Paul Graham: Startups' biggest ideas usually come after founding, not before
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-05
Paul Graham pushes back on a popular startup misconception: founders rarely start with a brilliant idea and then execute it. Drawing on a conversation with a YC founder 15 years in and still doing big new things, he argues that the biggest idea usually emerges later in the journey.
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