Paul Graham Once Said Its A 'Bad Idea' To Have Lofty Ambitions Early, 'Neither Bill Gates Nor Mark Zuckerberg Knew How Big Their Companies Would Get'

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Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham once said that aspiring entrepreneurs should ditch grand "visionary" road maps and instead launch something small that works, then follow its momentum westward like “Columbus."

What Happened: Graham, back in 2012, told attendees at Pycon during a keynote that, "Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with small things and grow them bigger," citing Microsoft‘s first BASIC interpreter and Facebook's dorm-room photo site as examples.