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Trevor Blackwell and the Art of Staying Upright

He helped put shops on the web, startups on a new footing and robots on two uncertain legs. Across three decades, Trevor Blackwell has kept returning to the same absorbing question: how do you make an unstable system work?

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Legend

Founder · Investor · Engineer

Paul Graham

Paul Graham is a programmer, essayist, and co-founder of Y Combinator, the seed accelerator that launched Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Reddit, and OpenAI. He sold his first startup Viaweb to Yahoo for $49.6 million in 1998, then used that platform to build one of the most influential idea-factories in tech history. His essays at paulgraham.com have become the de facto canon of startup culture, read by millions of founders seeking clarity on how to build, think, and live.

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