Paul Graham (PG) is one of the most prominent figures in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial community, and his reputation is well-deserved. He's an honest leader, a talented computer scientist, and has an uncanny passion for entrepreneurship. Most importantly, he’s an entrepreneur himself.
The first time I met PG was in the summer of 2010, when my co-founder and I were selected to participate in Y Combinator (YC), the startup accelerator program PG founded that helped to create many successful companies, including Reddit (acquired by Conde Naste), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga). He’s known to be extremely particular about teams over ideas and, despite what you might think, is often pushing teams to radically change their ideas. In fact, we did exactly that almost immediately after starting YC.
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