Comments on: The F|R Interview: Y Combinator's Paul Graham http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:35:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TechStars Grades Itself – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200527 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:01:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200527 [...] Related: Notes from a conversation with Paul Graham & Found/Read Interview with Paul Graham. [...]

]]> By: omis.me » In LA, Hanging With Mr. G http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200526 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:48:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200526 [...] might be. And then off to land of Hank Moody, where I will get to meet another favorite of mine Paul Graham, one of the co-founders of YCombinator. I am interviewing him later this month at the TwiistUp conference in Los Angeles. Graham is a joy [...]

]]> By: Why Small Really Is Beautiful - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200525 Wed, 21 May 2008 04:00:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200525 [...] Box, which was spun out of Y Combinator with $18,000 in seed financing and has taken another $100,00 from undisclosed angels, currently has [...]

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200524 Sun, 11 May 2008 20:59:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200524 I’m still waiting for a Y combinator startup that actually does something useful. Paul Graham is just a big fish in a very small world. Good for him that he can pull the burlap sack over a bunch of 20-year old engineers.

The IQ comment reeks of his own lack of IQ.

]]> By: Dennis Wonica http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200523 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:32:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200523 Question: Is it fair to say that most of the funded start-ups have been WEB 2.0? Any hardware companies funded?

]]> By: Quickthink » Blog Archive » QuickNews May 5, 2008 http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200522 Mon, 05 May 2008 10:15:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200522 [...] Combinator – In the old days, business incubation was an idea that sounded great but rarely worked. Phil Graham at Y Combinator has changed that. Giga has an [...]

]]> By: Inkling Markets’ GodFather Speaks Out. | Midas Oracle .ORG http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200521 Sun, 04 May 2008 17:03:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200521 [...] his propos and applying them to Adam Siegel and Nate Kontny, you’d get [...]

]]> By: Paul Graham http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200520 Sat, 03 May 2008 16:50:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200520 The questions (and often answers) have been edited so much that the
implications of what I’m saying are often significantly different.
If anyone wants to read what I actually said, they can find it at
http://paulgraham.com/frinterview.html

]]> By: Don Jones http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200519 Sat, 03 May 2008 15:42:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200519 I wonder what Paul’s reaction would be to Umair Haque’s article, basically saying that so many startups today are solving small problems:

http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/04/an_open_challenge_to_silicon_v.html

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200518 Sat, 03 May 2008 14:05:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200518 @ Sebastian,

You are correct. That is wrong, and I have corrected that information. Apologies for posting incorrect information. Error is deeply regretted.

]]> By: Sebastian http://gigaom.com/2008/05/03/the-fr-interview-y-combinators-paul-graham/#comment-200517 Sat, 03 May 2008 10:45:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13285#comment-200517 Xobni has not yet sold, at least there’s no confirmation, just rumors. On the contrary, rumors have it that they went away from the deal.

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