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A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 24:43 Shaan Puri He is what Paul Graham calls a fierce nerd. 2 times in the scene
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 45:58 Shaan Puri Paul Graham wrote a blog post.
5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity Conference
- ▶ 13:19 Shaan Puri And I remember that Paul Graham once wrote this essay called Cities.
How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business
- ▶ 38:42 Isaac French Paul Graham repost, quote tweeted it.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 41:29 Shaan Puri I was reading this essay by Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
I Lost Everything Twice… Then Made $26M In 18 Months
- ▶ 48:45 Shaan Puri And Paul Graham came out. 2 times in the scene
How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 48:02 Shaan Puri Yeah, your boy's getting this Paul Graham on.
Watch These 40 Minutes To Unf*ck Your Life
25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 18:01 Jeremy Giffon Um, uh, you know, Sam Altman was this to Paul Graham.
How To Get Sh*t Done Without Being Busy
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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)
The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 4:18 Shaan Puri Do you know Paul Graham, by the way? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 Sam Parr The first thing is actually, this is from Paul Graham.
Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More
3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic
- ▶ 17:20 Shaan Puri Paul Graham, I think, calls these sitcom startup ideas.
How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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…