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Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 30:54 Aaron Levie Kind of the Paul Graham term kind of like emerged on, you know, the past year on this topic, which is just like, like event. 4 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 17:20 unnamed speaker Um, I remember a few months ago, Paul Graham was trying to critique Palantir, I think, for sort of involvement in some sort of military.
How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- ▶ 19:10 Ben Scharfstein And, you know, Paul Graham wrote this about schlep blindness.
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 2:49 Ben Horowitz Yeah, you know, it's funny because, uh, we, Paul and, and us started, you know, around the same time. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:49 Ben Horowitz And I thought Paul's genius was the ideas weren't his.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 14:56 Balaji Srinivasan So here's, here's a great, great, great tweet, um, by Paul, actually Paul Graham, and then I think, uh, you know, here's my reply to it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:52 Erik Torenberg People like Paul Graham, Catherine Boyle, Mike Moritz. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:51 Balaji Srinivasan So the thing is most people think from, again, remember the Paul Graham thing about, you know, you learn from the movies, the Jurassic ballpark.
- ▶ 1:20:23 Balaji Srinivasan Remember that Paul Graham thing about the movies?
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
- ▶ 23:59 Erik Torenberg Paul Graham, when he started Y Combinator, identified that technical founders were undervalued, that they were being underappreciated and people thought, oh, you know, you need to have an MBA or, and you realize, hey, it's easier to teach…
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 30:49 unnamed speaker So the, you know, it's funny, uh, cause there was the, on Twitter, there was the sort of Paul Graham Palantir dust up the other week, which I thought was just pretty symbolic or emblematic of kind of like, uh, not to pick on Paul, but it… 6 times in the scene
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 3:32 Wade Foster And, you know, we didn't know much about, like, California, Silicon Valley, things like that, but, you know, we'd read PG's essays, we were a fan of Hacker News and YC, and we thought, you know, it'd be nice if we get accepted and, like,
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 10:28 Marc Andreessen What Paul Graham says is his famous advice to founders is, quote, do things that don't scale. 2 times in the scene
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 3:07 Steph Smith I happened to stumble upon a video with Paul Graham and Sam Altman from 2013 YC office hours.
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 27:35 Justin Kan So those people, Paul Graham, great example, founder of Y Combinator, Paul Buhay, who is like a partner of Y Combinator, but the inventor of Gmail inside of Google.
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 10:59 Ben Horowitz You know, I think Paul Graham did a Y Combinator study a while back, and he said, like, two is the ideal number of founders, and you could see where that would help in that it's a psychologically
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- ▶ 1:01 Chris Dixon And I think a lot of blogging and other kinds of stuff has been out there from like Paul Graham and Fred Wilson and things about fundraising and product
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 17:06 Jeff Jordan And, and, I mean, you, you, in your current venture, you have two of the most prominent, well-respected, early stage investors in Ron Conway and Paul Graham.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 20:15 Sten Tamkivi 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… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy
- ▶ 22:16 Tracy Chow The startup advice that Paul Graham gives is to solve problems that you have yourself.
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 19:46 Tom Lehman The other side of it is just an experience that, that we had, like, particularly in Y Combinator, which was just, we get to Y Combinator, and, you know, frankly, I personally, at least, was totally starstruck, you know, like Paul Graham in… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- ▶ 15:59 Blake Masters Well, and then here's the whole catch, you know, Paul Graham has an essay, uh, what, what, what you're not allowed to say or what you can't say.
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 30:56 Chris Dixon Uh, talking about Y Combinator, Paul Graham was in Boston, my company was in Boston, and I pitched him, I'd read his anti-spam blog post, and I was trying, I had this whole idea to use like hashcash, it's funny, these same characters…