IIRC Octopart was a part of one of the 2007 batches. Congrats on staying with it! Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html http://www.paulgraham.com/die.ht

IIRC Octopart was a part of one of the 2007 batches. Congrats on staying with it! Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html > When we first met the founders of Octopart, they seemed very smart, but not a great bet to succeed, because they didn't seem especially committed. One of the two founders was still in grad school. It was the usual story: he'd drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off. Since then he has not only dropped out of grad school, but appeared full length in Newsweek with the word "Billionaire" printed across his chest. He just cannot fail now. Everyone he knows has seen that picture. Girls who dissed him in high school have seen it. His mom probably has it on the fridge. It would be unthinkably humiliating to fail now. At this point he is committed to fight to the death. Edit: Funnily enough, one of the Octopart founders quit grad school on the first day HN existed. Time flies: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...