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The article lists the many ways in which the bar for success - the minimum "table stakes" that you have to achieve in order to be considered success - have drastically risen, and then concludes with:

> we believe there’s never been a better time to build an application-layer software company.

Nothing could be a clearer indication that the primary desirable quality in a founder is the conviction that, against all odds, you are better than everyone else.



> The article lists the many ways in which the bar for success - the minimum "table stakes" that you have to achieve in order to be considered success - have drastically risen

Have seen how application processes for technical roles went, in less than a year, from considering AI cheating; to now requiring AI to do the take home or finish a live coding task


I'd rather take my $1M a year small company than cut-throat $10M a year revenue with VC funding any day.


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That was implied :)


If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.


I think there's a difference between "believe in yourself" and "have an ego the size of Jupiter" though


I think that too.

Which is why I said what I said.




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