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sfpirate
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About sfpirate
I'm an SF tech founder. Been following pg since 2006 and his essays transformed my work life. Studied CS in Waterloo undergrad and Business / Entrepreneurship in CMU grad school. Worked at Microsoft (Redmond) and Google (Mountain View) as an engineer. Worked at startups of every stage, and fell in love with building businesses. Coffee junkie. Grew up from nothing (really, not relatively). I feel beyond fortunate to be where I am today, and wouldn't believe my journey 10 years ago. Want to give something back to humanity before I die. Luckily I really enjoy the company of geeks (I am one), so doing something big seems very possible.
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Compare Evernote with Google Keep. The latter, which came out later, converted me to use the former. You have nothing to worry about. A big company sucks at copying ideas. An innov…
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It's along the lines of how to come up with good ideas, but I'm not sure that it's actionable. Almost every problem I think about could be reasonably solved by the next guy. There'…
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Comment #6423884
That's the first thing that popped into my head. I've spent 5 years in that building. Never realized the man continued to be so successful. It's interesting how people who really c…
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Comment #6419641
Outside the Bay Area, few people know about YC. An article in 2006 by pg made me plan for 3 years to finally move to SF in 2009 (I had googled "how to start a company"). There are …