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Paul Graham told the founders of Airbnb to “Do things that don’t scale” and it became an early mantra that informed many important moves for the company. Nathan Blecharczyk and Paul discuss how companies from Vayable to HomeJoy can build businesses that cross the chasm by doing things that aren’t built to scale… and then scaling them.
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During an interview[1] (with one of the AirBnB founders no less), pg offered the general advice that startups should search for success using a hill climbing algorithm, and not worry about dangerous local maximums; only to be immediately confronted with the counter example of AirBnB (the cereal episode).

That company just seems to be an outlier in multiple categories.

[1] http://youtu.be/nrWavoJsEks at about 7:00

jacquesm
Which is amusing if you realize that VC depends on outliers in order to make it to the next cycle.

In other words: the only worthwhile companies for VCs are the ones that do not follow the set patterns and to which the rules do not apply.

I had this PG advice tagged:

"When growth plateaus you pretty much have to start from scratch. You have to treat your situation as if you needed to come with a new startup idea. You can't just somehow revitalize things."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrWavoJsEks#t=9m45s

Jun 05, 2014 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by staunch
May 21, 2014 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by jztein
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