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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Feb 2015

    If a startup is great but expected to be killed by some big company's pending launch, it usually does well. Dropbox was one too.

    8:43 PM - 24 Feb 2015
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      2. Jim Gray‏ @grayj_ 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @pavtalk If a billion-dollar market cap & 50,000 employees was enough to make a product work, Google Wave would still be a thing.

        1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @grayj_

        @grayj_ @pavtalk FWIW I think Wave was a great idea killed by a bad launch.

        2 replies 5 retweets 7 likes
      4. Ivan Pashchenko‏ @ivanpashenko 25 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @grayj_ @pavtalk wow that's interesting. So can you actually kill a startup by launching badly? Isn't it contradicts with learn fast?

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 Feb 2015
        Replying to @ivanpashenko

        @ivanpashenko @grayj_ @pavtalk It's not launching early that's dangerous.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      6. Ranee Soundara‏ @naynerz 25 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @grayj_ @ivanpashenko @pavtalk absolutely agree re: wave, their poor launch killed it. marketing explainer vid was 1.5 hours long!!

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      2. Diego Basch‏ @dbasch 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg as you know, big companies don't kill startups as often as people believe. I can think of very few cases in which I'd credit BigCo.

        2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @dbasch

        @dbasch The interesting thing is, I think this may hold even if you "ask for it" by attacking them directly.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Eason C‏ @easoncxz 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg This is so false in the context of China…

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 Feb 2015
        Replying to @easoncxz

        @easoncxz Yeah, China may be different.

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      2. Mitchell Holder‏ @mitchellholder 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg What was the "big companies pending launch" in Dropbox's case?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @mitchellholder

        @mitchellholder Google Drive.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Mitchell Holder‏ @mitchellholder 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg That's what I was thinking. Thanks!

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      2. Varun Singh‏ @VarunJuice 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg no amount of $$$ can help a big co learn 5 years of lessons. Infact, $$$ get in the way of rapid learning.

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @VarunJuice

        @VarunJuice Weell, to be fair I'm sure Apple has been learning, just without releasing.

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      4. Varun Singh‏ @VarunJuice 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg true. Wonder how quickly it will learn the developer ecosystem lessons. A lot to be discovered there.

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      1. Aviato Inc‏ @AviatoInc 24 Feb 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        Hey @paulg you like box?

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      1. Robert Farazin‏ @rf45 25 Feb 2015
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        “@paulg: If a startup is great but expected to be killed by some big company's pending launch, it usually does well. Dropbox was one too.”

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      1. giftgaming®‏ @giftgaming 14 Mar 2015
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        @paulg People said we're a great idea, but Google *could* kill us with "Game gifts": https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/giftRequests … -- So scale-as-a-defence?

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      1. Ben Gilbert‏ @gilbert 25 Feb 2015
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        @paulg Yep, plenty of data points to support, but what about the ones that WERE killed? Those are less memorable and could outweigh.

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      1. Ced‏ @ejames_c 24 Feb 2015
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        @paulg Why? (Please write essay if generalisable.)

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