Paul Graham
9 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 28, 2010 by Brian Chesky · said 77 times in 9 episodes since 2010 · across every show →
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brought up most by Andrew Warner (34), Steve Huffman (19), Seth Godin (7), Brian Chesky (7), Jessica Livingston (6), Garry Tan (3), Ryan Carson (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2014 6 mentions in 1 episode
2010 64 mentions in 3 episodes 21 per episode
- #216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe
- #400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman
- #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
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Jan 28, 2010 positive
Chesky: Founders with existing products get the most value from YC
“My advice is for people to have already kind of figured out, like, so they already have something going. They've already kind of struggled through an idea and figured it out. I think those are the people that are at the best advantage. And then Paul Graham can…”
Jan 28, 2010 positive
Chesky: Paul Graham doubted Airbnb's idea but praised founders' resourcefulness
“It, the long story short is we ended up getting in Y Combinator, and I remember on the interview, he brought the cereal, and, you know, Paul Graham said, I remember him saying, like, he wasn't entirely sure of the idea. He said, well, it sounds different, but …”
Jan 28, 2010 positive
Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Huffman: Paul Graham asked Reddit to build Hacker News first
“Paul, Paul had approached us before building Hacker News and said, Hey, can you guys make me my own Reddit where people can only upvote and I can have like supreme control over the content? And then we were like, no, that's not, You know, that's not really on …”
Oct 20, 2010
Oct 20, 2010 positive
Huffman: Paul Graham is an exceptional product thinker lacking social filters
“Paul is, I think he's an exceptionally good product guy. He has a really good eye for what's useful and what isn't. And he's also completely stateless and has no social filter. So it helps that you can go to this guy who will just be like, this is stupid. And …”
Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Huffman: Paul Graham insisted early Reddit cram content into the upper-left
“So one of the things he told us very early on, if I don't even think we had launched anything, maybe we had shown him some screenshots, was he insisted that we put as much content in the upper left of the page as possible.”
Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Apr 9, 2014 positive
Livingston remains fully engaged at Y Combinator as Sam Altman assumes leadership
“Ah, a lot of people ask me that, even though my name was not in the announcement as taking a step back. But no, I'm just as engaged as I've always been, and in fact, ah, with Sam on board doing a lot of the administrative things that I Used to do. I'm excited …”