Paul Graham
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Sten Tamkivi · said 46 times in 20 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ben Horowitz (9), Balaji Srinivasan (6), Aaron Levie (4), Erik Torenberg (3), Tom Lehman (2), Sten Tamkivi (2), Marc Andreessen (2), Garry Tan (2)
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Jan 2, 2019
No more than 5% of the world's top tech talent is in Silicon Valley
“That's, yeah. That's a recent pointer was Paul Graham wrote a great essay on this topic, is that reminding the American public and the tech scene that if you look at the statistics, if you look at the probability or the distribution of the top tech talent in t…”
Aug 1, 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: Thiel, Graham, and Page would be jurists and professors earlier
“Peter Thiel would have been probably, they'd be more than 20 years earlier, probably would have been a Supreme Court jurist, right? Probably would have been like, you know, chief judge of the Supreme Court or something. Paul Graham would have been a professor.…”
Aug 23, 2025 bullish
Horowitz says Paul Graham's Y Combinator succeeded by requiring founder-owned ideas
“And I thought Paul's genius was the ideas weren't his. And that's was the difference between an incubator and an accelerator. And that I think, you know, just proved to be the right model. And the reason it's the right model is because whoever's building the c…”