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Two men get fired at 48 and 35, go broke, and stack empty paint cans ten feet high so the shelves look full to customers. That is the first hour and it is the part I would keep.
What makes it more than a founding anecdote is that they keep going: you get the whole arc through to a company big enough that its problems become boring, and the boring problems turn out to be the instructive ones.
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