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The second one is not by Jessica -- seems to be an inspired imitation.

Thanks to Jessica for all her work and heart she is putting helping founders succeed and this way inspire others around the world to keep creating great things.

As far as I am aware, Jessica has not done this.

Thank you Jessica for sharing your thoughts.

I think what Jessica is getting at is that the most robust founders have perseverance (the first 3 all roll up to that trait) but aren't too stubborn to change their idea (#4).

Most of the advice yc gives is 'open source', for example, paul graham's essays and books, jessica livingston's book, the yc startup school etc, so you don't need to get into yc to learn what they have to say.

So they clearly don't make founders succeed, making "What Makes Founders Succeed" a poor title for Jessica's post.

I'm sure most HN user's out there have heard of Jessica Livingston's book "Founders at Work".

Chapter 3 of "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingston.

To tie this back to tech, Susan Lammers' "Programmers at Work" interviews from the mid-1980s (consistently), and Jessica Livingston's "Founders at Work" (at its best) both bring this same kind of openness and honesty.

There is no evidence that the Hill Sisters (Jessica or Patty) granted anyone the right to publish the Happy Birthday to You!

Perhaps all Paul, Jessica, RTM and Trevor care about is a good idea (or not so good idea) with a solid team.

I think we all agree here, but Jessica's point is about some traits that many successful founders shared among themselves.