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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paul Graham comes up
This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO
- ▶ 4:02 Alina Vandenberg Some of you might have read Paul Graham's essay with Founder Mode, Brian Chesky, Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash
- ▶ 11:33 Alex Yampolskiy And look, on the CEO, on the job of a CEO, there was a good article that came out about founder mode that some people read by Paul Graham.
How To Make $30,000 Instantly off a Viral Linkedin Post
- ▶ 5:51 Renat Zubairov Remember the saying from, I think it was Paul Graham, who said like, do things with does not scale.
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
- ▶ 10:33 Chris Federspiel Uh, Paul Graham sort of says, you know, listen to your customers on what it is that they want to make.
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?
- ▶ 19:47 Nathan Berry Um, and it was really shifting from that to a direct sales model of kind of this, this Paul Graham, like do things that don't scale, do anything to get the customer, do custom development, migrate them on yourself, all that, and do these…
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy
- ▶ 20:43 Nathan Berry Um, and it was really shifting from that to a direct sales model of kind of this, this Paul Graham, like do things that don't scale, do anything to get the customer, do custom development work, migrate them on yourself, all that, and do…
How Loomly Hit 7k Customers, $4.2m SaaS Revenue Starting With An Agency
- ▶ 18:35 Thibaut Clément I mean, ah, well, you know, like everyone, I like Paul Graham and Elon Musk, not very, you know, eccentric.
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 3:42 Einar Volset Um, and it was only really during my PhD, my master's PhD that I was, I actually started listening, started reading Paul Graham's work, uh, his essays on, you know, the startups and, and, and sort of opened my eyes to this notion that, oh,…
- ▶ 9:20 Einar Volset Like, look, everybody knows who Paul Graham is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:56 Einar Volset And so part of the program's writings was a, was a big part of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:46 Einar Volset It's like we would, partly I was, it was, I think Gabor wanted to get into Y Combinator and PG has a very strong attitude that you should definitely have a co-founder.
- ▶ 27:45 Nathan Latka Paul's not gonna let us in the program unless they have an official like co-founder.
- ▶ 1:02:30 Einar Volset And it's sort of actually, to me at least, sort of a similar feeling to like PG's old essays.
- ▶ 1:09:50 Nathan Latka Well, let's like peel back one layer, you know, one layer behind you and Rob and one layer behind Sam and PG and talk about the money behind the money, right?
They Spent $100k on MVP, Now Have Customers Expanding $100/mo to $1000/mo in First year, How!?
- ▶ 14:54 Nitin Verma Uh, so it's not really a business book, but, uh, I love reading Paul Graham's essays, uh, and I always fall back upon those, uh, so Paul Graham from YC.
1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It
- ▶ 15:15 Sai Krishna Uh, maybe not CEO, but Paul Graham.
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him
- ▶ 8:20 Taro Fukuyama I remember the Paul Graham called us. 4 times in the scene
916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name
- ▶ 4:33 Fred Stevens-Smith 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. 2 times in the scene
886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet
- ▶ 7:33 Peter Reinhart And so we went and had office hours with, uh, with Paul Graham, head of Y Combinator and basically gave him the story. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:55 Peter Reinhart So we tried to, we went to Paul Graham again, and we're like, hey, this thing is working. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:32 Nathan Latka I'm curious what the advice was from Paul once you guys started taking off.
- ▶ 25:30 Nathan Latka I think Paul Graham probably said at best they went through 500 grand had nothing to show for it.
810: SaaS: With $70m Raised, White Board Videos Secret to VidYard 2x YoY Growth
- ▶ 6:22 Michael Litt It's something that Paul Graham wrote an essay about a very long time ago.
762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised
- ▶ 12:57 James Smith Paul Graham kind of popular.
EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
- ▶ 2:08 Connor Lee Well, you know, like a lot of, you know, early stage startups, you know, you got to think of them like, uh, you know, they're sort of like they're, I think with Paul Graham, he used to always talk about, um, startups as, as, uh, you know,…
EP 499: GetSignEasy Passes $200k MRR and 130k Customers To Help Sign Documents withCEO Sunil Patro
- ▶ 16:28 Sunil Patro And the other was this Paul Graham's quote, which is build something that people want.
EP 386: Hurdlr Saves You Tax Money, 10,000+ Users
- ▶ 8:59 Nathan Latka I mean, you've been able to, a lot of people will say you read Paul Graham stuff.
Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama
- ▶ 8:25 Subbu Rama 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.
This Entrepreneur Served 10 Years in The Army, You Won't Believe What Happened Next with Michael Slavin EP 237
- ▶ 20:19 Michael Slavin You know, I really don't follow CEOs closely, but in anticipation of this question, I will say I love to read Paul Graham's essays. 3 times in the scene
How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
- ▶ 17:07 Nathan Latka It's basically kind of a Paul Graham Y Combinator standard, a kind of modified convertible note for you guys to study in the show notes at nathanlatka.com forward slash the top.
The Art of Building Something From Scratch with Shahar Gilad
- ▶ 13:22 unnamed speaker And, um, I think that, uh, I don't know, Paul Graham's essays, probably one of my top favorites. 2 times in the scene