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Yes, exactly. You don't get the output of a big Apple or Google without them existing initially as startups. Mark Markkula funded Apple. Andy Bechtolsheim fun
by staunch 10y ago
Yes, exactly. You don't get the output of a big Apple or Google without them existing initially as startups.
Mark Markkula funded Apple.
Andy Bechtolsheim funded Google.
These didn't happen by accident. They weren't inevitable.
- ghaff 10y agoYes. And pretty much every product and service I use on a day to day basis was created by a company that was once small and may have received outside investment even if only friends and family. And just about every product and service has some technology component or innovation that differentiates itself. But now you're just arguing that companies build the products we use and companies start small which, while overwhelmingly true, is hardly a statement about the output of technology startups specifically.
- sillysaurus3 10y agopg answered your questions conclusively in http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
- s73ver 10y agoThe vast majority of the products we'd associate with those companies were made long after they could be considered startups.
- ghaff 10y agoWhich was the main point I was trying to make. Furthermore, if you use the strict designed-for-rapid-growth definition for startups, a number of those companies were probably never startups. I don't think Apple, for example, fits today's classic startup mold. (I'm not saying I completely buy this definition but some people insist on using it.)