This reminds me when I was going through the YC accelerator in 2012.
We were building a web-based email client, and PG didn’t like the idea. He pulled our team aside during one of the batch-wide Tues night dinners and suggested we pivot to building something that could take single threaded programs and quickly/easily make them multi-threaded.
No one on our team knew anything about threading (none of us had even graduated college). So we kept working on the email client, now defunct.
PG brought us in a back room where the Stripe founders were waiting (I think they were speaking that night). We were brainstorming ideas with them, and one of the brothers recommended we build something having to do with phones and calling people (don’t remember the idea anymore).
PG was not very happy when he heard we weren’t going to pivot and kept on working on a new email client :)
We were building a web-based email client, and PG didn’t like the idea. He pulled our team aside during one of the batch-wide Tues night dinners and suggested we pivot to building something that could take single threaded programs and quickly/easily make them multi-threaded.
No one on our team knew anything about threading (none of us had even graduated college). So we kept working on the email client, now defunct.
PG brought us in a back room where the Stripe founders were waiting (I think they were speaking that night). We were brainstorming ideas with them, and one of the brothers recommended we build something having to do with phones and calling people (don’t remember the idea anymore).
PG was not very happy when he heard we weren’t going to pivot and kept on working on a new email client :)