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Seems like both were necessary. Palmer had an idea and made a prototype, Carmack came in and helped spearhead the execution into a business.

Isn't that a fairly standard way that startups get started?




Well yeah, isn't that what the GP was saying? Palmer had the initial idea and cobbled together a very basic proof-of-concept, Carmack then did the heavy lifting.




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