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If founding work is so simple then founders should be interchangeable? Where is the moat that ensures what two handful of people cobbled together is not replicated? Isn't it that the real moat and the real propelling force becomes more and more the capital leveraged?

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Most Founders are interchangeable. The entire business of YC is paying for a ton of people to found a ton of companies and hoping one hits. Luck is a huge factor. The issue is the 1 guy that does hit has an outsize impact on society. Sometimes it's positive but often it's not.

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