Hacks and combinators

I have been lucky enough to inter­view Paul Graham, partner at venture firm Y Combinator and author of Hackers and Painters, about Web 2.0 and some of the business issues it has provoked. Paul has an inter­esting take on who is going to be powerful in coming years: “A hacker with design sense is

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Paul Graham on 2.0

Paul Graham, one of the most level-​​​​headed and insightful com­ment­ators on this subject, analyses O’Reilly’s essay (post below) and ends up agreeing that the “2.0″ label is unfor­tu­nate since what we’re describing is not so revolu­tionary after all. It’s more of a question of learning from the mistakes of the past and putting much more focus

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