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you make more money by being good. In startups you generally do
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From one piece Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare.Their words
Those stories are rare because most of this quality is inborn.
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You know what actually motivates founders day-to-day? The fear of failure. Even though they're doing this thing that if they succeed they'll be super rich. Um that does motivate them but the thing that motivates them at the at any given moment is the fear of like disaster or looking like a fool, the server crashing, right?
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we knew that it was grueling. And you need you need something to drive you through all those obstacles and honestly being dutiful is not enough.
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Most of starting a startup is the same. Most of starting a startup is always the same, right? In you know, microprocessors or AI or like internal combustion engine, it's always the same stuff.
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