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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Dec 2020

    What You Can Learn from How to Ace a YC Interview: http://paulgraham.com/ace.html 

    6:27 AM - 4 Dec 2020
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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Dec 2020

        I changed the title. Those long, complicated titles are never good. I should have learned my lesson from "The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company".

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      2. Michael Bucko‏ @alphacantor 4 Dec 2020
        Replying to @paulg

        I am usually the latest to read *how to ace interviews* texts, but this is the one I am definitely gonna read.

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      1. Aniekpeno Undomiel‏ @Ani_Undomiel 4 Dec 2020
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        "...that there's nothing else they'd rather do." I can't imagine walking away from Storehouse knowing I have the opportunity to stop employee theft found in small African businesses which is the leading cause of failure. I'd often wonder how best they would solve that problem.

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      2.  🍟 Manuel Bichler‏ @ManuelBichler 4 Dec 2020
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        Thanks!

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      3. Tarun Varma‏ @tvarma 4 Dec 2020
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        Thought this was cool @KeyaLamba

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      1. Michael Teo‏ @michaelgteo 4 Dec 2020
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        Interesting point that YC brand is a magnet for "bad founders". I have this theory that a successful companies like google are also a magnet for people wanting to get the brand as a shortcut. Eventually some will get in, inevitably take over and start the downward spiral.

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      2. Stopa‏ @stopachka 4 Dec 2020
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        "A startup must sing for its supper" This reminds me of the story of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: --- A verse goes "What if the bird will not sing?" Nobunaga (1st warlord) said: "Kill it" Toyotomi (2nd warlord) said: "Make it _want_ to sing" Ieyasu (3rd warlord) said: "Wait."

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      3. Stopa‏ @stopachka 4 Dec 2020
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        If you haven't read it, I think you may like Eiji Yoshikawa's "Taiko". Fiction, but gives a great sense of the age.

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      2. Michael G Smart‏ @MichaelGSmart4 4 Dec 2020
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        Christian physicist and science raise up Christ ever time. I would not believe if there was not science that with hope is basic fact. That why ya go to church is basic to believe as fact. Course faith is still meek and modest.

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      3. JeromeSH‏ @JeromeSH4 4 Dec 2020
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