Paul Graham
Founder of Y Combinator
1964 — Present
Y Combinator
The Hacker Philosopher. Founder of Y Combinator, and architect of modern startup culture. Essays on technology, power, and first principles thinking.
Highlights
Selected wisdom from 21 entries
“The way to succeed in a startup is not to be an expert on startups, but to be an expert on your users and the problem you're solving for them.”
“To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.”