As perhaps the canonical Hacker News example, pg had his PhD and rtm was working on his when they founded Viaweb [1]. [1] Scroll down to "PEOPLE": http://paulg

As perhaps the canonical Hacker News example, pg had his PhD and rtm was working on his when they founded Viaweb [1]. [1] Scroll down to "PEOPLE": http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html