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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017

    The next Microsoft was a search engine. The next Google was a social network. What will the next Facebook be?

    2:38 AM - 13 Apr 2017
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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Asking "what is the next Facebook?" is not the way to find it. You find it by making something you want, probably as a side project.

        21 replies 235 retweets 530 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        One reason there are so few really big startups founded by MBAs is that MBAs don't do side projects.

        60 replies 335 retweets 811 likes
      4. Matthew Prince‏Verified account @eastdakota 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        🙄

        1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Apr 2017
        Replying to @eastdakota

        You're one reason I wrote "so few" instead of "no."

        3 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      6. Matthew Prince‏Verified account @eastdakota 14 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        there's no one path. Broad minds are rich minds. Your comment was surprisingly narrow minded for someone with as broad a mind as you.

        1 reply 3 retweets 42 likes
      7. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Apr 2017
        Replying to @eastdakota

        It wasn't just "MBAs suck." It's an important and subtle point that the best startups grow organically out of the founders' lives.

        1 reply 3 retweets 22 likes
      8. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg @eastdakota

        The really big cos weren't meant to be cos at first. They were just tinkering. That's harder for MBAs.

        5 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
      9. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg @eastdakota

        I've seen the pattern over and over in YC interviews.

        2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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      2. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        None of these things have replaced each other. The hulking corpse of IBM is still out there!

        5 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @codinghorror

        Yes, that was the point. The next x is never an x.

        3 replies 7 retweets 39 likes
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      2. Gernot‏ @Gernot 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        The goal of Facebook is to be the next Facebook, so they buy (Instagram, WhatsApp) or copy (Snap) what comes close. It will eventually fail.

        2 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @Gernot

        As those examples are meant to suggest, it won't be in the same business as Facebook.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. Gernot‏ @Gernot 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Initially, yes, and then it might change. Initially Google wasn’t im Microsofts business, and Facebook wasn’t in Googles Business, either.

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      2. Henk Langeveld‏ @hlangeveld 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg @andreisavu

        Remind me, Microsoft was the next ... ?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @hlangeveld @andreisavu

        IBM

        0 replies 0 retweets 25 likes
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      2. Nick Walker‏ @nw3 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Where does Amazon fit in?

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @nw3

        Very good question. Have been thinking about that myself. They could break this pattern.

        4 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      4. Andrei Savu‏ @andreisavu 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg @nw3

        Amazon is a very unusual company. Do you think Tesla & SpaceX follow a similar path?

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      2. Billy Chasen‏Verified account @billychasen 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Feels like it's @uber or at least will be in similar space

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Keyul‏ @keyul 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @billychasen @paulg @Uber

        It's @Airbnb . Playing very safe. Growing silently. No big controversy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Marcos Polanco‏ @MarcosPolanco 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @keyul @billychasen and

        Very much agree that they are the silent bull.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. kevin‏ @kleffew94 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @MarcosPolanco @keyul and

        Uber and AirBnb are unnecessary intermediaries of trust. Will be taken out by dApps

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. Marcos Polanco‏ @MarcosPolanco 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @kleffew94 @keyul and

        You mean blockchain? Yes, in the long-term.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. Kurt Meadows‏ @KurtMeadows 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @MarcosPolanco @kleffew94 and

        What's a "blockchain" exactly?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. kevin‏ @kleffew94 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @KurtMeadows @MarcosPolanco and

        Google it – many see it as the next wave of the internet

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      9. Kurt Meadows‏ @KurtMeadows 13 Apr 2017
        Replying to @kleffew94 @MarcosPolanco and

        Blockchain isn't anything unless you have enough decentralization to make it count. Does he or you know what you're even saying?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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