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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paul Graham comes up
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 1:46 Shane Parrish Paul Graham's response to Ryan's decision cut deep.
- ▶ 17:40 Ryan Petersen PG used to cook it, I think. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 Ryan Petersen PG himself really liked, liked and likes Flexport and was telling investors, you should invest in this company, which kind of controversial. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:34 Shane Parrish What are some of the lessons that you learned from Paul Graham that still resonate with you today? 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 Shane Parrish What happened when you told PG you were stepping down? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:31 Ryan Petersen Uh, PG wrote about that in his founder mode thing.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:23:06 Harley Finkelstein Years ago, someone sent me the Paul Graham makers versus managers time. 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 2:43 Garry Tan I guess I can't talk about YC without talking about Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Garry Tan You know, one of the things I feel like I learned from Paul Graham interviewing alongside him so many years was that sometimes I'd go through and this person would come in, they had an incredible resume, you know, they're like had a PhD or… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 Garry Tan It's sort of remarkable how often, um, high school and family and, uh, you know, the 10,000 hours of human training people get from their childhoods comes up in Paul Graham's essays.
- ▶ 33:12 Garry Tan When Paul and Jessica created YC for my, I, I went through the program myself in 2008, and, ah, I came out transformed, and then that's very explicitly what I want to happen for people, um, who go through the batch today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:43 Garry Tan We brought Paul and Jessica back from England, and, um, we had this one talk that wasn't even on the agenda, but I managed to text, um, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, and I got him to come and speak, um, very openly and honestly in front of
- ▶ 2:03:33 Shane Parrish What, what are some of the lessons that you learned from Paul Graham that you sort of apply or try to keep in mind all the time? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15:46 Garry Tan You know, actually, this is actually when Paul Graham, uh, came to recruit me to come back to YC, I had actually left and started my own VC firm, uh, you know, got to three billion dollars under management, like in the end. 3 times in the scene