Drop your favourite Paul Graham article 📖

Vio Vanica
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Mine is this one - Do things that don't scale - http://paulgraham.com/ds.html What about you?

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Johannes Grenzemann
Build sth. 100 people love, not something 1mio people kind of like. (Which is also my favorite of his quotes:)
Johannes Grenzemann
@viorica_vanica Hey viorica, now I see what went wrong here - you were asking for article, I posted a quote 🙀 But I found the article, where I have the quote from: https://www.businessinsider.com/...
Vio Vanica
@jgrenzemann thank you Johannes for sharing, not sure which one is the last one, can you send the link to it?
David J. Kim
I'd say the article "What we look for in Founders" has a lot of useful insight on what traits the best founders have.
Vio Vanica
@between_team Love it David, do you have a co-founder?
David J. Kim
@viorica_vanica I have two co-founders actually! One is a CTO, the other started as CMO but is moreso of a product designer/operator now (incoming title change!) I've worked with dozens of people, back when I was naive and thought about building a company vs just building a product. A lot of them were smart, but my co-founders had energy + integrity as well.
Vio Vanica
@between_team Why do you say naive? Would love to learn and hear your story David and what you have learned.
David J. Kim
@viorica_vanica It's naive because we were moreso focused on "getting an engineer" or "getting a head of marketing/head of PR". When really, in the beginning everyone's going to be wearing lots of hats and the primary focus should be on building product & talking to users.
Mojiboye Emmanuel Oluwole
@between_team head of pr, yc talks a lot about avoiding those guys, I first learned about how bad they were from a book I read. thank goodness you realized this earlier on