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Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:10 Harry Stebbings A line to that Paul Graham sparked some fire on Twitter last night because he posted about a YC company that apologized for only having 36% month-for-month growth because they were fundraising, and he got lots of plauders, and I thought it… 5 times in the scene
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:57 Harry Stebbings So funny, Paul Graham said last night, the new question that he asks all YC batch members is, how do we, like, AI protectify your product?
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:22 Ryan Petersen Actually, I got this from Paul Graham, where he said, there's two, every startup, if you see, like, a hockey stick growth curve, then there's two questions you need to ask.
- ▶ 54:35 Ryan Petersen PG said his advice to founders was always, you should hear the no, but ignore the why, because the odds of them telling the truth multiplied by the odds of them being correct are so low that you're just like very little signal in what…
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:53 Harry Stebbings Cause like, for VCs, you saw it last week, the VCs, like, Paul Graham tweets, and then, you know, Matt Miller tweets back, and I'm not saying anything about either individual, I like them both immensely. 4 times in the scene
AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:07 Harry Stebbings I think we've seen this prevailing trend of anti-delegation now, which is, you know, Paul Graham's founder mode and the importance of being in the weeds on certainly a number of things that traditionally would be delegated.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:10 Jason Lemkin Like I ain't that visionary, but, but, but I think if you ask Paul Graham or, or David Sachs, they would say, Harry, listen, I mean,
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:03:57 Max Altman I mean, I think I, like, Paul Graham connected me to Ron Conway, and then Ron's like, oh, you should meet this guy, Steve Anderson.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:58 Jason Calacanis This is the classic Paul Graham advice.
- ▶ 46:18 unnamed speaker Paul Graham, the OpenAI corporate development deal-making machine is second to none.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Rory O'Driscoll Paul Graham was right.
- ▶ 2:29 Rory O'Driscoll It speaks to OpenAI clearly, and this is why Paul Graham was right.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:51 Hemant Taneja So I'll never forget that one of my big messes when Paul Graham asked me to look at the seed round of Coinbase, and I said to myself, a Bitcoin ATM?
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:56 unnamed speaker That is a, you people, I mean, it is Paul Graham, you got to give him credit, said you could put him on an island with a bunch of cannibals and he'd be king.
20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- ▶ 50:21 Harry Stebbings Like you see Paul Graham's founder mode.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:13 Rory O'Driscoll That's just, yeah, they've done a great job representing their side, which is, I mean, again, going back to give them credit, the Paul Graham stated intent,
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:20 unnamed speaker If the owner of that business, Paul Graham can be sitting back in England, walking around the cute little bookstores and the machine keeps humming. 3 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:04 Jason Wilk Back when I did YC in, in, in, it was still Paul Graham and Jessica. 2 times in the scene
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:37 Harry Stebbings I think, like, Paul Graham said I was a moron, uh, but, uh, do you agree with that?
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:29 Harry Stebbings We obviously have Paul Graham kind of eulogized this earlier this year, but I'm just intrigued when you said about kind of organization and culture, I'm intrigued to see if you have data around whether founder led companies are enduring…
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:13 Fabien Pinckaers So I remember, um, an, um, an article of Paul Graham at the time, and he said if you want to have a big impact, to build a big company, you have to fix a big problem.
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:21 Harry Stebbings We saw Paul Graham be very, um, effective in expelling his thoughts on founder mode and the benefits of it. 3 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:29 Harry Stebbings They read founder mode from Paul Graham, and they read the U.S. articles, and they read everything that the U.S. founders consume, and then it's maybe operating in a different environment.
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:48 Harry Stebbings Paul Graham wrote about founder mode, and the incredible benefits of having founder-led companies.
Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:07 Harry Stebbings PG obviously famed for many things, but you know, obviously this blog post has been incredibly viral.
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings What did you make of PG's founder mode essay, which went incredibly viral recently? 2 times in the scene
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:33 Karri Saarinen I like a lot of book, Graham's essays. 4 times in the scene
Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:34 Harry Stebbings Obviously, PG's essay went completely viral. 3 times in the scene
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:46 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, if we think about Silicon Valley Central Casting, PG's essay on founder mode went incredibly viral, obviously, in the last month.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:35 Kaz Nejatian Yahoo Stores had won, which is like the, the Paul Graham product. 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:21 Harry Stebbings Do you give a shit when PG fights back?
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:25 Kevin Hartz Little known secret is, um, Keith, Javed and I gave an exploding term sheet to Airbnb, and Paul Graham, uh, said no bueno, and teed off on us. 6 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:31 Tom Blomfield The partners are specific, and then we have our own speakers, so, um, one night a week will be your group event, and you'll get someone like Brian Chesky, or Paul Graham, or we had Kevin's sister on the Instagram founder come and talk to…
- ▶ 58:30 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest takeaway from PG? 3 times in the scene
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:43:25 Daniel Dines Well, the guy that I, the guy that I think I learned the most in my, in my formative years is Paul Graham. 3 times in the scene
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:14 Harry Stebbings I think it's PG that commonly said that at YC.
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:06 Harry Stebbings I mean, like, bluntly PG comes to mind. 2 times in the scene
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:42 Harry Stebbings You know, I know Paul Graham has talked before with regard to you about doing things that don't scale.
- ▶ 11:56 Sanjit Biswas The other piece was we were bootstrapped, but we were kind of, I guess, ramen profitable would be like the YC or Paul Graham phrase.
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:49 Keith Rabois Paul Graham wrote this fabulous blog post called Relentlessly Resourceful, which is I think the trait that Mike's alluding to.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:14 Matteo Franceschetti And you see people like Paul Graham or Keith or Boyce, right?
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:33 Matthew Prince And then we, we, we actually, for, um, Paul Graham, who's someone a lot of your, uh, listeners will know, um, Paul, before he started Y Combinator, um, would host a, a conference at, at MIT called the MIT Anti-Spam Conference, and he would… 3 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:03 Drew Houston So to me, um, the dean of admissions here was Paul Graham, uh, the, uh, one of the founders of Y Combinator. 6 times in the scene
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 13:22 Ali Partovi I found this incredible startup with just truly what felt like magic, this company ViaWeb, whose CEO, Paul Graham, I could tell from within the first conversation was brilliant, and his other folks were also brilliant, and I really wanted… 6 times in the scene
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:51 Chris Sacca And, uh, and so, so that's how I kind of got into this, um, along the way where it really accelerated was in 2005 while I was still at Google, Paul Graham invited me to speak at the first startup school. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 5:36 Chris Sacca That's how I kind of got into this along the way where it really accelerated was in 2005 while I was still at Google, Paul Graham invited me to speak at the first startup school. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings David has raised over sixty-nine million dollars with Retool from some of the very best in startups, including Sequoia, YC, Patrick and John from Stripe, Henrique and Pedro at Brex, Paul Graham, Nat at GitHub,
- ▶ 10:16 David Hsu If you just go read every PG essay, you know, you could probably become a YC partner, basically, if you read every essay, and just maybe that's being a little bit uncharitable, but, you know, I think you could sort of get most, maybe, 95%…
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 33:26 Reid Hoffman So Paul Graham, who is a founder of Y Combinator, dropped me an email saying there's two Irish brothers, Patrick and John Collison, who are literally spectacular, and they're going to be reinventing banking, and that you should meet with… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to PG at YC and Gary Tan for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 23:47 Harry Stebbings Before we move into a quick follow-up, Alexis, I spoke to PG last night, and he said, in particular, you, uh, first met kind of when he was speaking at home. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:54 Alexis Ohanian Wait, Paul Graham? 10 times in the scene
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 8:30 Harry Stebbings I do want to kind of move to the venture world itself, and you know, you mentioned starting at Bessemer, and there's often this section around analysts and discussion around the role of analysts in venture, and PG said before, only speak… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 26:11 Julia DeWahl I think about Paul Graham and his essays.
20VC: How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit, How To Efficiently and Accurately Segment Users Into Cohorts, Why Investors Analysing CAC's at Pre-Seed Is Not Useful & How To Determine Between Customer Feedback to Accept vs Reject with Daniel Eric
- ▶ 7:13 Harry Stebbings I guess before we dive in, you know, there's so many terms thrown around for how to define product market fit from Sean Ellis to Sam Altman to Paul Graham.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 16:35 unnamed speaker That gave me some financial freedom to go live in a van and work on this and not have to worry about a paycheck for many years, which is great, but this is the project that I want to be doing for the rest of my life, and so I wanted to be…
20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Blake has raised over a hundred and sixty-six million dollars in funding with Boom, from the likes of Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Ray Taunting at Caffeinated Capital, Homebrew, and a dear friend of mine in Josh Buckley, to name a…
20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly
- ▶ 10:25 Harry Stebbings And, you know, Paul Graham and YC have said certain things, and other people have said lots of other things.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings Emmett, my word, I've heard so many great things from PG at YC, from Mike Maples, the team at Felicis, so it really is such a pleasure to have you on the show, and thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 4:32 Emmett Shear YC, I was an avid reader of Paul's essays, and YC gets announced that they're, they're running the summer founders program at the time in Boston.
- ▶ 5:14 Harry Stebbings I mean, you mentioned PG's essays there, and I mentioned to you beforehand, speaking to PG before this interview, and PG did have one question.
- ▶ 30:34 unnamed speaker And so the very first money in to Justin TV was Paul Graham, but at post pivot, we'd raised series a from all stop Louie.
20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- ▶ 13:12 Harry Stebbings I guess my question there is obviously heard Paul Graham before say don't talk to corp dev. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- ▶ 6:27 Josh Buckley And I met with Paul Graham, and because I'd already kind of interacted through some of my investing, like Daily Booth that got into Y Combinator, I got accepted into the program, and when I was 18, moved to Silicon Valley, Santa Clara to…
- ▶ 13:08 Josh Buckley We had to be a lot more scrappy, had to be relentlessly resourceful, as Graham says, and get to a stage where essentially the business is at breakout growth.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 28:28 unnamed speaker That are non-scalable, as Paul Graham would say, that the earliest stages to get off the ground, and then kind of light that fire that is either viral, as you might have seen in Airbnb and a lot of the, a lot of the, uh, network and…
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 17:15 Vlad Magdalin And we really just tempted to, I think we went back to PG all Graham and sort of said, we only raised, we're kind of targeting a million dollars, but we only raised 350 so far. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 4:05 Steve Huffman Alexis and I were college roommates, and we were going to start a company together called My Mobile Menu, which was, it would allow people to order food from their cell phones, which seemed novel at the time, but it was really, I think, an… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:14 Steve Huffman You know, Alexis then and now has always been a very, like, high charisma person, an easy conversation, kind of a charming, funny person, and so in the early days of Reddit, even in that story I just told you, those skills were really… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- ▶ 19:12 Ilya Sukhar Yeah, I think I kind of grew up as an entrepreneur in the YC ecosystem, and so Paul Graham's fundamental innovation and how he changed our entire world is he bet on folks that others weren't willing to, the kind of
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 6:43 Harry Stebbings And PG wrote a phenomenal piece about why this is such a great business and business model to operate.
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 13:39 Kulveer Taggar So, you know, I knew Paul Graham, my co-founder back then, Srinivas Pangaluri, he'd also done YC. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 5:28 Geoff Ralston A year later in 1998, Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, his company via web was purchased by Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Geoff Ralston If you have an awesome team that gives you that idea, you might say, well, gosh, you know, maybe there's some adjacent market that might be fantastic, and Paul Graham had the genius to see that, and the genius to see that the Bryan team… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 Geoff Ralston I like to look back to what I call Paul Graham's original epiphany when he started Y Combinator in 2005. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:05 Geoff Ralston Paul Graham used to say this in a really blunt way, which is as a founder, you have two choices, quit or get rich. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:24 Geoff Ralston Well, that was actually Paul's superpower.
- ▶ 23:51 Geoff Ralston So if you read Paul's original essay about the founding of Y Combinator, which you can Google and find, talked about this, which was how can we fund a whole bunch of properties at the same time with standard documents?
- ▶ 27:57 Geoff Ralston Extraordinary, amazing, incredible people from Paul and Trevor and Robert and Jessica, the founders, to Sam, the Collisons, the incredible founders of incredible YC companies, Drew Houston, Brian Chesky's, the incredible founders of newer… 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 10:30 Harry Stebbings Kind of speaking of this, though, naturally, I love chatting to you, but, um, Paul Graham once said that startups should only talk to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:35 Harry Stebbings In terms of the process itself, and touching back on the wonderful Paul Graham, he said before that the process can be grueling.
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20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 8:51 Rahul Vohra So I started with Paul Graham, you know, what would Paul Graham have to say about something like this? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- ▶ 12:36 Tom Blomfield And we went to, I remember very vividly talking to Paul Graham at Y Combinator about this. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 27:14 Ooshma Garg That is a Paul Graham quote, and essentially it describes our industry very well.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 10:26 Harry Stebbings How would you respond to Paul Graham's fantastically titled essay, Don't Talk to Corp Dev? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:08 Harry Stebbings Paul Graham said that it's a grueling process. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 30:14 Alex Taussig There was sort of a response to something Paul Grant had said on Twitter, which was that effectively MBAs don't start companies and it's just patently not true.
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- ▶ 15:23 Leore Avidar Like I think Paul Graham calls it like default alive or default dead.
20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
- ▶ 3:45 Harry Stebbings Uh, so I want to start on the theme of leadership and great leadership between you and Paul Graham, PG, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Harry Stebbings I've heard from many of your partners, from Ali to Paul to Aaron, about your special relationship with PG. 5 times in the scene
20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- ▶ 7:07 Harry Stebbings I do want to move on to the process itself, though, and we discussed the landscape, so digging a little deeper on the process, Paul Graham said before, don't talk to Corp Devon, so we're going to pick out some of the elements from his… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 Harry Stebbings And if we move one step further down the funnel, from ideation to the process itself, um, not to pick on Paul, but he previously described the process as grueling. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 4:00 Paul Buchheit So again, I just kind of randomly happened upon Paul Graham's essays. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:08 Paul Buchheit And PG, you know, I, I think one of the things that's most remarkable is just the level of enthusiasm that he can have for other people's ideas. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 7:25 Jonathan Abrams You know, when did Paul Graham start Y Combinator?
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 3:16 Daniel Gross I did the Y Combinator interview, and I finished the interview, and I didn't think it went quite well, but I was still happy to have gotten a free ticket out to see San Francisco in the Bay Area, and then Paul Graham, as I was walking… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 Daniel Gross It is less likely that Airbnb would have been created had Michael Seibel not recruited the founders to Y Combinator, introduced them to Paul Graham, the program had been set up in place, the investment been available, demo day being…
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