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The Manufactured Urgency of YC Demo Day

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Tom Monaghan couldn’t believe his luck. By the fall of 1983, he’d turned $900 into a restaurant empire with 1,100 locations, up from 200 locations just 5 years earlier. Remarkably, the best was yet to come. The following year, Domino’s Pizza -- the brainchild of Tom and his brother James, who traded his early stake for a VW Beetle -- launched …