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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paul Graham comes up
Agencies are wildly underrated
- ▶ 13:43 Alex Lieberman While some may say that venture capital not being interested in agency businesses is a bug of the agency business model, I think it's a feature because you have no choice but to start cash flowing your agency on day one and be default…
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 5:02 Alex Lieberman Here's a tweet from Paul Graham that Lenny includes in the essay.
How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
- ▶ 0:34 Alex Lieberman The second essay, which is called Default Alive or Default Dead, which you may have heard of, is by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:35 Alex Lieberman Indeed, Paul Graham from YC has developed the metric of quote, default alive to reflect capital efficiency as a core sort of startup metric. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Alex Lieberman So this essay by Paul Graham, which is titled default alive or default dead, it's pro it's one of the top 10 most famous startup essays of all time. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:17 Alex Lieberman Okay, I want to just read a few more passages from the PG essay, and then we're going to move back to Elad Gill.
- ▶ 10:22 Alex Lieberman PG then goes on to say, there is another reason founders don't ask themselves whether they're default alive or default dead. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Alex Lieberman So three interesting notes from like the, the footnote section of the PGSA. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:27 Alex Lieberman And those are thoughts and, I guess, my analysis on how to spend wisely from two of the greatest startup investors in the world, Elad Gill and Paul Graham.
The First Amazon Shareholder Letter: Summarized & Analyzed
- ▶ 3:29 Alex Lieberman As is evident from what Bezos says here, and what startup veterans like Paul Graham or Marc Andreessen preach, time and market are two of the most important considerations when launching a new company.
Measuring Product Market Fit
- ▶ 4:01 Rahul Vohra Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, would say it's when you made something that people want.
How To Raise Capital Successfully with Dan Siroker
- ▶ 9:47 Dan Siroker Uh, I think Paul Graham talked about the, the inspiration for the Y Combinator model came out of when he sold ViaWeb.
Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board
- ▶ 26:35 Brett Adcock Paul Graham talks about it all the time. 2 times in the scene
First Time Founders vs. Second Time Founders
- ▶ 4:46 Alex Lieberman I just pulled one up and this one happens to have a response from Paul Graham, uh, two days ago.
How To Find Great Business Ideas Using Effectuation
- ▶ 5:05 Michael Girdley You can't, you know, Paul Graham's correct.
Where I Go For Startup Ideas
- ▶ 5:17 Alex Lieberman The reason I call these things puddles and oceans plays into a famous essay by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:17 Alex Lieberman Paul Graham has this great visual framework to understand what this means in practice. 4 times in the scene
“Build An Elite Navy Seals of Business” - Lessons from Airbnb’s Founder
- ▶ 1:53 Alex Lieberman The story goes that they were interviewing with Paul Graham to get into Y Combinator when the Accelerator was in its early days, and it seemed like people were pretty uninterested by the idea of strangers staying in your home, and as they…
Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew
- ▶ 18:47 Austin Rief It's, you know, Paul Graham does one.
How Did Mr. Beast Build a $1.5 BILLION Empire, the 5 Ways to Brainstorm Business Ideas and How to Hire FAQ
- ▶ 21:26 Alex Lieberman I just want to share this one piece that I read by Paul Graham. 4 times in the scene
Fight for Your Customers
- ▶ 1:54 Alex Lieberman So this advice originated with Paul Graham, who is the founder of Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene