Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium
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Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium
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#2Congrats! Octopart is a wonderful tool, and I look forward to see it continue to grow.
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#3IIRC Octopart was a part of one of the 2007 batches. Congrats on staying with it!
Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
> When we first met the founders of Octopart, they seemed very smart, but not a great bet to succeed, because they didn't seem especially committed. One of the two founders was still in grad school. It was the usual story: he'd drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off. Since then he has not only dropped out of grad school, but appeared full length in Newsweek with the word "Billionaire" printed across his chest. He just cannot fail now. Everyone he knows has seen that picture. Girls who dissed him in high school have seen it. His mom probably has it on the fridge. It would be unthinkably humiliating to fail now. At this point he is committed to fight to the death.
Edit: Funnily enough, one of the Octopart founders quit grad school on the first day HN existed. Time flies:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
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#4Exciting for octopart and altium users :)
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#6Well done. I love Octopart. It's on my browser tool bar next to the Google icon and it is my starting point on every production run's buying cycle.
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#7Octopart's founders in Newsweek in 2007, under the title "Meet the Next Billionaires":
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#8Congrats octopart. You guys found a niche, offered an excellent service and stuck by your mission (despite naysayers).
Also, good seeing people make money off the new electronics revolution.
Re: Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium
#9Congrats octopart. You guys found a niche, offered and excellent service and stuck by your mission (despite naysayers).
Also, good seeing people make money off the new electronics revolution.
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#10Yesterday I had PG's Startup School 08 video[1] on the background and he spoke about them just after being a cockroach and how companies succeed not just by not being evil but by being good.
Really happy for them. Great team.