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by Larry Chiang (no rights reserved, no copyright, no attribution or link back requested \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

One essay takes you from Silicon Valley outsider to Bay Area insider.<\/p>\n

This essay.<\/p>\n

This one essay gets you deeper into YC and deeper than deep into Stanford University knowledge. This essay is the sequel to Paul Graham’s three quarters baked, essay “What Microsoft is this, the Altair Basic of?”<\/p>\n

#hiLarryAss: I take what alpha males flippantly publish direct to Techmeme. I bookmark it. I read it in my dorm room. I print it out in my brain. Then I re-read and read. And then re-read. Remember, PG (Paul Graham) tweeted<\/a>, “This most important graph I draw for founders” BUT DOES HE EMBED THIS PIC INTO THE BLOG POST OF THE SAME NAME!?! … no!!!<\/p>\n

I took time to make this…<\/p>\n\"PG:<\/a> PG: This graph I draw all the time for FOUNDERS (artist rendition credit: Larry CHIANG)\n

The point of this graph is to emphasize: altair basic was a big turd that made very few, Uber happy*.
\nThe point of this graph is to emphasize What They Don’t Teach You at YC but do teach you in ENGR145: Cross ‘The Chasm’** From The Right*.
\nThe point of this graph is to make an incredibly small subset of dinosaurs happy.
\nThe point of this graph to emphasize your startup is poop about to be polished up<\/a><\/p>\n\"Artist<\/a> Artist credit: Paul Graham, co-founder Y combinator.\n

Let me repeat: You want to make a small group, super duper happy.<\/p>\n

The point of this graph is to emphasize: EUBM. Engineer up a business model
\nThe point of this graph is to emphasize: Sell it first. Then. Code it
\nThe point of this graph is to ace ‘marketing timing’ with a widget that is fugly.
\nThis graph teases: Do things that dont scale but have momentum #dttdsBHM<\/p>\n

PG did not even take the time to embed this pic. His pic, into HIS blog article that shares the same name. PG wrote a blog post in the exact title of this blog post. PG drew the graph. PG did not take the extra time to mentor you by embedding the graph of the same name into this blog post, of the same name. But, I did.<\/p>\n\"Pattern<\/a> Pattern recognition: This Altair Basic slide is not as sexy as it needs to be. Why?! Flipping the vertical axis and switching the curves to points gets rid of the penis shaped graph in FIG 1; Fig 2; Fig 4 and Fig 8\n

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*No rights reserved. Funny double entendre was intended.<\/p>\n

One essay takes you from Silicon Valley outsider to Bay Area insider RE: What Microsoft is this, the Altair Basic of? Unfortunately, you’re gonna have to re read it because it is written in #LarryChiangSky (semi intelligible American. Dbl entendre to make my last name sound Polish is intended \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thus, then I solved this blog post: “What Microsoft Is This The Altair Basic of.” with a sequence of pictures like a true Steven Zumdahl mentee:
\nFTC Disclosure: Chalmers Sechrist was an asshole. He confirmed this fact in an email to me.<\/p>\n

RE What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of? Larry Chiang is CTCFTR ENGR-145<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\"What<\/a> Pattern recognition: What Microsoft is this, startup-that-is-pitching-me-in-Coupa Cafe; the Altair Basic, of? (Insert phallic joke here)\n

I am actually physically turned on right now.<\/p>\n

Set aside PG for a moment. Forget about Altair Basic. Focus on the chasm.
\n**The innovation chasm:<\/p>\n\"Figure<\/a> Figure 6.2 from Professor Blank’s #ENGR245 book: The Chasm\n

The attempt to cross ‘the chasm’** in the Geoffrey Moore sense of the phrase:
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