Paul Graham: “Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew how big their companies would get”

Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew how big their companies were going to get. All they knew was that they were onto something. Maybe it's a bad idea to have really big ambitions initially because the bigger your ambitions, the longer they're going to take to realize and the longer you're projecting into the future, the more likely you're going to be wrong. So I think the best way to do these big ideas is not to try and identify a precise point in the future and say, how do I get from here to there? Like the popular image of a visionary. I think a better model is Columbus who thought there's something to the west. I'll sail westward. Start with something that works, that, you know, works that's small and then when the opportunity comes to move, move westward. Right. The popular image of the visionary is someone with a very precise view of the future. But empirically it's probably better to have a blurry one.