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Graham: Silicon Valley VCs get better returns than European VCs
“Silicon Valley investors get better returns than European investors despite having to decide so quickly.”
Paul Graham: Viaweb was likely the first web application
“Ok, so, what we made was something that is now called a web app. I believe, at the time it was the first one, and, ah, that's why the company was called ViaWeb, because it worked via the web.”
Graham: Y Combinator launched in under a week using email ASCII forms
“We launched YC probably in less than a week of having the idea. Of course, launching it was merely saying, was merely posting a website and, ah, and we didn't have any software in the beginning. People, we just had this ASCII form that people would fill out an…”