Ask PG: Why did you stop making products?

  • If higher-order functions can produce functions, could there be a higher order companies which produce companies?

    The name YCombinator is not accidental. The holy-grail is the fixed-point for startups.

  • Technically he's still doing products. I'm sure that he's had different levels of input in all of the YC companies.

  • The viaweb project was created to exit so they would become dot com millionaires. That's still their continuing mission.

  • Hackernews is a product. There is no buyer, it is still a product.

  • Maybe the YC startups are the products? :)