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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No investor has any right to push you to get acquired if you don't want to. The company is your project, not theirs.
Before Twitter, people used to send angry messages called "hate mail" to (usually) famous people they were mad at. Now when they get mad at someone, they send messages to all their friends.
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You can’t trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they’re satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because it dictates the way they think about programs.
