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dmoney on Nov 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Y Combinator Interview

I notice there's a question about patentability, but some of your essays say to ignore software patents. What changed your mind?

pg on Nov 25, 2010 [–]

It seems a stupid question now. I'm not sure when we dropped it. Patents do matter in a small subset of startups, but only if you first make the company work.

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