"Zuck also mentioned that he can't relate to wanting to start a company for the sake of starting a company. I thought it was notable that Paul Graham interjected that he wished more people wanted to start companies"
That is not what pg interjected with. He said he wished more people had companies that started themselves, like facebook did. As in, I have to build this company because this little project is growing like a weed and it's my responsibility to see it through - as opposed to more founders who just want to be founders.
That was touched on by someone else, whoever was talking about persistence, where there are tons of people who do a project for 6mos and then abandon it. Maybe a "company" can be defined in this context as something that effort is put into sustaining, e.g. "a company follows from committing to an idea."
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"Zuck also mentioned that he can't relate to wanting to start a company for the sake of starting a company. I thought it was notable that Paul Graham interjected that he wished more people wanted to start companies"
That is not what pg interjected with. He said he wished more people had companies that started themselves, like facebook did. As in, I have to build this company because this little project is growing like a weed and it's my responsibility to see it through - as opposed to more founders who just want to be founders.
That was touched on by someone else, whoever was talking about persistence, where there are tons of people who do a project for 6mos and then abandon it. Maybe a "company" can be defined in this context as something that effort is put into sustaining, e.g. "a company follows from committing to an idea."
I believe that was David Rusenko of Weebly.
I will have to re-watch that part and correct it, thanks for pointing this out.