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Re:Ask HN: Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? by known on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @02:03PM (#300591)
And he did it to prove his point when D.E.Shaw & Co refused to fund the bookstore idea.
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Re:Ask HN: Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? by cperciva on Thursday September 11, 2008 @12:46AM (#301120)
Nothing wrong with wanting to prove a point. If pg hadn't said that single-founder companies rarely work, I probably wouldn't have decided to work on tarsnap.
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