A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it for specific Graham remarks, such as advice to find a paying customer and a recent interview about Viaweb.
What it is
Y Combinator's Geoff Ralston interviews Paul Graham about startups and founders in a Startup School conversation. It touches on Viaweb, Robert Morris and what makes founders effective.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sirodoht · 2018-10 · on “Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others”
Here is a (recent) very interesting interview with PG, among others, talking about Viaweb. Bonus points: very funny. [this video]
Cites colecut · 2018-09 · on “A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]”
[this video] He doesn't sound sorry =p But if he really did "choose" the other guys, then maybe calling him the founder isn't so wrong.
Cites dennisgorelik · 2018-09 · on “A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]”
[this video] --- And we got him an earring. There are photographs on the Internet of Robert Morris with an earring. --- I could not find such photographs ... [LINK]
Cites aacook · 2018-10 · on “Ask HN: What are you currently working on in your spare time?”
Thank you for the mention. My quantum-of-one [0] was my late 94-year-old grandfather [1]. My brother and I gave NanaGram to him for his birthday. (Well, really it was a quantum of two because my grandmother also loves getting photos in the mail.) I got married this past June and at the wedding shower my Mom gave my wife lingerie while chanting "4 kids! 4 kids! 4 kids!" As you can probably tell, my Mom has 4 kids. My initial use case was "I want to send curated 4x6 prints from my 3 siblings and I to my grandparents." Most people using NanaGram send photos to their loved ones but we do have some folks sending photos to themselves. @trykondev FYI your title tag is "Mysite." This is a super fun
Cites shreyas-satish · 2020-07 · on “How to Start a Business?”
Find a customer. If you can find one customer who has a pain point that is strong enough for which they are willing to pay $$ and even tolerate a sub-standard product/service, you're probably on to something. This is also what PG advises [0]. I've been bootstrapping my startup, I landed a fairly well-known startup as a client which is helping a great deal. Delivering a good quality service gave me capital and credibility to now parlay for future business. [0] [this video]
Cites sirodoht · 2020-10 · on “YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet”
It feels like YC is the mainstream thing nowadays, the traditional school of startupery. But startup founders and hackers like the naughty [0] things, not the established. [0]: [this video]