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Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos! Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire Sep 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:08 David Sacks You're starting to sound a little bit like Paul Graham there, that this is just some sort of random nut.

Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power Jul 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:40 Jason Calacanis I think Paul Graham's great innovation at Y Combinator was saying, I'm just going to accept two or three people who actually build the product. 2 times in the scene

Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:02 Jason Calacanis Allowing founders or telling founders the VCs are the enemies, like Paul Graham essentially does, um, saying governance isn't cool, um,

"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230? Sep 6, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 9:04 Jason Calacanis On Sunday, the Y Combinator founder, Paul Graham, published an essay titled Founder Mode. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:06 Jason Calacanis It's very different in the, the place where Paul Graham and I invest, year zero, year one of a company, and, uh, Chamaf, you alluded to this. 2 times in the scene

Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz Aug 9, 2024 · 1 mention

Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG Jul 26, 2024 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08:38 Jason Calacanis There has been a kerfuffle, a Donnybrook online between Paul Graham and our bestie, uh, David Sachs here. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:19:28 Jason Calacanis Paul Graham's feelings, you know, uh, in the Middle East sacks your strong feelings about Ukraine and politics. 8 times in the scene

E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more Feb 23, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:00 David Sacks I mean, that, but, you know, Paul Graham actually had an interesting tweet about this, where he said that,

Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more Dec 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:55:52 David Sacks And wasn't it Paul Graham who said something like if Sam were dropped on an island of cannibals, like kind of a Lord of the fly situation, he'd be the one to come out on top.

E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more Aug 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:40 Chamath Palihapitiya And so companies have no choice except to get profitable and get to default alive to use the famous Paul Graham quote.

E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more Jan 20, 2023 · 1 mention

E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions! Jan 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:35:03 Chamath Palihapitiya And, you know, Paul Graham, when Paul Graham picked Sam to run YC, Paul Graham said that this is the most impressive person I've met since Steve Jobs. 2 times in the scene

E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ Dec 24, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:38 David Friedberg Was the Paul Graham and journalists suspensions mistakes from, have you talked about this publicly, about how that all kind of got resolved at the end? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:38:27 David Friedberg You have to be willing to make decisions that could result in something not being done correctly or making a mistake and even getting embarrassed on the internet, you know, by making mistakes and having to call people like Paul Graham and…

#AIS: FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on how gamblers think May 30, 2022 · 1 mention

E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more Apr 9, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:29 Jason Calacanis And what was true at one point in time when Paul Graham gave this advice and he set up Y Combinator, you don't want to say their name, but it is Paul Graham had a terrible experience in his company with venture capitalists. 2 times in the scene

E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner Mar 26, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:16 Chamath Palihapitiya If you can't, if you can't show that you're, you know, to use the famous Paul Graham adage default alive in a moment like this, then you are a price taker, which means that you will have to pay probably a very high cost of capital to raise…

E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more Feb 25, 2022 · 1 mention

E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more Feb 19, 2022 · 10 mentions

E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more Jan 8, 2022 · 2 mentions

E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more Nov 13, 2021 · 1 mention

E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more Nov 11, 2020 · 2 mentions

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