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March 2021
I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences.
That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read,
the more deeply readers will engage with it. The less energy they expend on
your prose, the more they'll have left for your ideas.
And the further they'll read... |
**Want to start a startup?** Get funded by [Y
Combinator](http://ycombinator.com/apply.html).
December 2010
Someone we funded is talking to VCs now, and asked me how common it was for a
startup's founders to retain control of the board after a series A round. He
said VCs told him this almost never happened... |
December 2008
A few months ago I read a _New York Times_ article on South Korean cram
schools that said
> Admission to the right university can make or break an ambitious young South
> Korean.
A parent added:
> "In our country, college entrance exams determine 70 to 80 percent of a
> person's future."
It was s... |
October 2005
The first Summer Founders Program has just finished. We were surprised how
well it went. Overall only about 10% of startups succeed, but if I had to
guess now, I'd predict three or four of the eight startups we funded will make
it.
Of the startups that needed further funding, I believe all have e... |
May 2002
"The quantity of meaning compressed into a small space by algebraic signs, is
another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to
carry on by their aid."
\- Charles Babbage, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
In the discussion about issues raised by [Revenge of the... |
**Want to start a startup?** Get funded by [Y
Combinator](http://ycombinator.com/apply.html).
August 2007
_(This is a talk I gave at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer.
Usually we don't have a speaker at the last dinner; it's more of a party. But
it seemed worth spoiling the atmosphere if I could ... |
January 2016
One advantage of being old is that you can see change happen in your lifetime.
A lot of the change I've seen is fragmentation. US politics is much more
polarized than it used to be. Culturally we have ever less common ground. The
creative class flocks to a handful of happy cities, abandoning the rest.... |
September 2004
_(This essay is derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004.)_
I had a front row seat for the Internet Bubble, because I worked at Yahoo
during 1998 and 1999. One day, when the stock was trading around $200, I sat
down and calculated what I thought the price should be. The answer I got was
$12. ... |
**Want to start a startup?** Get funded by [Y
Combinator](http://ycombinator.com/apply.html).
March 2009
A couple days ago I finally got being a good startup founder down to two
words: relentlessly resourceful.
Till then the best I'd managed was to get the opposite quality down to one:
hapless. Most d... |
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