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#36 - Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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The Power of Rationalization

I think your or everyone's ability to rationalize is unbelievably powerful. And if you're good at it, like just being good at the game is often enough to drive people. I went to startup school 2009 and Jason Fried was there from 37 signals. He stood out like a sore thumb. It didn't really change my approach at that time. But then I got into YC and we had the weekly, you know, Tuesday dinners were founders would come in. The same thing happened. We had a lot of VCs come in. Then Kevin Hale came in from Wufu. And he was like, yeah, I packed up my company. We moved to Florida. Investors call

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