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Published · transcript-backedPaul Graham: evaluation
9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“This sounds very arrogant, but I realized this with Y Combinator. I realized that Y Combinator had become famous long after it had become famous.”
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- Paul Graham
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Are you past the optimal? I don’t know. That’s the thing. This sounds very arrogant, but I realized this with Y Combinator. I realized that Y Combinator had become famous long after it had become famous. As far as I was concerned, I was just doing what we’d always been doing. Every six months, we would get all these applications. We’d have to find the needle in the haystack, [laughs] get all these start-ups, help them grow, find investors for them, and then it would start again. It didn’t seem like YC was any different. It was the same building, the same people. We would get more start-ups. Meanwhile, YC was starting to be considered as this giant gatekeeper for Silicon Valley or something like that. But Jessica knew it was different, right?…
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