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Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:37 unnamed speaker Uh, even Paul Graham weighed in, though, uh, reposting Monat's video and saying, I'm never buying a BMW.
Hank Green Faces AI Backlash, OpenAI Math Advances, Million-Dollar Solo Firms | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 32:26 John Coogan Let's go to this Paul Graham post. 3 times in the scene
Leopold Stays in the Game, Big Tech Earnings, OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Prices | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:47 unnamed speaker Almost kind of like there's the PG
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:06 unnamed speaker When Paul Graham started Y Combinator in Cambridge, it was like, you know, he's cooking for the startups.
Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
- ▶ 3:30 Brian Chesky I mean, really what I'm talking about has played out over like really five years and the term founder mode, what it really meant that Paul Graham wrote was about me, like skipping layers of management and going into the details with teams.
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:28 John Coogan It's the same thing as Paul Graham using the forbidden sentence structure 10 years ago. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:47 John Coogan Paul Graham wrote a whole piece about how brands are important, but just looking back in the last two years, value has clearly accrued to the infrastructure layer.
- ▶ 12:25 Jordi Hays Paul Graham shared two days ago, companies grow fast now. 2 times in the scene
The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
Nvidia Earnings, Paramount Emerges Victorious, Block Layoffs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:40 John Coogan Reflection on like, uh, do you remember his interaction with, uh, Paul Graham? 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 9:58 Alexis Ohanian And then 60 grand from an angel check from Paul Graham.
Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
- ▶ 30:31 Jordi Hays You said if you were worth, uh, somebody said, uh, if you had five million, you said, no, you agreed with PG.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 22:10 John Coogan Yeah, this was, uh, Paul Graham.
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 22:09 John Coogan Yeah, this was, uh, Paul Graham.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 22:35 John Coogan Uh, Google famously skipped the character AI product in favor of the team in their zombie aqua hire, Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 11:23 unnamed speaker Uh, Google famously skipped the character AI product in favor of the team in their zombie aqua hire, Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 1:56:58 John Coogan Then I think about Paul Graham's blog.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
What the New TARIFFS Mean for Tech | Logan Bartlett on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 32:14 Logan Bartlett Well, FedEx won a Paul Graham in the UK too.
David Senra on Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and Being a Great Founder.
- ▶ 16:30 David Senra And then this is, this, this is my issue was like, uh, remember when Paul Graham released like found the founder mode episode or a essay, so many people sent it to me. 2 times in the scene
Garry Tan talks the state of YC, the impact of AI, and the dawn of innovation.
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 14:01 Packy McCormick Cause I would see that in people's writing and it's just like, it really made me hurt, but yeah, what was the PG one, uh, delve delve, but you know, it's funny. 2 times in the scene
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 54:11 unnamed speaker They might be really just huge essays like PG is, you know, big blogger.
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 1:30:10 John Coogan Beast meets Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:01 John Coogan Um, I have a fantastic story about Cages and Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:21 John Coogan Uh, first company's going through YC, and, uh, PG comes to talk and gives this, uh, talk about, like, what red flags exist for, uh, founders of companies these days. 4 times in the scene
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 2:07 John Coogan Via web's the PG thing.
- ▶ 45:28 John Coogan They, I, I remember the moment that they peaked because, uh, Paul Graham said on Twitter at the time, what, what, it was an ape? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:49 John Coogan Uh, should we go to Paul Graham? 6 times in the scene
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 34:48 Jordi Hays I think, I think PG had this one in the bag. 2 times in the scene
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 5:02 unnamed speaker And there's a very interesting, uh, conversation in here where he says, I agree with Paul Graham on a lot of things, but I think this is a place where we just automatically channel our society's default bias. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:42 unnamed speaker And Paul Graham says, I invested more in Boom than I've ever invested in a startup before, but this company is important for America.
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 51:44 John Coogan Word grammar says, most of Peter Thiel and Paul Graham's advice is directly contradict each other.
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 1:14:06 unnamed speaker Yeah, almost more of a, like an artist than a, than a business person, but I love that, and I think some of those, I mean, it's the hackers and painters thing from PG, like, uh, creative folks.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 2:21:23 John Coogan And Paul Graham chimes in with someothername.com.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 2:49:46 John Coogan Back in like, 2014, a few people came to his aid, including Paul Graham, and, ah, that's kind of Dustin's story.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 46:48 John Coogan Uh, Andrew D'Souza says the startup industrial complex created by Paul Graham and Y Combinator is rotting the creativity and ambition of a generation of founders with a paint by numbers approach to entrepreneurship. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:25 John Coogan I mean, it's very anti-Paul Graham, who wants to just write plainly, directly, but I think there's something about creating a little bit of a barrier to get into the, the, the LP letter and enjoy it, and then you're also learning something…
- ▶ 1:36:01 John Coogan There is an interesting thing that PG often says that like the best founders have like, they're experts at like two or three different disciplines, or maybe if there's a co-founding team, they have like five or six disciplines mastered…
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 2:02:29 John Coogan He says, Paul Graham's whole life. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:16:22 unnamed speaker Yeah, naps are, um, I, I get it if you're, like, Paul Graham, and you're working on your painting career, and you're trying to get, like, a, you know, burst of energy for the afternoon, but, um,
- ▶ 2:32:53 John Coogan YC, PG wrote this post and I believe it was called Don't Die. 2 times in the scene
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 1:29:59 John Coogan There wasn't, there was a blog post by PG, and he, and he said that it was, it would be hard for a founder to be married with kids. 2 times in the scene
Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- ▶ 3:38 John Coogan Paul Graham founder mode.
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 59:41 John Coogan And then PG actually had the top reply and mentioned that he'd written about this in 2004, which is kind of funny.