Viaweb
company on 9 shows · 8 statements across 5 episodes · said 39 times in 15 episodes since 2018
Founders 11 
20VC 9 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 7 
TBPN 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
In Depth 2 
the Knowledge Project 2 
My First Million 2 
the MAD Podcast 1
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Founders 1120VC 9the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 7TBPN 3Founder's Journal 2In Depth 2My First Million 2the Knowledge Project 21 more shows
2025 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 7 mentions in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 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"
- Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
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8 statements about Viaweb, every show
Garry Tan: Paul Graham created the first web browser-based application
“He actually basically created the first web browser based program. So he was one of the first people to hook up a web request to an actual program in Unix.”
Graham: Viaweb intentionally chose harder features just to handicap slower competitors
“If there were two features we could add to our software, both equally valuable in proportion to their difficulty, we would always take the harder one. Not just because it was more valuable, but because it was harder. We delighted in forcing bigger, slower comp…”
Graham: True excellence requires love for the craft and independent projects
“You can't do anything really well unless you love it, and if you love to hack, you'll inevitably be working on projects of your own.”
Graham: A misunderstood technical edge is the most valuable business asset
“In business, there's nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand.”
Senra: Graham's Viaweb sold to Yahoo for $50M in two years
“I think within two years, they sold it for close to fifty million dollars to Yahoo.”
Ralston: Paul Graham's Viaweb was the first web SaaS business
“They had created really the first SAS business On the web at the time, which was an online shopping cart.”
Paul Graham: Viaweb was likely the first web application
“Ok, so, what we made was something that is now called a web app. I believe, at the time it was the first one, and, ah, that's why the company was called ViaWeb, because it worked via the web.”
Graham: Morris voted for lowball ViaWeb acquisition offers to quit
“Whenever we got an, whenever you get an acquisition offer, the board has to at least consider it, right? And so, you would get these crap lowball acquisition offers. We'll give you, like, two million dollars in our stock, right? And Robert was like, yes, no, n…”