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Brian Hasa Secret
Brian Armstrong stepped out of his car, felt soft California sunshine on his bald head, and smelled eucalyptus. He gazed at the façade of Y Combinator: the one-story building, just five miles from Google’s Mountain View campus, looked more like a sleepy suburban office park than a famous startup school that had educated the founders of Stripe, Dropbox, and other billion-dollar companies. Brian didn’t care about the place’s humdrum appearance. He knew who had gone there before him. The founders of Airbnb, a company he’d just left, had come out of Y Combinator, and so had the CEOs of other Silicon Valley stars like Doordash, Twitch, and Reddit. Brian, pale and shy-looking at first glance, exuded a quiet confidence from his trim ...
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