Stay as small as you can for as long as you can. People who come to visit your office should always be surprised that such an important company has s… - Paul Graham
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Stay as small as you can for as long as you can. People who come to visit your office should always be surprised that such an important company has so few employees.
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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