Paul Graham

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How to Lose Time and Money

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#startups#programming#thinking#philosophy
"July 2010 When we sold our startup in 1998 I suddenly got a lot of money. I now had to think about something I hadn't had to think about before: how not to lose it. I knew it was possible to go from rich to poor, just as it was possible to go from poor to rich."

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