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Maybe so, but that's very different than "Beat the system and make tons of money". See some of pg's early essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html http:/
by tlrobinson 9y ago
Maybe so, but that's very different than "Beat the system and make tons of money".
See some of pg's early essays:
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
http://paulgraham.com/good.html http://paulgraham.com/good.html
Entrepreneurship is one of the least zero-sum activities you can participate in.
- gowld 9y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html It's literally on the YC application form. "He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications." The part about "make tons of money" isn't there, but I don't think anyone disagrees with that part -- YC recently launched a separate branch to handle nonprofit ventures.