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general_failure on May 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The trick Max Levchin used to hire the best engine...

This is one of those 'success has many parents'. Most of these stories are semi-made up after success.

jacques_chester on May 31, 2013 [–]

Success is like failure: it only exists backwards in time.

Generally we take a hammer and beat the messy chaos of reality until it resembles the monomyth.

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