Paul Graham (@paulg)
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A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.
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@JoshBobrowsky If someone comes along and offers you money it's not necessarily a mistake to take it. The mistake it to be drawn into acting as if you were trying to convince them. Ditto with acquisition offers.
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If I could send my 18 year old self a message, it would have three parts:
1. Prestige is often mistaken. Follow curiosity instead.
2. There's no way to avoid hard work. It's not sufficient, but it is necessary.
3. Don't take your parents for granted.
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The harder the task, the less you care about people's race or sex or whatever, either in the racist sense or the diversity sense. You're so desperate simply to find anyone who can do it well that you don't think about anything else.
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A very common story from a startup's investor update:
"Our partnership with <big company> did not go as expected... It was pretty evident that they were trying to take advantage of us... We’re going to walk away from that situation for now. A lot of hard lessons learned."
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