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21 Sep, 2014

Charlie Rose interview

Rose interviews Graham at Disrupt about how to pick successful founders, what Y Combinator does and how it got started, and whether a startup is easier to create now than it was in the past. Graham:

It used to be that what cost money was getting a computer, now everybody has a computer, you needed money for a fast internet connection but now everyone has one

He says the mechanisms for providing funding from investors to startups have also become much smoother.

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