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Published · transcript-backedPaul Graham: commitment
9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“I’ll investigate this summer when we’re going to go back to YC and talk to some founders, and I’ll talk to the partners, and I’ll see what’s going on, because I had a mental note to check and see if this is actually true.”
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- Paul Graham
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- commitment
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Okay, but there was Peter Thiel, there was Sequoia, there was yourself. A bunch of people knew, in fact, or strongly suspected. Sure, yes. Some people did, but certainly not everyone. I don’t know if this is true. I’ll investigate this summer when we’re going to go back to YC and talk to some founders, and I’ll talk to the partners, and I’ll see what’s going on, because I had a mental note to check and see if this is actually true. There’s a Paul Graham worldview in your earlier essays, where you want to look for the great hackers, and a lot of the most important companies come from intriguing side projects.…
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