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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. I knew there was a Friday night poker game in Silicon Valley where all the software pioneers were getting to know each other and helping shape the industry. Deals were getting done there.

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Do Things that Don't Scale

paulgraham.com

But in fact theyre famous within YC for aggressive early user acquisition. Microsoft cant have seemed very impressive when it was just a couple guys in Albuquerque writing Basic interpreters for a market of a few thousand hobbyists (as they were then called), but in retrospect that was the optimal path to dominating microcomputer software.

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