Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets. - Paul Graham
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Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets.
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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looking at things from other people’s point of view is practically the secret of success.
The difference between a random fact and (for lack of a better word) a non-random one is how many other facts it's connected to. The latter kind are better.
I've been doing office hours with startups for 20 years now. I must have talked to over a thousand of them. How have I not become bored by it? I think the reason is curiosity. Each startup's idea is different, and it's a puzzle to figure out how to make it work.
