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Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding

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Re: Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding

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Post by moeffju »

pg wrote: post #18
onan_barbarian wrote: post #8

This article makes me wonder: status-of-arc-p?

I hack a fair amount in it, less on it. I'd hoped to release a new version of News soon, and thus also a new version of Arc. But I am pretty busy with YC.

Feature request: Some sort of API. The iHackernews API is okay when it works, which over the last few weeks has been about 30% of the time.

Re: Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding

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Post by argonz »

warwick wrote: post #2

I really don't like the bias in the headline. It seems to imply that coding isn't something you'd do after you got growth. Why not "How Coding Helps Y Combinator Manage Growth" or "Paul Graham Keeps Coding to Help Y Combinator Keep Growing"?

When your business outgrow "garage" level it's simply starts to generate MORE and INTERESTING questions than what you could work out yourself, so you just make the decision(give to others) and enjoy the feedback from the results..

It's not that you don't like to code, you just enjoy to be connected and entertained by more stuff.

Of course a great counter example is John Carmack - in there I think he is far more interested in the exact technical details than your average entrepreneur - btw he was never an entrepreneur, he is a "pure" engineer with obsession to optimize(and many other sides of course).

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