When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking. (Tim O'Reilly)

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Tim O'Reilly

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