Google’s plan, for example, was simply to create a search site that didn’t suck,” Graham wrote. And look where that had led. Lightbulb moments were passé. It was the founders who mattered, and the best were hackers—programmers who were willing to break conventional wisdom to build new things. As a hacker, “you could be 36 times more productive than you’re expected to be in a random corporate job,” he wrote.
