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		Lionga 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups But they only got big when the commercial "hotels" came on and saw they could "work around" laws like that.

immibis 7 months ago | [–]

Yes... later. They couldn't have predicted it when they started. It sounded like a stupid idea when they started.

adastra22 7 months ago | [–]

That's the point--their utility wasn't obvious at first, until a new market showed up.

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