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"Founders at Work", written by Jessica is what got me into HN (and I was an initial lurker for quite sometime).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_at_Work

Note: YC didn't have HN to begin with, it was launched 1-year later (Oct 2006 as seen by pg profile). And the book was launched the subsequent year (2007).

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

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In case you’re not aware, there is a podcast by Jessica Livingston and Carolyn Levy called “The Social Radars” that interviews founders.

Downloading it now. I didn't know about it. Looks like there are a lot of big names!

Thanks for the recommendation; I’ll check it out!

I love that this podcast only comes every two weeks. Some (like Software Engineering Daily) are far too often so I either feel the paradox of choice or that I’m missing out.

Such an inspiring book - I still have it by my desk :) I bought it because they covered Joel's FogBugz and 37Signal's Basecamp (I was building a competitor product back then).

It’s the book that started it all for me. The Hotmail story is one of my favourites.

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