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Paul Graham

Co-founder at Y Combinator. Mentioned in 14 episodes of Lenny’s Podcast, including the conversations with Jessica Livingston and Farhan Thawar.

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Co-founder

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Y Combinator

Mentioned In14

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Y Combinator

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Andrew Ambrosino 00:10:46
… and they used um Paul Graham's Craig, but they used him as an example saying Paul Graham clearly has great taste and wears cargo shorts, right? Like, you know, we gota we got to ...
Grant Lee 00:24:24
" And obviously ...
Dmitry Zlokazov 00:42:28
… It's a good example of Paul Graham has this concept of schlep blindness or schlepping where people want to avoid hard problems, but that's where the big opportunities are, solving real...
Nan Yu 00:34:27
" So, I think Paul Graham has a word for this. He calls it schlep blindness, right?
Drew Houston 00:06:41
" And my hypothesis was that he just hits refresh on Hacker News like everyone else. Like me, like everyone else.
Farhan Thawar 01:30:23
… Paul Graham wrote the post How to Do Great Work, and it's super long. The best part about that post is that you have to be able to read the whole thing.
Anneka Gupta 00:09:33
Well, first of all, I think Paul Graham did an amazing thing by putting a name to something so many of us have seen in practice. And while he didn't in his article say this is exactly what this is, I think many, many people that I talked…
Ben Lauzier 01:07:11
" It's basically Paul Graham's founder mode is already instilled in everyone.
Kevin Yien 00:16:36
… Obviously there's all the Paul Graham essays, I think his writing is very succinct, very clear, that's not novel. I learned a lot by finding specific voices back in the day on Twitter, an...
Mike Maples Jr.00:32:19
… so many threads I want to follow here, one is the Airbnb story. Interestingly enough, I had Jessica Livingston on the podcast recently, and you probably know this, but Paula Graham and her did not like the Airbnb idea.
Jessica Livingston 00:02:52
… to start with a quote by someone you may know, Paul Graham. So he wrote, "A few months ago an article about Y Combinator said that early on it had been a one-man show.
Eric Ries 01:00:42
… I mean, Paul Graham used to boast about that as one of the features of Y Combinator, that the founders they would get to come to the dinners would tell you the true stor...
Gustaf Alströmer 00:27:21
" And they're like, "Oh, they're in New York" and he's like, "Why are you talking to me and...
Julian Shapiro00:13:48
… So we started with the example of actually one thing that came to mind that I love is Paul Graham, who we mentioned earlier, Paul Graham from YC has his quote, which is don't start a startup where you need to go through someone else to…

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Person

Paul Graham

Role

Co-founder

Company

Y Combinator

Mentioned In14

Works At1

Y Combinator

Transcript mentions

Andrew Ambrosino 00:10:46
… and they used um Paul Graham's Craig, but they used him as an example saying Paul Graham clearly has great taste and wears cargo shorts, right? Like, you know, we gota we got to ...
Grant Lee 00:24:24
" And obviously ...
Dmitry Zlokazov 00:42:28
… It's a good example of Paul Graham has this concept of schlep blindness or schlepping where people want to avoid hard problems, but that's where the big opportunities are, solving real...
Nan Yu 00:34:27
" So, I think Paul Graham has a word for this. He calls it schlep blindness, right?
Drew Houston 00:06:41
" And my hypothesis was that he just hits refresh on Hacker News like everyone else. Like me, like everyone else.
Farhan Thawar 01:30:23
… Paul Graham wrote the post How to Do Great Work, and it's super long. The best part about that post is that you have to be able to read the whole thing.
Anneka Gupta 00:09:33
Well, first of all, I think Paul Graham did an amazing thing by putting a name to something so many of us have seen in practice. And while he didn't in his article say this is exactly what this is, I think many, many people that I talked…
Ben Lauzier 01:07:11
" It's basically Paul Graham's founder mode is already instilled in everyone.
Kevin Yien 00:16:36
… Obviously there's all the Paul Graham essays, I think his writing is very succinct, very clear, that's not novel. I learned a lot by finding specific voices back in the day on Twitter, an...
Mike Maples Jr.00:32:19
… so many threads I want to follow here, one is the Airbnb story. Interestingly enough, I had Jessica Livingston on the podcast recently, and you probably know this, but Paula Graham and her did not like the Airbnb idea.
Jessica Livingston 00:02:52
… to start with a quote by someone you may know, Paul Graham. So he wrote, "A few months ago an article about Y Combinator said that early on it had been a one-man show.
Eric Ries 01:00:42
… I mean, Paul Graham used to boast about that as one of the features of Y Combinator, that the founders they would get to come to the dinners would tell you the true stor...
Gustaf Alströmer 00:27:21
" And they're like, "Oh, they're in New York" and he's like, "Why are you talking to me and...
Julian Shapiro00:13:48
… So we started with the example of actually one thing that came to mind that I love is Paul Graham, who we mentioned earlier, Paul Graham from YC has his quote, which is don't start a startup where you need to go through someone else to…