Paul Graham

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· Projects

Things Paul is building

6 projects — each one is a separate landing page, links out below.

◆ Featured project

Y Combinator

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.

ycombinator.com

How to Do Great Work

Hacker News

Arc / Bel (Lisp dialects)

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.

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Three takes, same source

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ArticleTalkHistory

The Paul Wiki

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VOL. ISaturday

The Cambridge Chronicle

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🔥 Roast

Roast Paul

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