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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 2 Aug 2017

      One of YC's innovations is to use the founders themselves to do technical due diligence on their own idea.

      8 replies 38 retweets 198 likes
    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 2 Aug 2017
      Replying to @paulg

      VCs traditionally sent (probably still send) ideas to outside "experts" to be vetted.

      6 replies 10 retweets 38 likes
    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 2 Aug 2017
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      But if you can tell both (a) if founders are domain experts and (b) if they're telling the truth, you can use them to vet the idea.

      7 replies 14 retweets 57 likes
      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 2 Aug 2017

      And while I would not have guessed it, with sufficient practice you can do this in a 10 minute conversation.

      11:54 AM - 2 Aug 2017
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        2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 2 Aug 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          This is not only more efficient, but is the only strategy that works as ideas spread beyond pure tech. Who could you ask to vet Airbnb?

          9 replies 9 retweets 37 likes
        3. Dominik Balogh‏ @DominikBalogh 2 Aug 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          If Airbnb founders were domain experts in the accommodation business, they would most likely never have started Airbnb in the first place.

          1 reply 2 retweets 20 likes
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        2. matt knox‏ @mattknox 2 Aug 2017
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          How do you do it? And do you think a person can do it to oneself, like debugging by explaining the problem to a random inanimate object?

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 2 Aug 2017
          Replying to @mattknox

          The best I can do in 140 chars is: you ask how and why they started working on this particular idea.

          2 replies 3 retweets 9 likes
        4. matt knox‏ @mattknox 2 Aug 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          Would be great to have >140. :) Do you think one can do it to oneself/cofounders? Or does it need pattern-matching data/other?

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        2. Mat Sherman‏ @Mat_Sherman 2 Aug 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          What takes more time in the 10 minutes; Identifying if they are a domain expert or identifying if they are telling the truth?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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