It's not just because they're grumpy or nostalgic that old people complain when things decline. They're also the only first-hand witnesses — the only… - Paul Graham
" "It's not just because they're grumpy or nostalgic that old people complain when things decline. They're also the only first-hand witnesses — the only ones who saw how things were.
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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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If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.
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