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A Conversation with Paul Graham

Startup School by Y Combinator

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What Makes Companies Good?

What companies fail most of the time is poor execution by the founders, right? Hum. We often talk to start ups who were worried about competitors. And like, how many companies have been killed by competitors? More than one ike out of 19 hundred, right? So, a, i tell startups that basically you have the same protection against competitors tha that light aircraft have against crashing into other light aircraft. Those little senas don't have any radar in them. You can't see in clouds. It's is, it'sit.

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