Five years ago, Arram Sabeti was a 21-year-old in Orange County and growing bored with the community college classes he was taking in computer science and philosophy. He worked part-time at a machine shop making medical equipment, but his eyes were starting to drift northward, attracted by the growing clout of entrepreneurs like those coming out of Paul Graham's Y Combinator incubator program. "I absorbed everything he wrote," says Sabeti of Graham's popular essays. "I was willing to do anything to get my foot in the door."
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