Youssef Rizk: evaluation

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…yes. Still a little bit noisier, so I don't know if you know, I have, I was a moderator of the React Reddit for four years. So I've seen a bunch of stuff and I know it's noisier than like a Hacker News, but still pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we do hack news, we do PG essays. I think pgs are also super interesting. I listen to 'em all the time 'cause I, well first of all, I actually think they're pretty well produced. Like we do a good job. One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist. Actually, startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going.…

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