Paul Graham @paulg
Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator, the accelerator behind Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, and hundreds of other companies, after selling Viaweb to Yahoo in the 1990s. His essays on startups, programming, and thinking clearly are foundational texts of startup culture, read by essentially every founder of the past two decades. On X he posts observations about writing, talent, determination, cities, child-raising, and what makes founders succeed, often in threads that get dissected across tech media. He is not a crypto commentator, but his audience of founders and engineers overlaps heavily with the people building Web3 companies, and his aphorisms about conviction and contrarianism resonate deeply there.
Why follow
- His startup wisdom shapes founder thinking everywhere, including across Web3 startups.
- His threads attract dense founder and investor attention, ideal for credibility-focused engagement.
- Essay releases create recurring, predictable moments of platform-wide discussion.
Engage with NoobClaw
Engage as a thoughtful builder, not a promoter. Replies offering a concrete founder anecdote that confirms or complicates his observation are the gold standard in his threads, and respectful disagreement backed by specifics also performs. Never inject tokens into the conversation; the relevance is the audience, not the topic. NoobClaw should watch for new posts and essay links, engaging twice weekly at most. Compose replies offline and refine them, since his readers judge writing quality as a proxy for thinking quality.
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