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    1. 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?

      252 replies 589 retweets 1,088 likes
    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

      🙄

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    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
      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.

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        2. 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
        3. Matthew Prince‏Verified account @eastdakota 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          ah, now I understand: you have a sample set bias problem. Agree MBAs who apply to YC are less likely to be on path toward success.

          3 replies 3 retweets 30 likes
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        1. Matthew Prince‏Verified account @eastdakota 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          agree on the side projects point. Cloudflare grew out of a side project as did most of the successful companies friends have started.

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        2. Matthew Prince‏Verified account @eastdakota 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          disagree "harder for MBAs." That does not align with my personal experience or the experience I witnessed watching fellow students.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Terrifying TProphet‏ @TProphet 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @eastdakota @paulg

          There is a greater risk with MBAs of being business model driven. I started Cuddli based on business opportunity, not solving real problems.

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        4. Terrifying TProphet‏ @TProphet 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @TProphet @eastdakota @paulg

          That said, our team kept at it. We kept tinkering. We stayed invested long after we should have written off sunk cost and pulled the plug.

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        5. Terrifying TProphet‏ @TProphet 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @TProphet @eastdakota @paulg

          We are now the world's largest geek dating community (somehow) and we haven't even shipped our iOS app yet.

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        6. Terrifying TProphet‏ @TProphet 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @TProphet @eastdakota @paulg

          One interesting data point is that we started growing after we all moved Cuddli to a side project. Causal? Just correlated? Not sure.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Terrifying TProphet‏ @TProphet 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @TProphet @eastdakota @paulg

          I think MBA or no MBA, building something people love that solves a real problem is the right starting point. Without that, it won't work.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Terrifying TProphet‏ @TProphet 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @TProphet @eastdakota @paulg

          I focused too much on building a business model I thought investors would love. More: https://medium.com/startup-study-group/no-business-is-bulletproof-get-over-it-465212077272 …

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        1. Hasan M‏ @Hasmanean 16 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg @eastdakota

          Tinkering works because you can iterate fast and stumble upon some "simplex" solution that no "proper" business plan would ever aim for.

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        1. Matthew Prince‏Verified account @eastdakota 14 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          school, including business school, provides a great Petri dish to allow side projects to germinate into something larger.

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