Paul Graham

“And VC is very much a manager, so it's sort of one hour scheduled meetings as opposed to kind of, you know, eight hours of getting into a flow state and thinking about a topic. So the good, the bad part is it's sort of a lot of state switching and kind of jump…”

“I really think we need to create those blocks somewhere in our day and then really stick to them. Like don't get up and leave. If, you know, if in the first hour you're having trouble because you have to sort of commit to the three hours or the four hours. And…”

“One of the things I feel like I learned from Paul was that if in 10 minutes you cannot actually understand what's going on it means the person on the other end doesn't actually understand what's going on, and there isn't anything to understand.”

“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.”

“Yeah, really lucky that I, not only was the last batch, but he announced it mid-batch, so you didn't take it for granted that you were getting this time with Paul.”

“PG himself really liked, liked and likes Flexport and was telling investors, you should invest in this company, which kind of controversial. YC partners, I think they're a little better about it now than they used to be, but they would kind of pick, choose fav…”

“He said that's like saying this other guy would be a better husband for your wife. Might be true, but like, don't act on it. Like, this is your company. You need to stay in there.”