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Re:Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC... by Clubber on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @10:16PM (#42252561)
Macintosh was, by all financial accounts, a failure; at least the first iteration. That's what got him fired.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-how-the...

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Re:Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC... by fsckboy on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @12:16AM (#42253151)
if they were firing him for failures, he would already have been fired for Apple 3 and then Lisa

the Apple /// shocked people when announced, instead of being a 6809 or 68000, it was... two 6502's? what? who does that

but you're making the same point, he was casting about for success, not predicting the future.

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