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▶ 17:35 · $Y-COMBINATOR · Graham: YC is the optimal vehicle for founders to absorb Silicon Valley advantages in 4-6 months
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Y Combinator

Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm

2026-05-13 · 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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“Surely the optimal way to go to Silicon Valley for a bit and then come back is to do YC. 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…”
—paul graham
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Graham: YC is the optimal vehicle for founders to absorb Silicon Valley advantages in 4-6 months
YC deliberately concentrates Silicon Valley's distinctive advantages—extreme founder density, instant committed peers, accelerated investor decision speed, and codified help cultu…