Paul Graham

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 13, 2016 by Subbu Rama · said 48 times in 23 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Einar Volset (8), Peter Reinhart (7), Nathan Latka (6), Taro Fukuyama (4), Michael Slavin (3), Nathan Berry (2), Fred Stevens-Smith (2), Alina Vandenberg (2)

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2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO Feb 18, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 4:02
3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash Jan 7, 2025 · 1 mention · from 11:33
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode

How To Make $30,000 Instantly off a Viral Linkedin Post Jan 4, 2024 · 1 mention · from 5:51
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode

Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue Apr 28, 2023 · 1 mention · from 10:33
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2021 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode

ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation? Jul 6, 2021 · 1 mention · from 19:47
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People May 4, 2021 · 1 mention · from 8:08
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy Apr 7, 2021 · 1 mention · from 20:43
How Loomly Hit 7k Customers, $4.2m SaaS Revenue Starting With An Agency Feb 6, 2021 · 1 mention · from 18:35
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2020 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode

Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works Jun 10, 2020 · 10 mentions · from 3:42
They Spent $100k on MVP, Now Have Customers Expanding $100/mo to $1000/mo in First year, How!? Jun 7, 2020 · 1 mention · from 14:54
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2019 1 mention in 1 episode

1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It Dec 12, 2019 · 1 mention · from 15:15
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2018 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him Feb 25, 2018 · 4 mentions · from 8:20
916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name Jan 26, 2018 · 2 mentions · from 4:33
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2017 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode

886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet Dec 27, 2017 · 9 mentions · from 7:33
810: SaaS: With $70m Raised, White Board Videos Secret to VidYard 2x YoY Growth Oct 12, 2017 · 1 mention · from 6:22
762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised Aug 25, 2017 · 1 mention · from 12:57
EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee Jan 17, 2017 · 1 mention · from 2:08
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2016 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode

This Entrepreneur Served 10 Years in The Army, You Won't Believe What Happened Next with Michael Slavin EP 237 Apr 15, 2016 · 3 mentions · from 20:19
The Art of Building Something From Scratch with Shahar Gilad Mar 3, 2016 · 2 mentions · from 13:22
EP 499: GetSignEasy Passes $200k MRR and 130k Customers To Help Sign Documents withCEO Sunil Patro Dec 5, 2016 · 1 mention · from 16:28
EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users Aug 14, 2016 · 1 mention · from 8:59
Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 · 1 mention · from 8:25
How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith Mar 6, 2016 · 1 mention · from 17:07
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Everything said about Paul Graham, oldest first

Jun 13, 2016 positive

Disclosure

Rama: Bitfusion raised its seed round using free YC SAFE templates

“We just went online, downloaded what Paul Graham had, printed it, didn't, you know, didn't have to spend any big money on lawyers.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 8:25 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Jan 26, 2018 negative

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Paul Graham called Rainforest QA the worst company name in YC history

“Paul Graham, who is the famous founder of YC, announced on stage one week that we had the worst name ever to go through YC.”

Fred Stevens-Smith Jan 26, 2018 ▶ 4:33 916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name

Feb 18, 2025 negative

Insight

Alina Vandenberg says the traditional advice to hire senior leaders fails

“So what he's referring to by Founder Mode is that we're told that we can run our company by hiring great people and get outside of their way. Senior, great people. That sounds lovely in theory, in practice, because we're founders and we're very particular abou…”

Alina Vandenberg Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 4:10 This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO

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