Paul Graham

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Computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Vi...

Computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News. He is the author of several computer programming books, including: On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".

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Startup = Growth
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*Description from Goodreads:* “The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you’re willing to risk the consequences.” —from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age,
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I read @yishan's thread about Twitter and agree, as I think anyone who's run a forum would, that Elon is "in for a world of pain," or at least for a type of pain both much nastier than hard engineering problems, and with far less upside as well.
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The Four Quadrants of Conformism
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The Refragmentation
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
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Cities and Ambition
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How to Disagree
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Paul Graham's Blog
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Paul Graham, besides being an entrepreneur & investor, is among today's most widely admired essayists. What makes his writing so great? Here are some clues.
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The Lesson to Unlearn
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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
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YC Partner Geoff Ralston talks with Paul Graham, one of the founders of YC, and tries to draw out as much startup wisdom as possible in an hour of conversation. Transcript can be found here: https://bit.ly/2PrEiTw Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org
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The Ronco Principle
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Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Paul-graham-lecture-3-counterintuitive-parts-of-startups-and-how-to-have-ideas-annotated Paul Graham delivers an informative (and highly amusing) talk, addressing counterintuitive parts of startups, in Lecture 3 of How to Start a Startup. See the read
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How to Raise Money
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How to Convince Investors
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