EP344 他問的不是商業計畫，他問的是你這個人——Y Combinator的選人哲學

如果你只能讀一個人的文章來理解矽谷的創業文化，那個人很可能是保羅葛拉漢。 一九六四年出生於英國，葛拉漢在康乃爾讀哲學，在哈佛拿電腦科學博士，同時去藝術學校學繪畫。一九九五年他創立了Viaweb，做了當時幾乎沒有人相信可行的雲端電子商務平台，三年後以四千九百萬美元賣給雅虎。 然後在二零零五年他共同創立了Y Combinator。他在Airbnb還沒有客戶的時候支持它。他在Dropbox只有一個演示的時候投資它。他看的不是商業計畫，他看的是創辦人這個人。 他還寫了幾百篇讓全世界創業者奉為必讀的文章。關於如何工作。關於財富。關於荒謬想法的價值。 今天的沉思者J，我們說說這個改變了幾個世代創業者思維的人。 If you could only read one person to understand Silicon Valley startup culture, that person is probably Paul Graham. Born in England in 1964, Graham studied philosophy at Cornell, earned a PhD in computer science at Harvard, and studied painting at art school simultaneously. In 1995 he co-founded Viaweb, building one of the earliest cloud-based e-commerce platforms at a time when almost no one believed such a thing was viable. Three years later Yahoo acquired it for 49 million dollars. Then in 2005 he co-founded Y Combinator. He backed Airbnb before it had customers. He invested in Dropbox when it had only a demo. He was not reading business plans. He was reading founders. He has also written hundreds of essays that startup communities around the world treat as essential reading. On how to work. On wealth. On the value of ideas that seem absurd at first. Today on Thinker J, we talk about the man who changed how a generation of builders thinks. 保羅葛拉漢, Paul Graham, Y Combinator, Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Stripe, 矽谷, 新創, 創業, 向大師致敬, 沉思者J, Thinker J, Jenny, 投資人, 駭客與畫家, 創辦人, 商業哲學, 傳記, 科技 Powered by Firstory Hosting