I'm two weeks into readings from @phil's Silicon Valley Canon book course. It's great. Here are some select takeaways.

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The story of great v0s being built in a couple days is laughably common.

- Gmail - "1 day"
- Viaweb – "a couple days"
- Ebay - "one long weekend"

And they were simple too: Paul Graham's viaweb, an e-commerce platform, launched without the ability to process payments. You couldn't process a credit card transaction until 2 years after launch.

eBay launched without the ability facilitate payments, it couldn’t even guarantee the buyers paid the sellers, just list and bid. Reviews were in a forum, separate from the bidding experience.

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