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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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### Social Influence

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[finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  #3380 [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) #607, [money](/topic/money) 7.58%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 6.06%, [put the](/topic/put-the) #315, [all the](/topic/all-the) 3.03%, [coinbase](/topic/coinbase) #409, [built on](/topic/built-on) #3, [rolls royce](/topic/rolls-royce) #193, [year of](/topic/year-of) 1.52%, [were so](/topic/were-so) XXXX%

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"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)  2025-08-07T02:59Z 2.1M followers, 2.5M engagements


"A year of smoothly exponential growth and then suddenly it stops working. That has to be demoralizing. But the startup toughs it out and five months later growth is back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996082304301879781)  2025-12-03T05:01Z 2.1M followers, 281.3K engagements


"I talked to a startup today that had been forced to take so much from investors and whose expenses were so low that they could put the money in bonds and fund their operations off the interest. I told them they should"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995278455332856176)  2025-11-30T23:47Z 2.1M followers, 516.8K engagements


"Don't fear competitors who've raised a lot unless you can say precisely how all that extra money is going to make them beat you. E.g. if ads are the only way to acquire users and they can buy all the ads you're in trouble. But money per se is not dangerous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996235188976693330)  2025-12-03T15:08Z 2.1M followers, 99.2K engagements


"This is why Stripe works so aggressively to get all the startups in each YC batch to use it. Once you've picked a solution for payments if it ain't broke you're not going to fix it. And then their revenues automatically grow at startup rates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996239273004257708)  2025-12-03T15:25Z 2.1M followers, 34.9K engagements


"One day later: Gemini claims it has never been able to generate images"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1760296665573966245)  2024-02-21T13:33Z 2.1M followers, 38.3K 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)  2025-01-05T19:41Z 2.1M followers, 414.8K engagements


"Why good comedians tend to be short"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1976196883581432065)  2025-10-09T08:03Z 2.1M followers, 283.3K 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)  2025-10-18T09:18Z 2.1M followers, 224.2K engagements


"This simultaneously damaged the brands of both the Longshoremen and Rolex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1992009238387061005)  2025-11-21T23:16Z 2.1M followers, 144.9K engagements


"Scottish portraitists didn't flatter their sitters. Here are Raeburn (left) and Ramsay (right). Ramsay tended to paint everyone with a underbite which was particularly hard on the female sitters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1992649798516675029)  2025-11-23T17:41Z 2.1M followers, 46.6K engagements


"That could be a useful heuristic for picking domains to attack with AI. If the work being done in some domain is already slop when done by humans then presumably current AI can do it well enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995131132715868573)  2025-11-30T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 63.6K engagements


"A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that XX% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1955504869709844794)  2025-08-13T05:41Z 2.1M followers, 2.5M engagements


"@aviralbhat Actually those are all legitimate motivations. I started Viaweb very explicitly to make money and that worked out well enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1991484340308701326)  2025-11-20T12:30Z 2.1M followers, 275.1K engagements


""You'd look like a wacko old man. And I'm not ready for you to look like a wacko old man." Jessica on why I can't wear Birkenstocks and socks to Demo Day (I told her it's now fashionable to do this which might be true but she seemed skeptical.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995549018940997658)  2025-12-01T17:42Z 2.1M followers, 68.2K engagements


"@LocasaleLab It's not just scientific communication that's the opposite of this. All good writing is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996096160231240028)  2025-12-03T05:56Z 2.1M followers, 35.5K 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)  2023-04-09T16:52Z 2.1M followers, 1.7M engagements


"One advantage of having many distinct sovereign nations instead of a single world government is that they can try different policies and we can see which work best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1984013356576207235)  2025-10-30T21:43Z 2.1M followers, 1.8M engagements


"If you invested at the peak of the Nasdaq in March 2000 it would have been roughly XX years before you were whole again: XX years before the index reached the same point plus another X for inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1988986258430075207)  2025-11-13T15:04Z 2.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"If this doesn't hold the record for highest ratio of frame to art it must be close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1992350025347903565)  2025-11-22T21:50Z 2.1M followers, 53.5K engagements


"I talked to a startup that's not a software company but uses AI quite a lot. They currently have X employees. I asked how many more people they'd need to hire if they didn't use AI and they said about XX. So AI is increasing their productivity about 2.7x"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1994184673572839672)  2025-11-27T23:20Z 2.1M followers, 830.7K engagements


"I met a startup today whose founders had previously worked at Coinbase and Scale. And Brian Armstrong of Coinbase had himself worked at Airbnb. I bet X "generations" is not the record though. Anyone know of a longer chain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1994904099566031300)  2025-11-29T22:59Z 2.1M followers, 188.6K engagements


"I talked to a startup yesterday that had been forced to compress certain information to fit it into an LLM context window. But compression is understanding and in the compressed form the information could be used for other new things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1994905280996676054)  2025-11-29T23:04Z 2.1M followers, 117.6K engagements


"I dreamt there was a new fashion for plaid lambda expressions. I didn't like them so when McCarthy came to convince me to use them I snuck out the back to avoid him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995120210521575585)  2025-11-30T13:18Z 2.1M followers, 40.8K engagements


"Jessica and I went out to lunch with Trevor Blackwell and we laughed the whole time. It reminded me of how much we used to laugh in the early years of YC. We tried to hide it because it didn't seem very professional but I now think it was not unrelated to how well YC did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995121316270141679)  2025-11-30T13:22Z 2.1M followers, 119.8K engagements


"VCs always seemed such stiffs to us and I think that too was not unrelated to why they couldn't compete at the earliest stage of investing. Seed investing is a comedy of errors. You have to embrace this to do it well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995122619700346915)  2025-11-30T13:27Z 2.1M followers, 45K engagements


"If you want me to ignore your email put the word "opportunity" in the subject line. If you want to make doubly sure put "exclusive" in there too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995129398518059032)  2025-11-30T13:54Z 2.1M followers, 135K engagements


"I was talking recently to a startup using AI to take over a certain kind of work. Apparently investors are skeptical that AI could do it. I told them they should point out that most of this work already seems as if it's done by AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995130282836656553)  2025-11-30T13:58Z 2.1M followers, 71.2K engagements


"I met with a startup in the current batch who seemed demoralized because fundraising was going badly. Later I learned they'd already raised a million dollars. Fundraising going badly is not what it used to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995133423199899666)  2025-11-30T14:10Z 2.1M followers, 317.4K engagements


"This image looks grim to us but when Terence Cuneo painted it in 1947 it was a picture of progress. In fact it was commissioned by Ford whose factory it portrays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995706322671861765)  2025-12-02T04:07Z 2.1M followers, 104.3K engagements


"They get a lot done at Coinbase"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1995863159773769782)  2025-12-02T14:30Z 2.1M followers, 252.7K engagements


"@deepfates It looks obviously AI now but at the time it was surprising that AI could do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996038866592248262)  2025-12-03T02:08Z 2.1M followers, 284.1K engagements


"A question that Google AI is never likely to answer well: "What are the lowest quality products that buy a lot of search ads on Google Name specific brands.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996100969990697265)  2025-12-03T06:15Z 2.1M followers, 100K engagements


"Here's the masterpiece of bland evasion that I got in reply:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996102927946318133)  2025-12-03T06:23Z 2.1M followers, 42.1K engagements


"When describing a startup it's usually better to use verbs rather than nouns. Say what you do rather than what you are. Not because it sounds more dynamic but simply because it's clearer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996235573867266083)  2025-12-03T15:10Z 2.1M followers, 147.1K engagements


"A startup told me that one of their investors didn't like it that they were selling to newly founded startups and wanted them to sell to bigger companies who have more money. If investors tell you this write them off as idiots. Selling to startups is the best thing you can do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996237714086314254)  2025-12-03T15:18Z 2.1M followers, 364.6K engagements


"As long as all newly founded startups prefer your product don't worry about competitors who can convince larger customers. You'll own all future cohorts of companies and that's more than enough. Plus in practice you'll eventually convert the old cohorts too if you bother to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996238697067614229)  2025-12-03T15:22Z 2.1M followers, 54.5K engagements


"This company is XX years old and still has the energy of a startup. I don't know how he does it but it's genuine because he's always been this way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996241292385468912)  2025-12-03T15:33Z 2.1M followers, 777K engagements


"How can he be a "big AI critic" and not have even tried ChatGPT till now He has less experience of AI than the median teenager and he feels confident enough to talk about AI policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996659520748376534)  2025-12-04T19:15Z 2.1M followers, 507.6K engagements


"Pretty good clearance on the single eyebrow raise. That's what XX years of hearing dubious pitches does to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1996992910630297933)  2025-12-05T17:19Z 2.1M followers, 50.3K engagements


"@dayoadeosun10 Nor is the current one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1998012966449344688)  2025-12-08T12:53Z 2.1M followers, 172.5K engagements


"@zfellows This is a misquotation. What I actually wrote was "If you're in a job that feels safe you are not going to get rich because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage." If you want to get quotes right copy and paste from the original essay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1998013830664741140)  2025-12-08T12:56Z 2.1M followers, 97.1K engagements


"This is one of the cleverest stories in startups. For years we'd been worrying about how to finance the airliner. Then Boom realized that if they could build jet engines they could build gas turbines and fund the airliner with the profits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1998468430324814022)  2025-12-09T19:02Z 2.1M followers, 546.9K engagements


"@johnarnold Is this to get extra time on tests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1998473175240479077)  2025-12-09T19:21Z 2.1M followers, 81.7K engagements


"@c_omargt It was Rolls Royce that made this possible. If they hadn't dropped out as an engine supplier Boom would still be just an airframe company and chasing investor money to fund production"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1998508609102074050)  2025-12-09T21:42Z 2.1M followers, 6591 engagements


"@aloo No. Rolls Royce got them into the engine business after they dropped out as a supplier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/paulg/status/1998508912845476094)  2025-12-09T21:43Z 2.1M followers, 7086 engagements