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# ![@paulg Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::183749519.png) @paulg Paul Graham

Paul Graham, a prominent entrepreneur and investor, has been sharing his insights on various topics, including startups, economics, and artificial intelligence. He recently emphasized the importance of founders being mindful of their company's growth, suggesting that staying small for as long as possible can be beneficial. Graham also discussed the potential of AI in coding, citing its ability to improve efficiency, and touched on other topics such as the challenges of measuring performance in organizations.

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[money](/topic/money) 3.42%, [insurance](/topic/insurance) #1015, [momentum](/topic/momentum) #287, [market cap](/topic/market-cap) 1.37%, [all the](/topic/all-the) 0.68%, [luxury](/topic/luxury) 0.68%, [the original](/topic/the-original) 0.68%, [work for](/topic/work-for) 0.68%, [gdp growth](/topic/gdp-growth) 0.68%, [shell](/topic/shell) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Later we'll find it hard to believe that masked thugs were dragging people off the street at gunpoint. At least I hope we will since the other alternative would be to decline into the kind of country where that's normal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975531833652846641) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-07T12:01Z 2.1M followers, 2.7M engagements


"I'm reading Thomson's History of Chemistry written in 1830 and it's all the more interesting because they're still just beginning to figure things out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976764683416985670) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T21:40Z 2.1M followers, 90.3K engagements


"Organizations that can't measure performance end up measuring performativeness instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1973617644495577459) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-02T05:14Z 2.1M followers, 415.6K engagements


"Pictures of quinces by John Aldridge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977738852400779532) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:11Z 2.1M followers, 41.4K engagements


"The pitch of populist demagogues is always "The country is going to hell and only I can save it." So one of the best ways to undermine them is to publish evidence that things are getting better not worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978429938500784208) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T11:57Z 2.1M followers, 146.2K engagements


"This is common among the most successful startups. It may seem wasteful but it's a good idea to have some extra money in the bank as insurance against disasters and the most successful startups have that luxury"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979101402346512506) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T08:25Z 2.1M followers, 473.1K engagements


"Bold leadership from Alexandr Wang. "Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1801488608353808822) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2024-06-14T05:35Z 2.1M followers, 384.9K engagements


"Something I just told a founder: Stay as small as you can for as long as you can. People who come to visit your office should always be surprised that such an important company has so few employees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1962736318049288199) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-09-02T04:36Z 2.1M followers, 698.7K engagements


"The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976195168668876840) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T07:56Z 2.1M followers, 504.8K engagements


"It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know which aspects of the snapshot are essential and which are random things you'd been about to change anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979477064878330340) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:18Z 2.1M followers, 215.4K engagements


"Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities but you can't get your college years back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1948723683574333536) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-07-25T12:35Z 2.1M followers, 1.9M engagements


"He's right. Except in a few edge cases everything good (health education rule of law tolerance) is downstream of economic growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975560652925321653) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-07T13:55Z 2.1M followers, 193.3K engagements


"@atlasx100 I wouldn't spend that on a car now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976193659336036452) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T07:50Z 2.1M followers, 340.5K engagements


"Jessica's on the train home. What will she want for dinner Black beans I decided. So I made black beans. Then I checked my email and found a message from Jessica saying she'll be home soon and would I make black beans for dinner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976701177065517321) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:27Z 2.1M followers, 520.3K engagements


"Something that's obvious in retrospect but I only noticed after years as a primary school parent: kids who are bullies or assholes tend to have parents who are too and this often makes it hard for the administrators to keep a lid on bad behavior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976995566052950370) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T12:57Z 2.1M followers, 233.9K engagements


"We developed a new technique for measuring the boys' heights accurately: we make them put their heels on a piece of paper and if Jessica can pull it out we know they're cheating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977299067504894174) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T09:03Z 2.1M followers, 81.8K engagements


"Me: How much salt do you put in your tomato sauce Jessica: Not too much. But not too little. Me: How long do you cook it for Jessica: Not too long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977724693957267913) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T13:14Z 2.1M followers, 116K engagements


"Benioff is eccentric and maybe well-meaning but I can't help noticing his oscillations coincide with whatever side has the upper hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977742715128348974) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T14:26Z 2.1M followers, 245.1K engagements


""My plan for dealing with the mornings getting darker is to sleep longer." Jessica"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978446147795439646) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-15T13:01Z 2.1M followers, 63.8K engagements


"Wow tariffs have increased prices dramatically for domestic goods as well as imported. Obviously because domestic goods use imported materials and components. But apparently that wasn't obvious to the people who cooked up this policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978782257910329711) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T11:17Z 2.1M followers, 429.7K engagements


"TIL the C in ENIAC was "Computor.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979589710927241558) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T16:45Z 2.1M followers, 42.9K engagements


"@JonErlichman The dollar has decreased in value by about X% since Trump took office. So that $60t is really more like $54t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980388998729331159) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-20T21:41Z 2.1M followers, 63.4K engagements


"Prediction: LLMs in their current form may not be able to do everything but AI now has enough momentum that this won't matter. Beam engines couldn't do everything either but they were enough to set off the Industrial Revolution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980533520021045567) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-21T07:16Z 2.1M followers, 372.9K engagements


"@GaryMarcus What I mean is that AI has enough momentum now that the limits of LLMs whatever they turn out to be won't matter because we'll discover other technologies that are more powerful. Just as in (say) 1800 the eventual development of internal combustion engines was inevitable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980652258170925556) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-21T15:07Z 2.1M followers, 11.7K engagements


"One of the biggest disconnects between school and reality: schools give you credit for effort but customers don't. Young founders often get whiplash from this transition at YC. After XX years of getting credit for effort it suddenly stops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1085944346317332480) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2019-01-17T16:58Z 2.1M followers, 6485 engagements


"@sama I've noticed more and more in my replies. And not just from fake accounts run by groups and countries that want to influence public opinion. There also seem to be a lot of individual would-be influencers using AI-generated replies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1963368222926983190) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-09-03T22:27Z 2.1M followers, 148.2K engagements


"I donated. I don't agree with all his positions but Massie is a man of principle and that is what we need more of right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975823402515808547) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-08T07:19Z 2.1M followers, 419K engagements


"Next to my mouse I keep its ancient ancestor this massive Paleolithic flint handaxe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1975831028020486387) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-08T07:50Z 2.1M followers, 154.2K engagements


"Very briefly I got a version of GMail where one email in my inbox *had* to be selected even if there wasn't one I wanted to focus on. It was unbearably annoying. Then the feature just disappeared. Anyone else see it Do I dare to hope it's gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976709159094505864) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:59Z 2.1M followers, 62.2K engagements


"The most striking thing I've noticed so far was the degree to which the atomic theory was an act of faith for Dalton at first. Almost all his numbers were wrong but he was convinced the basic theory was right because it was so elegant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976765547695292618) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T21:43Z 2.1M followers, 48.5K engagements


"A rare case where you don't want the logo to be too legible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976787841427685493) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T23:12Z 2.1M followers, 76.6K engagements


"@ReichlinMelnick In this as in many other things Trump's model of the world is how things were in the 1980s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976950838750068881) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-11T09:59Z 2.1M followers, 8786 engagements


"@johnjhorton In 6th grade I was the shortest boy. Only one kid in my year (Annette Wilson) was shorter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977406268282392801) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T16:09Z 2.1M followers, 1809 engagements


"This monster parsnip from our garden ended up yielding three dinners and a lunch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977484639330553990) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T21:20Z 2.1M followers, 75.8K engagements


"@arvidkahl That's not true unless you're defining "target customer" in a way that makes your statement a tautology. I've definitely been discouraged from buying things by this trick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977495303424238038) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-12T22:03Z 2.1M followers, 21.2K engagements


"@doubleape @itsolelehmann Till it's common to have AI apps running in glasses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1977791393197068339) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-13T17:39Z 2.1M followers, 5786 engagements


"@simonsarris In questions of growth it's the slope that matters and this is a dramatic slope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978796467834790011) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T12:13Z 2.1M followers, 9631 engagements


"@eastdakota @rmhrisk It's helpful if they have different skills but not necessary. The most important way to be different is simply being a different person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979093236565020688) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T07:52Z 2.1M followers, 3606 engagements


"@stalmico There is nothing that makes you more attractive to most investors than not needing their money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979120658006089766) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T09:41Z 2.1M followers, 7463 engagements


"@thisisgrantlee Though you don't cite a source this data seems to be from that 2018 paper by Azoulay et al. Their methodology for selecting "startups" is a joke. Read the paper and see for yourself:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979475252460523657) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:10Z 2.1M followers, 57.4K engagements


"@thisisgrantlee Anyone who wants to can do a better study for themselves in half an hour. Walk down the Nasdaq in order of market cap and make a weighted average of the founders' ages. Since there's a power law distribution the answer won't change after the first XX companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979475799200673962) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:13Z 2.1M followers, 55.3K engagements


"@JoelEngardio Thank you for telling her story. I have my mother's recipes too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979479327755411762) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:27Z 2.1M followers, 7476 engagements


"I was talking to the founder of a very successful startup and he said the best time was in the first few years when they were just a handful of smart people trying to solve hard problems and no one expected anything of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1822403663433990503) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2024-08-10T22:44Z 2.1M followers, 306.9K engagements


"The problem with starting a startup to make something for schools is that startups have to begin by selling to early adopters and schools aren't early adopters of anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1875991091419533327) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-01-05T19:41Z 2.1M followers, 414.8K engagements


"@eastdakota I don't think this can be the explanation. Such a plan would fall into the category of diabolically clever and people who were diabolically clever would know that Jan Mayen is part of Norway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1909939593769787755) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-04-09T12:00Z 2.1M followers, 25.1K engagements


"What companies are overextended and are going to collapse if there's a recession Might be good to start asking that now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1917321691379757295) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-04-29T20:54Z 2.1M followers, 841.8K engagements


"Something I explained to XX yo: There is no intrinsically fair price for any commodity just the market price. Most people have no problem understanding that. Until the commodity is labor. Then suddenly it becomes hard to understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1924762783893106974) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-05-20T09:43Z 2.1M followers, 1.3M engagements


"I just talked to a startup whose market cap if they succeed will be so large that we didn't even try to estimate it. It would just sound like fiction to investors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1952467330405204350) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-04T20:31Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M engagements


"@neuralvarez Most startups even if they succeed will have market caps in the billions or tens of billions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1952514020172616065) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-04T23:36Z 2.1M followers, 59.3K engagements


"I met a founder today who said he writes 10000 lines of code a day now thanks to AI. This is probably the limit case. He's a hotshot programmer he knows AI tools very well and he's talking about a XX hour day. But he's not naive. This is not 10000 lines of bug-filled crap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1953289830982664236) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-07T02:59Z 2.1M followers, 2.5M engagements


"Vibe coding is here to stay. I'd been worried it might be a fad but I talked to the founder of an infrastructure company who's in a position to see how well vibe-coded apps are doing and he said a lot of them are making money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1956458026652799173) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-08-15T20:48Z 2.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"A spectacular example of Orwellian doublespeak from the UK Home Secretary: "Just because you have a freedom doesnt mean you have to use it at every moment of every day." In fact the ability do something whenever you want is practically the definition of a freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1974899202569515321) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-05T18:07Z 2.1M followers, 300.6K engagements


"Why good comedians tend to be short"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976196883581432065) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-09T08:03Z 2.1M followers, 282.6K engagements


"@abhishekray07 I don't carry a phone unless I'm going somewhere to meet someone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976704083554656684) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-10T17:39Z 2.1M followers, 47.3K engagements


"Good cofounder no cofounder bad cofounder. This may seem obvious but a lot of people don't seem to grasp it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1978772269284340022) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-16T10:37Z 2.1M followers, 334.3K engagements


"@eliasstravik The hot startups they're just happy to be in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979119264700228059) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T09:36Z 2.1M followers, 12.2K engagements


"@ssijak If you buy insurance and don't end up filing a claim have you spent money on nothing (No.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979119811993968714) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-17T09:38Z 2.1M followers, 11.8K engagements


"@hthieblot Advisors at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979478704628621318) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T09:24Z 2.1M followers, 88.4K engagements


"@TheEconomist He has to keep fighting simply because it would weaken him to admit publicly that he can't win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1979591415928869228) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-18T16:52Z 2.1M followers, 30.5K engagements


"@Austen It's similar at Y Combinator except ideally you never go back to normal life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980293121847259208) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-20T15:20Z 2.1M followers, 10.1K engagements


"@aphysicist Steam engines did no such thing. Newcomen engines the first steam engines were so inefficient that they were only useful in coal mines where the fuel was right there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1980653920142913679) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-21T15:14Z 2.1M followers, 31.8K engagements