Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham

Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by spencerwgreene on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:58PM (#22559702)

Q: "What is the most promising startup idea you’ve heard that didn’t succeed?"

PG: "Maybe Pebble. It could have been the next Apple. But hardware startups are a bitch. External factors can kill you in a way that doesn’t happen with software, and you can’t do things as gradually as you can with software."

This answer stood out to me the most since many of the other questions are answered somewhat in his essays already.

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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by thimkerbell on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:27PM (#22564467)

For fellow ignorami,Pebble was a wristwatch; see https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/what-working-on-pebble-tau...

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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by asadlionpk on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:03PM (#22559762)

I loved my Pebble. I wore the classic one till it broke. I wish they had stayed around.

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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by iamwil on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:57PM (#22563731)

Whenever I ask different ex-Pebblers about what killed the company, their perspective is always relative to their area of concern.

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