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Mark Cuban Calls Paul Graham and YC Entitled and Arrogant

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Building the best product is how most startups win, not by marketing

Funny, after building many things, I'm starting to think the only thing that matters is marketing. It certainly isn't the tech or product quality.

Sacca was absolutely right. It's bizarre that Paul Graham thinks anyone appearing on Shark Tank is doing it as a substitute to traditional fundraising. It's entertainment, not investing, and it's fantastic exposure for the participants.

Telling people to do something like YC instead of Shark Tank is like telling people to do YC instead of appearing on The Tonight Show.

To me they are for totally different types businesses. Most of the Shark Tank businesses are hope to get on QVC type products/businesses which would never get into YC. Very few software companies try to get on there. probably because the valuations are much more inline with traditional business valuation not high grow companies.

I agree, which still reinforces the point that it's really weird for Paul Graham to attack Shark Tank. They're just totally different entities with different purposes.

Pot Kettle nice to meet you. Name a billionaire that isn't full of themselves. It's almost a prerequisite to think your better than everyone else to start a company. Let alone be super successful at it. Just some people are better at pretending humility better than others.

Gates? Considering what he's achieved I always found him quite humble.

Here's a guy perfectly justified if he said "I am much more brilliant than everyone else". This take over the world thing is quite new amongst tech entrepreneurs. From my understanding.. he knew he was onto something big, but super-billionaire was not in the expectations.

Gates (and Page, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerburg, Kalanick, etc.) don't say they're more brilliant than everyone else, they act like it. Rather than say they're going to take over the world, they actually do it.

It's a little fascinating to me that culturally, we look down upon people who talk about dominating their opponents, but look up to people who say nothing but actually do dominate their opponents. But then, I suppose it fits with "actions speak louder than words".

Use the original title if possible.

Additionally, the article does not mention Chris Sacca guested in Shark Tank.

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