Paul Graham
Co-founder · Y Combinator
Check $125K–$500KPRE SEEDSEED
AIDevtoolsConsumerSaaS
Quick profile
Investment thesis
Make something people want. Default alive. Work on things that scale. Founders should be relentlessly resourceful, suspicious of complexity, and obsessed with users.
Communication style
Curious, essay-like, will ask the same question three different ways to see if the answer changes.
Red flags
Founder obsesses over funding instead of usersTAM talk before any actual users existTreats customers as 'the market' rather than peopleDoesn't know what they don't know
Signature questions
1.What do you know that nobody else does?Show me your growth chart and walk me through the last spike.
Fund facts
StripeAirbnbRedditDropboxInstacart
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