The three ingredients in clickbait revenue: a damning headline, a paywall, and a large number of people whose existing beliefs would be confirmed if … - Paul Graham

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The three ingredients in clickbait revenue: a damning headline, a paywall, and a large number of people whose existing beliefs would be confirmed if the headline were accurate.

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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