Paul Graham

1964–Present · Co-founder of Y Combinator, Essayist

Built Viaweb (the first web app), sold it to Yahoo, then co-founded Y Combinator and launched more successful startups than any institution in history — Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Reddit. But his real legacy is the essays. Graham writes about life, work, and death with the precision of a programmer and the honesty of someone who knows time is finite. A Grithosian prunes the bullshit and spends their days on what actually matters.

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DTH-X-0056“A peer died young and now I measure my whole life against theirs.”DTH-X-0057“We always said we'd travel after retirement and now they can't.”

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