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as someone who used to be a founder but is now a VC, the one thing I would go back and tell my former self is: STOP IGNORING PAUL GRAHAM His essays are not just an ideal that you should strive towards. If you do what he says you will probably win; if you don’t do what he says you’ll almost certainly lose.
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Follow up is that the best thing you can do (for yourself, your team, your users, your investors, etc etc) is to face the cold realities asap if you read his essays and there are nontrivial differences in your strategy
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As a founder it’s important to get really good at being comfortable being different (from your competitors, your peers, etc) and to believe you’re an outlier But don’t try to be an outlier among startup founders— even though PG’s principles seem vague they are real patterns learned with large data
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