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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017

    I told each YC batch that if they came and asked me if they were failing, I'd answer them candidly. Few ever did.

    5:39 AM - 16 Apr 2017
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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Confidence and denial are remarkably similar in their effect on your behavior, but disastrously different in their effect on your results.

        7 replies 117 retweets 302 likes
      3. Amit Chaudhary‏ @amitc 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        How to distinguish denial from persistence/grit?

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Apr 2017
        Replying to @amitc

        By whether you're getting results.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. Amit Chaudhary‏ @amitc 17 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        This is worth having some heuristics. Wait how long for results? aka the time? Even die hard fans do not indicate large enough market fit

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Alex Hammer‏ @AIHammer 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        How many?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @AIHammer

        Maybe 10% of each batch.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Alex Hammer‏ @AIHammer 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Are those 10% who are more open to honest feedback more successful than the others (or no difference or less successful)?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @AIHammer

        The groups that were doing badly and came and asked me about it did a lot better than the ones doing badly who didn't.

        3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
      6. Alex Hammer‏ @AIHammer 18 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        You have time now to really succeed: https://medium.com/the-future-of-everything/ecommerce-disruption-simply-yet-powerfully-demonstrated-43c415b1aca4 …

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      2. Lori Pickert‏ @campcreek 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        were those that asked more likely to be failing or not failing?

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @campcreek

        Not failing.

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
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      2. David Coven‏ @mrcoven94 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        If we're not in a batch, can we still ask you?

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @mrcoven94

        You could ask, but the problem is that I don't know the answer.

        0 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
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      2. Ankur Sharda‏ @shardinator 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        is it usually obvious (with your experience), or do you often see a few that are bad, then get lucky/turn themselves around all of a sudden?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @shardinator

        Sometimes groups turn themselves around. That's why I make this offer.

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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      2. dan barker‏Verified account @danbarker 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Maybe switch to 'succeeding' & see whether it yields greater numbers.

        1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @danbarker

        It's harder to give a definite answer about that in the early stages.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. dan barker‏Verified account @danbarker 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Agreed - but it doesn't really matter - you could give exactly the same feedback as you would if they came with the 'failing' question.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. David Silva Smith‏ @DavidSilvaSmith 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Why do you think that is?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Apr 2017
        Replying to @DavidSilvaSmith

        In some cases, dreading what the answer might be. In others, believing (correctly or incorrectly) that they weren't.

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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