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Social networks are one of the rare counterexamples to the principle that you can discover the optimal product by following growth. In this domain there are local maxima. You're reading this on one.

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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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