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His own thoughts about are here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html
Whether you believe that or not is up to you, but back then there was no guarantee it would work. To look with hindsight and say it was just greed is easy for you to hurl, but not at all what it looked like at the beginning.
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His own thoughts about are here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html
Whether you believe that or not is up to you, but back then there was no guarantee it would work. To look with hindsight and say it was just greed is easy for you to hurl, but not at all what it looked like at the beginning.