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Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
Paul Graham's keynote at PyCon 2012, in which he talks about startup ideas and what kinds of companies are likely to matter in the future. He discusses ideas such as a better email client and a search engine for hackers, and argues for looking back at the present from the future.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters return to it as a worldview-shaping talk whose predictions about technology and startup ideas turned out to be prescient.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Next Day Video
- Topic
- startup ideas
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 14
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I find these stories helpful on a lot of levels, and they provide great insight into problem solving, technology, and you end up learning a large amount about why things are the way they are when people recount how they got started. E.g Anthony Casalena …
vonklaus on Hacker News · 2015-11
In Jessica Livingston on the Accidental Origin of Y Combinator[VIDEO] This was the first time I watched pg give a talk. It was the talk that brought about the biggest change in the way I think about the world, my ambitions. The talk was the beginning, reading more about pg, I came across his …
anondon on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?I always believed paulg was way ahead of his time. - LISP over C++/Java - The first ever web app in Viaweb - The first ever startup accelerator - Check this talk from 2012: [VIDEO] a lot of today's most impressive cos Superhuman, Lambda School, …
rahulchhabra07 on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Ask HN: Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?
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