Paul Graham: Nearly all startup ideas are easily duplicated at first, and that's fine
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-06
Paul Graham shares advice to a demoralized founder worried that every idea he could think of was easily duplicated: ignore that worry. Nearly all startup ideas look that way at first — their value lies in the other ideas they lead to.
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