Paul Graham: Startups, Founders & Taste

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Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator and has written a foundational essay library for startup founders. This Skill makes his public essays and interviews searchable across startup ideas, users, growth, fundraising, ambition, work, judgment, and taste while preserving their historical context.

paul-grahamstartupsfoundersstartup-ideasuser-researchgrowthfundraisingproduct-tasteambitiongreat-work

Example questions

→Help me choose a startup idea from problems I understand personally.

→How should I test whether a real user problem is worth building for?

→What should an early founder do before hiring or raising?

→How do I get useful signal from my first ten users?

→How can manual work help me discover the right product process?

→What does default alive mean for my startup runway?

Related Skills

Sources

54 web pages, 2 podcasts

What You'll Wish You'd Knownpaulgraham.com How to Get Startup Ideaspaulgraham.com The Anatomy of Determinationpaulgraham.com Earnestnesspaulgraham.com Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedulepaulgraham.com Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?paulgraham.com

Update history

Skill details refreshed · 8/18/2026

The title, description, or cover was improved.

Initial release · 8/17/2026

First published on Ravenza.