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A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand Sep 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:22 Shaan Puri It's a, I don't know if you've read, have you read Founder Mode, the sort of Paul Graham blog post?

The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of Jan 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything. Nov 12, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:22 Sam Parr Paul Graham's got this amazing article on procrastination that kind of changed my life. 3 times in the scene

How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B Oct 13, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 53:36 Shaan Puri like, you know, Elon, or, you know, you guys were pre-YC, so like, you know, Paul Graham, Sam Albin, whoever, the players who have gone on to do, like, really interesting things, Zuck, early on, you know, um, 4 times in the scene

How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing Sep 19, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:51 Shaan Puri There's a whole industry now that specializes in that category, but it really started, even Paul has said this as an experiment. 3 times in the scene

Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000 May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:54 Jess Mah And, you know, Paul Graham, even he was my mentor and he's like, you're going to be one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time.

The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors Jan 16, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 17:26 Shaan Puri And, um, Paul Graham basically calls us the Ronco principle. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:26 Shaan Puri If you can go get a Sequoia because program asked him, they go, he goes, you know, when you invest in Google, did you know, like, this is a huge company. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:00:44 Shaan Puri Paul Graham asked Ron Conway, he goes, uh, you could do this now for, like, you know, you were a founder, and now you've,

The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:20 Shaan Puri So, you know, for example, um, and you, and you can frame these different ways, but, um, I have a friend who was like, you know how Paul Graham talks about, he wants to invest in fierce nerds, and a fierce nerd is basically, it's a nerd…

Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom Nov 11, 2024 · 20 mentions

  • ▶ 4:57 Shaan Puri What, what is Paul Graham's word for this schlep, schlep blindness, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:09 Shaan Puri Paul has a good quote about you. 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:33 Ryan Petersen I actually found it on Paul Graham's website. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:17 Shaan Puri I think back to my question about why Paul Graham called you, you know, an armor piercing shell who just, you know, who figures things out.

I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company Nov 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:58 Shaan Puri So like, right around the same time that Paul Graham put Founder Mode out there, and everyone's like, oh, Founder Mode, like, but wait, what is it exactly?

The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire Oct 10, 2024 · 1 mention

5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity Conference Oct 4, 2024 · 1 mention

How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business Sep 20, 2024 · 1 mention

10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024 Sep 13, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:48 Shaan Puri So early on, he was really loved on Hacker News, not him, but like Replit was really loved, because it was like, kind of cool that you could do this, and it actually worked really well, because he's, you know, a great programmer, and one… 5 times in the scene

The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet Aug 31, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 3:06 George Mack And this most similar concept that I've seen online is, have you seen Paul Graham's relentlessly resourceful? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:31 Shaan Puri I think Paul Graham had said, like, you know, the five most

Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good Aug 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

I Lost Everything Twice… Then Made $26M In 18 Months Aug 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder Jul 8, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 13:43 Shaan Puri One of the stories I love about Stripe comes from Paul Graham. 8 times in the scene

Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman Jun 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:48 Shaan Puri And also if you read Paul Graham's essay, one of the things Paul Graham advises heavily against is the, what he calls playing startup. 2 times in the scene

3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs Jun 21, 2024 · 1 mention

Watch These 40 Minutes To Unf*ck Your Life Jun 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:50 Sam Parr It's basically like Paul Graham, but more a little bit, uh, a little bit more hot headed.

25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried) Jun 5, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 45:44 Jason Fried I was, but, uh, Paul was kind enough to ask me to come up on stage and give a talk. 3 times in the scene

How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell May 24, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 58:34 Shaan Puri You've read, like, Paul Graham wrote this essay, um, Great Work. 6 times in the scene

Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1 Apr 17, 2024 · 1 mention

How To Get Sh*t Done Without Being Busy Apr 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:05 Shaan Puri So if you've ever read the Paul Graham post maker versus manager schedule, it's a kind of must read for anybody who wants to build shit.

Get LASER FOCUSED for 2024 (in 18 minutes) Mar 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:22 Shaan Puri You may have seen this as a famous Paul Graham essay that I've turned into a cartoon, and the Paul Graham essay is basically, uh, showing the difference between a maker, uh, uh,

From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526) Dec 4, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Shaan Puri Uh, you know, Paul Graham, when, when he met her 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:30 Shaan Puri Um, because I remember reading Paul Graham's essays like 10 years ago where he's like, 5 times in the scene

Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507) Oct 13, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 30:22 Sam Parr And then Paul Graham just effed off and lives in England, now in the woods, writing poetry and playing Frisbee with his kids. 3 times in the scene

The 2022 Milly Awards (#401) Dec 29, 2022 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 27:00 Shaan Puri Okay, so, Paul Graham is gonna win my award here for calling, the call your shot moment. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:11 Sam Parr Paul Graham. 6 times in the scene

How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah Jul 12, 2022 · 4 mentions

Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More Nov 5, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:40 Sam Parr I call it being an animal and like Paul Graham, or he's the one who said he was basically, he's like a lot of people talk about who you should hire in your early stage startups. 2 times in the scene

3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic Oct 8, 2021 · 1 mention

How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221 Sep 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:21 Sam Parr And it was by Jessica Livingston, the woman who started Y Combinator with Paul Graham, their husband and wife.

12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220 Sep 17, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 22:04 Shaan Puri Second time I heard about it was from Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene

The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro Aug 25, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 32:49 Julian Shapiro And like you think of Paul Graham, like this, you know, the, the writer, guru, YC founder that everyone looks up to, you know, in a million years, you would never expect them to have like a, like a banner ad at the bottom of a blog post he…
  • ▶ 39:21 Julian Shapiro And when I was going through like all the content creators that I see the most love profess for like, wait, but why, or Paul Graham, who I mentioned earlier, everyday astronaut. 3 times in the scene

The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199 Jul 14, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 30:32 Shaan Puri I remember Paul Graham had once said something, and Paul Graham's obviously a fan, fan of Sam Altman, because he, Paul Graham started Y Combinator, and then he put Sam Altman in charge of it, 3 times in the scene

Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 May 5, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04:39 Balaji Srinivasan Learned that you need, you know, Maritz talks about this half-jokingly as, you know, every app needs one of the seven deadly sins, you know, like lust, greed, sloth, gluttony, wrath, pride, uh, I forget the other ones, right?
  • ▶ 1:44:37 Balaji Srinivasan All the good stuff comes out of Twitter, and all the bad stuff is just, it's actually, Paul Graham had a good comment on this, where it's like, the terms are so large that you can't even initially sum them to see, like, whether it's…

How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173 Apr 21, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:51 Shaan Puri It's, you know, started by Paul Graham, and it's sort of baked into Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene

Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020 Mar 12, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:09 Shaan Puri If you're an investor, if you're one of your companies stop sending their updates for a bit, uh, that company is about to die or they're on their way to dying and they go into a shell and Paul Graham has this great post, which is just…
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