In a big company, you can do what all the other big compani… - Paul Graham

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In a big company, you can do what all the other big companies are doing. But a startup can’t do what all the other startups do.

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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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