# Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

<http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire. That might sound like an attractive prospect, and yet when I describe these ideas you may notice you find yourself shrinking away from them.

## Facts

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- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html