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Ask PG: Why did you stop making products?

10 pointsby sunjainalmost 12 years ago
YCombinator is the best thing to happen to startups..However if you look at folks like Jobs and Musk etc, their main reason for having a company is so that they can build the products they envision(everything else is secondary). You started making product(sold to Yahoo) but switched to being an incubator and mentor. Any reasons? Isn't making products more satisfying than being incubator/mentor?

5 comments

brudgersalmost 12 years ago
If higher-order functions can produce functions, could there be a higher order companies which produce companies?<p>The name YCombinator is not accidental. The holy-grail is the fixed-point for startups.
blackdogiealmost 12 years ago
Technically he&#x27;s still doing products. I&#x27;m sure that he&#x27;s had different levels of input in all of the YC companies.
seijialmost 12 years ago
The viaweb project was created to exit so they would become dot com millionaires. That&#x27;s still their continuing mission.
Liongaalmost 12 years ago
Hackernews is a product. There is no buyer, it is still a product.
yossilacalmost 12 years ago
Maybe the YC startups are the products? :)
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