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Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator

The Social Radars

CHAPTER

The Struggles of Starting a Startup

Y Combinator co-founder Sam Altman talks about his time at Yahoo. He says the company's founders suppressed their own instincts to make it a business. After three years of working on this startup and then one more year at Yahoo, he said: "I started this startup so I could get rich because there was something I wanted to do"Altman met Jeff Ralston who is now president and CEO of Y Combinator.

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