0 update regarding adding cross-platform multiplayer and I’d say that progress is not the word I’d describe how I’m feeling rn, lol..
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The s/o to Aaron Swartz for reading drafts made me sad, tho.
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"I remember wondering, how did my friends get to be so eminent? and a second later realizing: shit, I'm forty."
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What’s the thing that people take for granted? That startups can be founded by young hackers with little money up front?
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