Thanks for your email. I'm confident that most readers will understand that the line was tongue in cheek, however. The idea that a co-founder of Y Combinator could be persuaded to part with seed funding simply by dint of the solicitor's wearing a hooded sweatshirt is, of course, preposterous. At any rate, there is nothing to "correct," so to speak, as Mr. Graham did in fact say those words.
Not surprisingly I disagree with his assertion, but apparently he won't change the article or issue a correction.
Things like this explain why public figures have to be canny when dealing with the press: the desire to willfully misinterpret is strong, and, even when pointed out, often isn't corrected.
You can't just ["]Abuse drugs and alcohol when you're young["] and think it won't catch up with you
“I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg,” Paul Graham, co-founder of the seed investor Y Combinator, once said.
Graham already pointed out that this is a joke and that the quote was taken out of context: http://www.paulgraham.com/tricked.html