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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 2 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.683s | source
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sixQuarks ◴[07 Feb 19 15:53 UTC] No.19105943[source]▶
Ouch, number 2 employee at Pinterest - a $10 billion company that’s about to go public this year.

He probably would have been worth an easy 100-200 million.

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1. galfarragem ◴[08 Feb 19 00:08 UTC] No.19109986[source]▶
Paraphrasing (probably Nietzsche):

"There are only 3 kinds of people: the poor that wants to be rich, the rich that wants to continue being rich and the idealist, that using his ideals wants to be rich."

2. sctb ◴[08 Feb 19 20:49 UTC] No.19118534[source]▶
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