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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg didn't live near San Francisco, would he have ever worked with Sean Parker?

That's the question Paul Graham, founder of influential tech incubator Y Combinator, posed recently to a room full of New York tech entrepreneurs.

"Facebook in 2004 needed Sean Parker," Graham said, referring to the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's first president following an encounter with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the streets of Palo Alto. "To make a startup hub, you need lots of people interested in startups. If you don't have density, the chance meetings just don't happen."

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Author: Laurie Segall