[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @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. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +26% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +24% - X Month XXX +3.50% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +0.13% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +0.45% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +3.40% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +8.40% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money) 3.45%, [market cap](/topic/market-cap) 1.38%, [insurance](/topic/insurance) 1.38%, [momentum](/topic/momentum) #336, [all the](/topic/all-the) 0.69%, [norway](/topic/norway) 0.69%, [commodity](/topic/commodity) 0.69%, [tens](/topic/tens) 0.69%, [positions](/topic/positions) 0.69%, [a very](/topic/a-very) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@aaronrubailey](/creator/undefined) [@liron](/creator/undefined) [@ailexsi](/creator/undefined) [@infin8erer](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@rburton](/creator/undefined) [@ascriven01](/creator/undefined) [@itsmunter](/creator/undefined) [@thestonechat](/creator/undefined) [@mnmcsofgp](/creator/undefined) [@johnjhorton](/creator/undefined) [@itsolelehmann](/creator/undefined) [@shaneaparrish](/creator/undefined) [@itsmarcopaul](/creator/undefined) [@waral555](/creator/undefined) [@pagantech](/creator/undefined) [@subduedradical](/creator/undefined) [@craigsuperstar](/creator/undefined) [@theonlydsc](/creator/undefined) [@stalmico](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::183749519/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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 "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, 334.4K 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 "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 "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 "@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 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 "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 "@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 "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 "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 "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 "@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 "@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 "@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 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 "@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 "Renaming in general is lame. It was lame of the Democrats to try to rename Fort Bragg. It's lame of the Republicans to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico" [X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1889122208351436870) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-02-11T01:20Z 2.1M followers, 663.2K 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, 282.7K engagements "@elonmusk Interesting point but an example might make it clearer. Can you think of a prominent person who's currently wasting his talents in software when he could be working on manufacturing and heavy industries" [X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1645107536616357888) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2023-04-09T16:52Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M 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 "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 "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 "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, 698.8K 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, 415.7K 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 "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 "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, 193.4K 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, 340.6K 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, 504.9K 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 "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 "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 "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 "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, 146.3K 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, 429.9K 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, 473.2K 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, 215.7K 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, 43K 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 "@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, 373.7K 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, 11.8K 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 "The reason (good) investors are more optimistic is that for them the outcomes are weighted. If you're just measuring percent correct you win by predicting startups will fail. But if the outcomes are weighted you look for big wins even at the risk of many small misses" [X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1981807820472561953) [@paulg](/creator/x/paulg) 2025-10-24T19:39Z 2.1M followers, 96.4K engagements
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@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.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +26%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XXX +24%
- X Month XXX +3.50%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXX -XXXX%
Followers: XXXXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX +0.13%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +0.45%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +3.40%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +8.40%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance XXXX% countries XXXX% exchanges XXXX% celebrities XXXX% vc firms XXXX%
Social topic influence money 3.45%, market cap 1.38%, insurance 1.38%, momentum #336, all the 0.69%, norway 0.69%, commodity 0.69%, tens 0.69%, positions 0.69%, a very XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @aaronrubailey @liron @ailexsi @infin8erer @grok @rburton @ascriven01 @itsmunter @thestonechat @mnmcsofgp @johnjhorton @itsolelehmann @shaneaparrish @itsmarcopaul @waral555 @pagantech @subduedradical @craigsuperstar @theonlydsc @stalmico
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"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 @paulg 2025-08-04T20:31Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M engagements
"Good cofounder no cofounder bad cofounder. This may seem obvious but a lot of people don't seem to grasp it"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-16T10:37Z 2.1M followers, 334.4K 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 @paulg 2025-10-10T21:40Z 2.1M followers, 90.3K engagements
"Bold leadership from Alexandr Wang. "Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.""
X Link @paulg 2024-06-14T05:35Z 2.1M followers, 384.9K 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 @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 @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 @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 @paulg 2025-05-20T09:43Z 2.1M followers, 1.3M engagements
"@neuralvarez Most startups even if they succeed will have market caps in the billions or tens of billions"
X Link @paulg 2025-08-04T23:36Z 2.1M followers, 59.3K 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 @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 @paulg 2025-10-08T07:50Z 2.1M followers, 154.2K 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 @paulg 2025-10-10T17:27Z 2.1M followers, 520.3K engagements
"@abhishekray07 I don't carry a phone unless I'm going somewhere to meet someone"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-10T17:39Z 2.1M followers, 47.3K 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 @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 @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 @paulg 2025-10-10T23:12Z 2.1M followers, 76.6K 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 @paulg 2025-10-12T09:03Z 2.1M followers, 81.8K engagements
"This monster parsnip from our garden ended up yielding three dinners and a lunch"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-12T21:20Z 2.1M followers, 75.8K engagements
"@simonsarris In questions of growth it's the slope that matters and this is a dramatic slope"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-16T12:13Z 2.1M followers, 9631 engagements
"@eliasstravik The hot startups they're just happy to be in"
X Link @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 @paulg 2025-10-17T09:38Z 2.1M followers, 11.8K engagements
"@stalmico There is nothing that makes you more attractive to most investors than not needing their money"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-17T09:41Z 2.1M followers, 7463 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 @paulg 2025-10-18T09:13Z 2.1M followers, 55.3K engagements
"@hthieblot Advisors at all"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-18T09:24Z 2.1M followers, 88.4K engagements
"Renaming in general is lame. It was lame of the Democrats to try to rename Fort Bragg. It's lame of the Republicans to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico"
X Link @paulg 2025-02-11T01:20Z 2.1M followers, 663.2K engagements
"Why good comedians tend to be short"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-09T08:03Z 2.1M followers, 282.7K engagements
"@elonmusk Interesting point but an example might make it clearer. Can you think of a prominent person who's currently wasting his talents in software when he could be working on manufacturing and heavy industries"
X Link @paulg 2023-04-09T16:52Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M 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 @paulg 2024-08-10T22:44Z 2.1M followers, 306.9K 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 @paulg 2025-07-25T12:35Z 2.1M followers, 1.9M 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 @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 @paulg 2025-08-15T20:48Z 2.1M followers, 1.1M 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 @paulg 2025-09-02T04:36Z 2.1M followers, 698.8K engagements
"Organizations that can't measure performance end up measuring performativeness instead"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-02T05:14Z 2.1M followers, 415.7K 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 @paulg 2025-10-05T18:07Z 2.1M followers, 300.6K engagements
"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 @paulg 2025-10-07T12:01Z 2.1M followers, 2.7M 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 @paulg 2025-10-07T13:55Z 2.1M followers, 193.4K engagements
"@atlasx100 I wouldn't spend that on a car now"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-09T07:50Z 2.1M followers, 340.6K engagements
"The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-09T07:56Z 2.1M followers, 504.9K 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 @paulg 2025-10-11T12:57Z 2.1M followers, 233.9K 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 @paulg 2025-10-13T13:14Z 2.1M followers, 116K engagements
"Pictures of quinces by John Aldridge"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-13T14:11Z 2.1M followers, 41.4K 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 @paulg 2025-10-13T14:26Z 2.1M followers, 245.1K 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 @paulg 2025-10-15T11:57Z 2.1M followers, 146.3K engagements
""My plan for dealing with the mornings getting darker is to sleep longer." Jessica"
X Link @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 @paulg 2025-10-16T11:17Z 2.1M followers, 429.9K 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 @paulg 2025-10-17T08:25Z 2.1M followers, 473.2K 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 @paulg 2025-10-18T09:18Z 2.1M followers, 215.7K engagements
"TIL the C in ENIAC was "Computor.""
X Link @paulg 2025-10-18T16:45Z 2.1M followers, 43K engagements
"@TheEconomist He has to keep fighting simply because it would weaken him to admit publicly that he can't win"
X Link @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 @paulg 2025-10-20T15:20Z 2.1M followers, 10.1K 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 @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 @paulg 2025-10-21T07:16Z 2.1M followers, 373.7K 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 @paulg 2025-10-21T15:07Z 2.1M followers, 11.8K 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 @paulg 2025-10-21T15:14Z 2.1M followers, 31.8K engagements
"The reason (good) investors are more optimistic is that for them the outcomes are weighted. If you're just measuring percent correct you win by predicting startups will fail. But if the outcomes are weighted you look for big wins even at the risk of many small misses"
X Link @paulg 2025-10-24T19:39Z 2.1M followers, 96.4K engagements