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In “What We Look for in Founders“, Y Combinator principal Paul Graham lists the top 5 traits that his vulture capital investment company looks for in a would-be entrepreneur:

1. Determination
2. Flexibility
3. Imagination
4. Naughtiness
5. Friendship

While writing about “determination”, Mr. Graham says:

“We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most important quality would be intelligence. That’s the myth in the Valley.”

Note that the following traits that pervade toxic corpocracies everywhere are not on the list:

1. infallibility
2. arrogance
3. entitlement
4. image
5. bloodline