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From one piece Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's not that they lack ambition, it's more like they've been trained not to show it. Because when you're young you're often in situations where you're supposed to be obedient. You're not supposed to like go off and do what you want.
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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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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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But when they looked at the happiness levels of these people, it was the average person who actually would self-report the highest levels of happiness. So ambition doesn't necessarily equate with happiness, which I think many people would agree with with that.
29 July
From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I truly believe these these models are already just incredibly powerful. Like they should they should be so powerful to fuel, you know, um many many points of expansion of GDP growth and I think it's like up to smart people with vision and ambition to make all that happen.
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This is a once-in-a-civilization opportunity to have a vision and impose it on the world by building something.Their words
it's probably a like once in a civilization opportunity to be a dreamer and to have a vision and to have ambition and to impose a view of how the future world should look by building something amazing.
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The scarce resource is about to stop being intelligence or agency and become vision and ambition.Their words
all of a sudden, the scarce resource isn't going to be intelligence or agency. I really think it's going to be vision and ambition.
14 June
From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
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it's to build an internet treasure which is a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without. And I believe as product makers that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the world.
10 May
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Execution is only as good as the goal and the verification you give it. Ambition without verification is just a wish.
16 December 2025
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The Secret of Our SuccessTheir words
Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
31 October 2025
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So you have to be, in your mind, you’re spending large amounts of someone else’s money. You have to try and make it back for them. But at the same time, my argument with myself was, well, if we… The way to make it back is try and make something great. So both pressures are pointing in the same direction.
13 August 2025
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In the US, capital controls politics, one could argue. In China, it has to be the other way around. Capital must be reigned in by politics. As part of the capitalist class, do not have the ambition to exceed the powers of the political class, is really at the core of it, I’d say, is the biggest difference between US and China.
7 August 2025
21 March 2025
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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed WorldTheir words
A more how-to pragmatic version of carving your own path. Includes some personal story of reinvention but more on experimentation that challenges our default scripts of success and ambition.
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Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner AmbitionTheir words
A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.
10 January 2025
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Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com BoomTheir words
See an excerpt explaining why I loved reading this book.
2 June 2024
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