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		dpapathanasiou on Oct 12, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What reddit taught me about startups: making money... I feel compelled to play devil's advocate on this one: not all popular sites wind up with happy endings (http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/06/figuring_it_out.ph...).

aheilbut on Oct 12, 2007 [–]

I suspect that the founders and early investors of both Skype and YouTube were reasonably happy with their endings.

dpapathanasiou on Oct 12, 2007 | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_bias

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