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Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator

The Social Radars

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How to Start a Startup for the Summer

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham: "The only reason we ever did this batch format was so that we could learn how to be investors" The founders knew you shouldn't sit on the ends of the benches, he says. But there would be times when you would see an investor walking towards a bench and saying No, no. Don't sit on that. And I remember saying like, do you understand? Like, do you actually want to do this? For undergrads. These were supposed to be throwaway startups.

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