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Generally really like your post, but I have to correct you about PG's essay. It's people who work at normal jobs that he calls caged animals, and founders are
by emmett 14y ago
Generally really like your post, but I have to correct you about PG's essay.
It's people who work at normal jobs that he calls caged animals, and founders are the wild animals.
"In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a tame animal who thinks he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write."
http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
- nostrademons 14y agoI was thinking of a different essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html "One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive."