Paul Graham

“Altman, who Paul Graham famously anointed the inevitable king of the cannibals...”

“Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham is tired of AI-generated emails from founders.”

“The talent pool expands in two dimensions. The people are better and there's also a lot more of them. And on top of that, they tend to cluster in certain places. And so the resulting concentration of talent is, I mean, it's really intoxicating.”

“YC is deliberately designed to concentrate all the things that are distinctive about Silicon Valley. It's like a little super valley within the valley... If the Swedish government designed a program to help Swedish founders experience Silicon Valley, they couldn't do better than this. And it doesn't even cost them anything because it's funded by Silicon Valley investors.”

“He's an illustration both of that you can do it, but what you'd have to do in order to do it, right?”

“Paul Graham — Quoted as describing his role at YC as 'trying hard to prevent assholes from getting funded'”