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Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012
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- Presented by Joel Spolsky, founder of Stack Exchange and Fog Creek Software
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
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Joel Spolsky shares his perspective on building software startups, organic growth, and the history of Fog Creek Software and Stack Exchange.
Joel Spolsky, founder of StackExchange and Fog Creek Software, at Y Combinator Startup School on October 20, 2012. Presented in Stanford Memorial Auditorium by Y Combinator and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.Why it's here
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