A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

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Explaining Y Combinator

There are thousands of smart people who could start companies and don't, and with a relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place, we can spring on the world a stream of new startups that might otherwise not have existed. [Paul Graham, Why YC] Paul Graham wrote this in 2006, just one year after co-founding the startup accelerator, Y Combinator (YC). And in his most recent essay, “How to Do Great Work,” he broadens the claim: “Many more people could try to do great work than do.” Paul Graham often analogizes starting a startup to a kind of “economic research.” Taken…

A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

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