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On the bright side, we got a pretty cool WWW forum from Paul Graham scamming some Yahoo bigwigs.
by kick 7y ago
On the bright side, we got a pretty cool WWW forum from Paul Graham scamming some Yahoo bigwigs.
- tomc1985 7y agoHonestly HN could be run by anyone; its draw isn't that Paul Graham is in charge
- kick 7y agoMy response was sarcastic. However: HN was seeded with users who sprouted from YC. If you check the first few years, it was pretty heavily tied to here. Unlikely it would have worked without being tied to Graham's essays.