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▶ 4:53 · $OPENAI · Paul Graham Live from Y Combinator
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Y Combinator

Paul Graham Live from Y Combinator

2026-09-03 · 1 company · 3 thematic
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Paul Graham is the co-founder of Y Combinator, the seminal startup accelerator. In this talk from Stockholm, he argues that ambitious founders should spend time in Silicon Valley to absorb its talent density, investor speed, and pay-it-forward culture, and that governments should sponsor such trips to build local startup hubs.

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“And it was incubated at YC... I realized very early on like after using OpenAI like whoa, I don't use Google anymore. I don't use searches that what I really wanted from searches was not web pages. I wanted information. Why not just ask th…”
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