Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by btilly on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @12:55PM (#1115489)

The biggest surprise for me is that Paul claims he personally has to look the Y-combinator pattern up on Wikipedia. Though I suspect some false modesty here because he didn't want to side track the interview.

As for the rest, lots of interesting details in the general theme that I've come to expect from him. The phrase I like that sums it up is Ready! Fire! Aim! (Add appropriate discussion of tracer bullets.)

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by felideon on Thursday February 11, 2010 @09:57AM (#1117713)

I'm not sure he actually said he looked it up on Wikipedia. Just that he always had to look it up. (I'd have to re-watch it to be sure.)

The interviewer was the one who said he had read the definition on Wikipedia. Unless pg was also implying that.

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by btilly on Friday February 12, 2010 @02:54AM (#1120035)

The automated transcript said that Paul said it.

I did not listen to the presentation, so I don't know whether the automated transcript was wrong.

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