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There are two loops in every founder's head. The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction. The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction. Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush. PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge. Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second. There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.