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You do not displace Google by attacking it head-on; you wait until the world has changed enough to make its model obsolete, which is what OpenAI did.
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What Paul Graham actually said
- Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
the way you make a new Google is not by attacking them head on. You have to wait for things to change so much that their model is is obsolete and that's when you can do it. And that's what Open AI is.
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Watch from 4:23 plays here↗Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Foundersyoutube.com
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