if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account. - Paul Graham
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if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.
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Paul Graham
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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That averaging gets to be a problem. I think the single biggest problem afflicting large companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to each person’s work.
If you're wondering how to design your startup's product so that everyone will want it in 10 years, just do whatever would make your friends want it this week. Otherwise your company won't exist in 10 years anyway.
The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things; the least sophisticated users show you what you need to simplify and clarify, and the most sophisticated tell you what features you need to add.
