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Re:Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build ... by noblethrasher on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @07:39PM (#12301469)
During an interview[1] (with one of the AirBnB founders no less), pg offered the general advice that startups should search for success using a hill climbing algorithm, and not worry about dangerous local maximums; only to be immediately confronted with the counter example of AirBnB (the cereal episode).

That company just seems to be an outlier in multiple categories.

[1] http://youtu.be/nrWavoJsEks at about 7:00

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Re:Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build ... by jacquesm on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:30AM (#12303383)
Which is amusing if you realize that VC depends on outliers in order to make it to the next cycle.

In other words: the only worthwhile companies for VCs are the ones that do not follow the set patterns and to which the rules do not apply.

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