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$0 to $100M ARR Fast. How Gamma Scaled Quickly without a Sales Team Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:06 Grant Lee We got Paul Graham to respond, throwing a little shade at us and the tweet ended up going viral.

The RevOps Playbook: Owner.com CRO’s Secrets to Scaling Jan 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:22 Kyle Norton Kyle, you sound like the business school douchebag that Paul Graham told me to be wary of, and this doesn't sound like founder mode.

The Secrets to Selling and Scaling in Vertical SaaS with Slice's CRO Oct 8, 2024 · 1 mention

How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin Sep 19, 2024 · 4 mentions

10 Cheat Codes I Learned While Scaling to $400M with Yext and Roam Founder Howard Lerman Aug 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:35 Howard Lerman And I got up there, just like an environment like this, and there was like, a thousand people or whatever, and Marc Andreessen was here, and Marissa Meyer was there, and Paul Graham was on the stage, they were the judges, and I got up and…

Todd McKinnon CEO of Okta: Top 10 Learnings Building a High Performance Organization (Updated) Apr 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:07 Todd McKinnon And then what happened over time is that we got enough customers that then people would come to us and use our APIs to integrate to our platform, which is, so I think the lesson there is I think Paul Graham talks about doing things that…

Lessons Learned from 9 Years at Heap with Advisor & Former CTO Dan Robinson May 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:04 Dan Robinson Um, Paul Graham has a great article or a great essay, if you haven't read it, I would definitely check it out, called Do Things That Don't Scale.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Roam | Founder-led Sales Apr 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:55 Howard Lerman Well, let me just take a step back and say that the first customer for Rome was myself, and I think that one of the really, really most important things that any founder can do, and I've seen Paul Graham say this a bunch of times, the…

CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman Jan 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:54 Ben Braverman Like, Paul Graham had already identified Ryan and Flexport as a breakout from YC before he went into YC, and you know that because he got called on stage at startup school by Paul before he was officially accepted into YC. 2 times in the scene

5 Critical & Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups | Y Combinator MD Anu Hariharan Sep 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:58 Anu Hariharan If you are not familiar with this term, I highly recommend that you read Paul Grant's blog post.

Flexport: How to Build a Truly Global Business From Day One with CEO Ryan Petersen May 27, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:48 Ryan Petersen And because during that time I was guilty of what Paul Graham, who's the founder of Y Combinator, Flexport's first investor, he calls this schlep blindness. 4 times in the scene

Going from $0 to $60M ARR in 4 Years with Podium CEO Eric Rea | SaaStr Software Community Sep 18, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:10 Eric Rea But luckily we had heard of Paul Graham and Y Combinator, so we read all of their essays before we decided to invest 750 dollars each into Podium, which was actually the only money we ever put into the company.
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