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#61 - Sam Altman on Masters of Scale

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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Do Things That Don't Scale

Paul Graham wrote an essay called Do Things That Don't Scale. It is in the top four most important essays for a new founder to read. This is almost universal among, not perfectly, but almost universal among our best companies. You have to go get users manually or do things that you could never do with 10 million users.

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