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Compare and contrast with this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106

Just goes to show there's no right answer.

What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another.

I'm curious about anyone else who successfully scaled through partnerships.

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Yep, there is no right answer in this. In our case, a partnership where we built something together or on top of a framework is working very good for us, as we create new products. So we have 2 options, we either work on new products from scratch or we partner to create something better. Don't know if Paul Graham talked about this way of working, I think he was thinking of partnership = "a big enterprise said something about you". Hope I understand right his tweets.

The problem I’ve had is filtering out the time wasters, there are so many that I eventually started saying no to everybody who approached with an “opportunity”.

BTW, if you find an answer to that, I would be interested.

pg is naturally opposed to any business model that isn't the one he promotes through YC. It's not particularly interesting to here the details of that.

If it worked, he or YC would have every reason to favor it. So if you're right, this supports what pg said.

I don't think YC is opposed to their startups signing partnerships. He seems to have experience that suggests it has been tried but doesn't work.

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