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The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator Feb 21, 2026 · 1 mention

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:09 Harj Taggar Being intellectually honest, as one of our, sort of, colleagues, Paul Buhayt, pointed this out, where it's, there's a sort of a flaw in the logic, potentially. 2 times in the scene

Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator Jun 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator Mar 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:22 Garry Tan What was it like to interview at YC, get in, and then I know Paul Bucay did a lot of work with you, actually. 3 times in the scene

How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:34 David Lieb I think the true story is, uh, YC partner Paul Buchheit, he was just annoyed by it, and he's like, someone should build that.

How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:41 Harj Taggar And like, we, we had Paul Buhite, the founder of Gmail, early Google employee in the interview, just like hammering on Spencer saying like, Google, this Google is so great at this.

The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator Feb 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:31 Harj Taggar I know one of our partners, Paul Buhite, is quite worried about this actually. 2 times in the scene

Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator Apr 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:35 Diana Hu Now, principle number two, there's this famous create-ninety-ten solution that was coined by Paul Bukait, who was one of the group partners here at YC, an original inventor of Gmail.

The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator Feb 9, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:53 Kat Mignalek Paul Buchheit, he's the creator of Gmail and a longtime YC group partner. 2 times in the scene

How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:43 Gustaf Alströmer So early days of Gmail, users were asking, um, Paul Buchheit, the founder of Gmail, to view both the inbox and the actual email that they were reading on the same screen.

Should You Start A Startup? | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:59 Harj Taggar To judge how promising your side project is as a startup idea, I'd use some advice from my Y Combinator partner, Paul Buhay. 2 times in the scene

Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:46 Dalton Caldwell And as we spoke about in a prior video, our, our friend and colleague, Paul Buhite, you know, number 18 at Google, 2 times in the scene

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 16, 2022 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:51 Michael Seibel Now, Dalton, probably the master of this, um, is the person we work with, a guy named Paul Buhite, who enfrented this term, the ninety-ten solution. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:08 Dalton Caldwell And so their hack was the nine intent solution, like PB use for Gmail, which is like, just don't do it.

Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator Dec 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:20 Craig Cannon How do you, cause I know the, the story with PB creating Gmail is just like a one guy goof.

Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:44 Kevin Hale YC was 18,000 dollars then, and we raised, uh, money from two angels, PB and PG, and it was 50,000 dollars each.

Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator Dec 14, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:32 Kalam Dennis I think the key for us really getting a lot out of YC is that every week we, our partners were, um, Paul Bukay, Kevin Hale.

After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Following on, ah, from Paul's talk about some of the ways to think about becoming, or what it takes to become, or whether you might believe you might become a hundred billion dollar business, ah, I am going to have a conversation with… 2 times in the scene

Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 36:07 Mathilde Collin So for example, uh, PB, uh, who created Gmail was, uh, is one of the partners at YC. 5 times in the scene

David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 2 mentions

A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Sep 1, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09 Geoff Ralston Paul Buchheit, who, who actually has more of a claim on, uh, actually writing, uh, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:45 Geoff Ralston But if you, you know, Paul Buchheit always says if you have 10 people who really love your product,

Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator Aug 29, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:22 Sam Altman Paul Buhite once, uh, spent a bunch of time looking, one of the YC partners, uh, spent a bunch of time looking at the traits of our best founders and tried to distill down what they were. 2 times in the scene

Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:04 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, most importantly, I mean, the students didn't have cash, there was a lot of scheduling, and I think one of the things that YC stress us on the most, I wish we had actually done YC at that point, I think this was done by Paul Bouquet,…
  • ▶ 14:15 Vivek Ravisankar It was PG, Sam, Harge, Jessica, and Paul Bouquet.
  • ▶ 34:57 Vivek Ravisankar I think that's how Gmail was born, uh, where I think Paul Bouquet worked on his 20% free time, uh, to build Gmail.

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Geoff Ralston Ah, then PB came and gave his always PB like perspective on, on things. 3 times in the scene

Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:19 Dalton Caldwell PB's about to talk, and like, you know, a lot of the investments that he made in 2008, 2007 are still hanging out there.

Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:28 Michael Seibel Um, and then one thing that, um, PB said that I can't say enough, um, the most hyped investment on Demo Day is often not the best one.
  • ▶ 13:59 Michael Seibel Paul Buhite, he basically threw a piece of advice as the reason why we built a video system, which is the reason why Justin TV could exist, which is the reason why Twitch could exist.
  • ▶ 16:10 Michael Seibel Let's say probably two things, and, um, PB covered one of them.

Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 1 mention

Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:08 Sam Altman Um, Paul Buhite, one of our partners, made a list of the four traits that he thought founders that go on to create giant companies have, and they are obsession, focus, frugality, and love. 2 times in the scene

Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:49 Kat Manalac You know, there's YC partner, Paul Bukite, always says you should focus on building a product that a hundred people love versus a product that a thousand users just think is okay.

Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:42 Kalam Dennis And as PB mentioned, we are the founders of Apartment Deco. 2 times in the scene
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