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▶ 25:33 Jason McGowan In my mind, you know, I often listen to, you know, Paul Graham, and he talks a lot about, you know, focusing on a few customers and making a product or experience really well for them, and then it will scale eventually.

▶ 42:20 Hamish McKenzie You should talk about how you're a Paul Graham fan, and that was, like, part of your inspiration for writing these essays. 2 times in the scene

▶ 21:02 Guy Raz Like the Paul Graham model and, you know, the famous founder of Y Combinator, he says he only invests in businesses that have co-founders, and there are reasons why, you know, it makes sense for many, many people because it's tough…

▶ 26:27 Guy Raz So it's interesting because it's the, Paul Graham calls it the maker versus manager dilemma, right?

▶ 7:55 Guy Raz Um, Paul Graham, famously one of the main co-founders. 5 times in the scene
▶ 12:39 Sam Altman Like it took PG a while to convince me because I really wanted to do another startup.

▶ 12:26 Guy Raz So while you were at, at building this and, and students at Yale and presumably like doing your coursework, you, um, you hear about this new thing called Y Combinator, which was headed up by Paul Graham and was one of the really kind of… 5 times in the scene
▶ 22:20 Guy Raz Were you still getting advice from Paul Graham? 8 times in the scene

▶ 24:21 Guy Raz That's right, because Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Comediar, famously says one of his criteria is a co-founder. 2 times in the scene
▶ 53:55 Brian Armstrong And that's when we kind of pinged Paul Graham

▶ 16:02 Guy Raz And, and this is like, uh, Paul Graham's thing. 7 times in the scene

▶ 1:15 Guy Raz In 2006, the influential startup investor Paul Graham wrote an essay called The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups. 2 times in the scene

▶ 8:26 Joe Gebbia A piece of advice that Paul Graham, who started Y Combinator, um, gave us and gives all the startups, which is very simple.

▶ 9:50 Alexis Ohanian No, we were the only kids in Virginia who didn't because Katie saw that Paul Graham was giving a talk. 16 times in the scene
▶ 12:04 Steve Huffman So, we got back to Virginia, and a couple days later, Alexis said to me, hey, Steve, you should send Paul an email thanking him for meeting us, and so, so I did, and he responded back. 8 times in the scene
▶ 14:27 Guy Raz So, so you go and you meet Paul, and what, what do you start doing? 4 times in the scene
▶ 17:01 Guy Raz Just to be clear, you meet Paul on spring break of 2005, so roughly March, maybe early April of 2005. 6 times in the scene
▶ 20:52 Steve Huffman Well, so Paul did that for us. 5 times in the scene
▶ 23:37 Steve Huffman It was, how do we, you know, get by every day without looking stupid in front of Paul Graham? 2 times in the scene

▶ 24:27 Joe Gebbia But they end up emailing the guy who runs it, a guy named Paul Graham, who they knew, and they say, you know, hey, Paul, there's these guys, they've got this concept, and, and they'd really benefit from being in your program. 6 times in the scene
▶ 26:47 Joe Gebbia Y Combinator was a game changer for us, and I'll never forget the first office hours that we had with Paul Graham. 7 times in the scene

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