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How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi) Nov 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:26 Zack Kanter Overall, it's just been like picking the philosophy, like the things that just make sense from like, I think that, you know, we wrote, wrote a blog post about this, David and James on our team wrote a blog post called do support that…

Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO) Sep 3, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 11:32 Sam Chaudhary So anyway, so, so we, we were reading Hacker News and, uh, PG's essays were just like so, uh, formative for this whole group. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:12 Sam Chaudhary I mean, look at, at some level, I think there's, there's just like a willingness to work really hard that, you know, PG had that thing about relentless resourcefulness.
  • ▶ 30:46 Sam Chaudhary Everyone's very riled up because Paul Graham was going to be there. 4 times in the scene

From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO) Aug 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:34 Abhinav Asthana I think, uh, the idea of which YC's Paul Graham alludes to is be RAM and profitable was, was very appealing. 2 times in the scene

Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury) Aug 6, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:37 Imad Akhund So, you know, I did Y Combinator in 2007 and back then it was mostly a Paul Graham show. 5 times in the scene

Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis Aug 1, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 12:04 Qasar Younis And then talk to Paul Graham at YC about it. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:42 Qasar Younis The, I mean, Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, I mean, Himal, you know, our Series B lead, Elad Gill, old friend, and Bilal, you know, maybe

Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO) Jun 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:31:46 Karri Saarinen I would say that YC and probably like Bo Graham where I think a lot of this stuff came from has been like probably the most influential things.

The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO) Feb 15, 2024 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 18:03 Amjad Masad And then Paul Graham finds Repl.it on Hacker News. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:07 Amjad Masad I mean, Paul Graham and Piotr have made these
  • ▶ 40:55 Amjad Masad You know, when we, when I first met Paul Graham, he said there's a super linear relationship with how much easier 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:14 Amjad Masad The reason Paul Graham picked the Y combinator as the name is because it's a function of all functions, right?

Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany) Dec 21, 2023 · 1 mention

AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI) Sep 14, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 22:19 Dan Siroker You know, Paul Graham talks about the best founders are relentlessly resourceful, and the things I regret most are the moments I was hapless, where I didn't fight the good fight to go with my intuition, and we ended up going down a…
  • ▶ 38:33 Dan Siroker The data of the fact that we were introduced by Paul Graham in 2010, the data of the fact that he's an investor in our company and that, you know, he just launched a new feature.
  • ▶ 57:53 Dan Siroker But like, actually, you know, Paul Graham says never meet with these people.
  • ▶ 1:01:21 Dan Siroker The most influential mentor I had was Paul Graham.
  • ▶ 1:02:21 Todd Jackson And so this, this might be a piece of advice from Paul Graham or, or anyone that you could think of, but like, what's, what's a great piece of advice, uh, that you've received that, that you've really, you know, stuck with you and that…
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