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Paul Graham sounds like a boomer telling their kids to go apply in person or go door to door for jobs. Especially talking about Software startups, which will in
by bearjaws 3y ago
Paul Graham sounds like a boomer telling their kids to go apply in person or go door to door for jobs. Especially talking about Software startups, which will increasingly have a lower and lower barrier to entry (aka lower profitability)
Theres simply no way to get away with what Google, Facebook or Uber did today. You will not sneak your software into enterprise customers, you will not be able to skirt regulations.
Hell the big money pot of getting acquired may be dead too, e.g. Figma.
For most startups, you will fail. For the top 1% of companies you can hope to at best make a comfortable living at a multi-million dollar valuation. Only the .0001% will become a Google.
- julianozen 3y agoWhile you are right, the trick is to find the new unturned stone. Google, Facebook and Uber developed playbooks for their respective environments. One cannot replay their playbook and expect it to work