Nice website, but why does the "Invite Friends" mailto link includes a bcc to your email?

Nice.

Speaking of curated lists, I pass these essays from pg (in no order) to anyone who comes to me asking why am I or am I not into startups:

http://paulgraham.com/before.html

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

http://paulgraham.com/really.html

http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

http://paulgraham.com/relres.html

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html

http://paulgraham.com/die.html

http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

http://paulgraham.com/whyyc.html

http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html

http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

http://paulgraham.com/gh.html

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

http://paulgraham.com/taste.html

A word of caution [0]: Over the years, I've twice come very close to quitting my job in the wake of reading those essays, and finally quit it this past month. Tread carefully [1].

In addition to this, I'd highly recommend paying close attention to how WhatsApp took on email, numerous copy-cats, the social media, the telecom industry and still won.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982306

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278

Yeah. I quit my job after reading those essays. I did 'succeed', however, in that I made about 3 years salary in one year after exiting. And while I joined several accelerators, the main factor for the victory were the essays.

I joined a few startups after that, none of whom read Paul Graham's essays, and their failure was also for not reading it. It's an extremely frustrating thing because they can do their homework and read a free 1000 word article online but instead choose to pay expensive consultants who lead them down the wrong path.

This is awesome! Thanks! My only advice would be a sleeker logo :D

This looks great, please add an RSS feed ;)

Very nice, thanks :-)

Not on Apple podcast?