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Does Paul Graham steal business models from teams not accepted into Y Combinator and feed them to accepted teams as pivot ideas?

14th September 2013

My answer to Does Paul Graham steal business models from teams not accepted into Y Combinator and feed them to accepted teams as pivot ideas? on Quora

No. If he did, word would quickly get around and strong teams would stop applying to YC.

Posted 14th September 2013 at 11:45 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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