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Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

Next Day Video · 152.1K views · 2012-03-11 · 47:29

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Overview

Paul Graham's keynote at PyCon 2012, in which he talks about startup ideas and what kinds of companies are likely to matter in the future. He discusses ideas such as a better email client and a search engine for hackers, and argues for looking back at the present from the future.

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HN commenters return to it as a worldview-shaping talk whose predictions about technology and startup ideas turned out to be prescient.

Recommended by 7 HN people across 7 months · HN mentions 2012–2023

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rahulchhabra07 · 2019-12 · Strong recommendation

I always believed paulg was way ahead of his time. - LISP over C++/Java - The first ever web app in Viaweb - The first ever startup accelerator - Check this talk from 2012: [VIDEO] a lot of today's most impressive cos Superhuman, Lambda School, Netflix happen to emerge mysteriously from the talk as is.

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anondon · 2016-10 · Strong recommendation

[VIDEO] This was the first time I watched pg give a talk. It was the talk that brought about the biggest change in the way I think about the world, my ambitions. The talk was the beginning, reading more about pg, I came across his essays and then HN.

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vonklaus · 2015-11 · Strong recommendation

I find these stories helpful on a lot of levels, and they provide great insight into problem solving, technology, and you end up learning a large amount about why things are the way they are when people recount how they got started. E.g Anthony Casalena is young by non-tech standards and I still find it totally foreign that when he started squarespace he bought 2 physical dedicated servers and hooked them up in New York at pier 1 hosting, he needed to own the physical boxes and have 2 for redundancy. I am not doing a startup but have found these talks particular insightful generally. I am looking for some more Inspirational ones if anyone knows any great founders or leaders with inspirational stories, or particularly good interviews. Here are some I have found particularly good: [0]Ashton Kutcher, Startup School ===================== I listed this first because it is most likely to get dismissed. Give it a chance. He starts off shaky and it is really a great Meta look at how people are out of their element, but really come back, win the crowd and provide insight when it is unexpected. [1]Kevin Rose, Foundation ================= He has done 43 interviews with very prominent tech leaders for his foundation series. Some of them are Elon Musk, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Ben Horowitz, etc. [2]Paul Graham, Pycon 08' ================== This is one of the most interesting things I have seen in a long time. He makes predictions, and talks about technology climate and infrastructure. To r

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