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0 pointspg16y ago0 comments

I don't think it's essential. When we invest in people's first startups, we're not doing it just to fund their personal growth. We hope the startups will actually succeed.

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nreece16y ago· 1 in thread

I wasn't referring to YC, but your personal endeavour with Viaweb. When you say that you were/are passionate about not failing, I was wondering if you rationally consider failure to be an essential catalyst for eventual success?!

andreyf16y ago

I was wondering if you rationally consider failure to be an essential catalyst for eventual success?!

I don't see any rational reason for failure to cause success. There might be a correlation, since failure might be correlated with experience, and experience with success.

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