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Read this: 9 candid startup comments by Y Combinator’s Paul Graham

We write a lot about Paul Graham, the man behind the uber successful Y Combinator. Graham’s incubator, which has spawned rock star startups such as AirBnb, Reddit and Dropbox, has funded over 500 companies which have gone on to raise more than US$1.7 billion in funding. Y Combinator is considered, by some, the top startup incubator in the world.
Naturally, Graham’s latest interview for Inc. magazine piqued our interest. It’s long, but worth a bookmark. Still, we dug into the interview and created a TL;DR version that outlines some of Graham’s views on startups.
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