“Most of the time, startup ideas don't work. Most of the time, the world stays as it is. The status quo has an advantage; it has a built-in upper hand. For a startup to win, it has to be not merely better than what's there; it has to propose something radically different, something that never could have existed before.”
— Mike Maples Jr
Venture capitalist and early-stage investor, founder of Founders Fund

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