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· Projects
6 projects — each one is a separate landing page, links out below.
◆ Featured project
Seed accelerator co-founded with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell in 2005. Funded Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Reddit, Coinbase, Doordash, Twitch, ~5,000 startups. The default for early founders.
Founder Mode
2024 essay arguing that the standard 'hire good people and trust them' advice works only for a narrow set of 'good people' and that founders should stay involved deeper than they are told to. Coined a phrase that escaped the essay.
Viaweb (acquired by Yahoo!)
One of the first web applications: an online store builder. Acquired by Yahoo! in 1998 for ~$50M and became Yahoo! Store. Most of the early YC playbook was the Viaweb playbook, written down.
· AI surfaces
Each card is the actual opening of a full AI-written page about Paul. Click in.
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