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A Conversation with Paul Graham

Startup School by Y Combinator

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Start Up Ideas Are Like Lightbulbs, You Know?

We could just like that was like a hole on to windows, and people could get through the hole and click on links in the browser and control the software. And so we immediately, we weren't even sure this would work, because it was so weird,. But we immediately sat down and tried to write this really, really clunky, um, web site builder that worked clicking on links. It was terrible, but it did actually work. It could make a web site. And like, holy shet, this actually works. Yhat's weird that an innorvative idea like that just sort of comes out of no it seam doesn't seem innovative now, because all web sites

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