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I write about how we design, build, and make decisions in the physical world — a field where success depends on navigating risk, timing, and tradeoffs.

crunchbase on Twitter: “When founding the highest valued company to graduate from @ycombinator thus far, the @Airbnb team nearly failed before YC’s @paulg accepted them into the program. Airbnb now boasts a reported valuation of $31 billion and is working on going public. 👉 https://t.co/jYxmzA5cPj… https://t.co/Ai4Im2JvvS”

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crunchbase on Twitter: “When founding the highest valued company to graduate from @ycombinator thus far, the @Airbnb team nearly failed before YC’s @paulg accepted them into the program.

Airbnb now boasts a reported valuation of $31 billion and is working on going public.

👉 https://t.co/jYxmzA5cPj… https://t.co/Ai4Im2JvvS”

See Marc Andreessen: “So one of the cautionary lessons of venture capital is, if you don’t invest in the bases with serious flaws, you don’t invest in most of the big winners. And we can go through example after example after example of that. “

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