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The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit

Startup School by Y Combinator

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The Genesis of the Boucuet Rule

When you're starting out building something new, especially if you're kind of going into an established category, like emal was like 30 years old when we started on it. There is a lot of history and a lot of opinions about how emal should be. So it's pretty much impossible to enter a space like that and make a thing that appeals to everyone. If you try to do that, what you end u making is just like, a mediocre product that nobody really loves. And so my philosophy and what we try to get all the stars to do is figure out a thing that will just have really deep appeal, even if it's too, like, a tiny fraction of people

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