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![paulg Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::183749519.png) Paul Graham [@paulg](/creator/twitter/paulg) on x 2M followers
Created: 2024-08-10 22:44:26 UTC

I was talking to the founder of a very successful startup, and he said the best time was in the first few years, when they were just a handful of smart people trying to solve hard problems, and no one expected anything of them.


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