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▶ 18:53 unnamed speaker Like, I'm not, like, one of these, like, Silicon Valley kids who, like, watched every Paul Graham video.

▶ 34:55 Riley Brown Paul Graham has this essay from way back a long time ago where like good programmers are sketching.

▶ 12:42 unnamed speaker If, you know, like, you're following me on Twitter, or Paul Graham's following me on Twitter, or, like, Elon Musk is following me on Twitter.
▶ 44:04 unnamed speaker You know, we don't need to, like, go do a teardown of Paul Graham's, like, latest essay, or whatever. 2 times in the scene

▶ 17:38 Julien Smith In general, it's like, you know, I always think about this, this Paul Graham thing about like a city is telling you something.

▶ 41:18 Greg Isenberg Um, at the time when you were trying to do it, there was a, I think it's Paul Graham has this kind of framework that, that I love, which is like, if someone tells you, um, something that sounds like a crazy idea, you ask two questions.

▶ 19:17 Alexis Ohanian So I had pitched Paul Graham at the end of a talk that he gave at, at Harvard, um, had gone up during senior spring break, uh, with my co-founder and, and after this talk, Paul, and he, he posted online, it's called How to Start a Startup. 10 times in the scene
▶ 24:56 Alexis Ohanian Um, but that was enough to sort of get things started, and then a Paul Graham essay helped launch us a month later.
▶ 31:17 Greg Isenberg And actually PG responded too. 6 times in the scene
▶ 1:28:30 Sahil Bloom I mean, it's really messy, and it's like the, um, you know, it's like the Paul Graham, like, do things that don't scale early on, and, um, that's the messy part of it, and I also just think most of the people that try to do this stuff are…

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