The key is to combine new technologies with effective distribution to potential customers, a scalable and high-margin revenue model, and an approach … - Reid Hoffman

What got you here won’t get you there.

But ignoring those details won’t work — not in the long run, says Y Combinator’s president from 2014 to 2019, Sam Altman. An acolyte of Paul Graham’s, Sam adhered to the core Y Combinator dictum: It’s better to have one hundred users who love you than a million users who just kind of like you. It’s counterintuitive. You may be thinking If a million people “kind of like” my product enough to buy it, isn’t that better for business than a hundred obsessive oddballs? To which Sam would say…definitely not.

for many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.