Mr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no asshole" rule

YCombinator, over the past couple of days, has had nearly every major technology investor and press person visit its Mountain View headquarters to witness the birth of 36 new startups. He explains what YCombinator is, then have a short conversation with me about the companies that revealed themselves for the first time yesterday.

One of my favorite parts of this conversation is when we talked about his "no assholes" rule.

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Science & Technology

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• ycombinator
• startups
• incubator
• startup
• investment
• investor
• companies
• technology
• tech

[uchuff]

"no assholes" at 4:20

[tylergillies]

Paul is a good casual speaker

[vemvdotnet]

guy is my hero

[thegreeensky]

the best communicator ive ever heard.. nice voice... :)

[mailmepizza]

Having never heard Paul speak before, I was expecting a British accent. I'm a bit disappointed but he does have a great demeanor.

[bootiack]

whats with this hummmmmmmm noise he makes

[naplesblondie]

love his essays  and love listening

[republican328]

I'm not a hacker or an entrepreneur, but Paul Graham's essays are awesome reading. He has so many good ones, but "Inequality and Risk" is my favorite.

[danrbr]

@nosajghoul He now is on @paulg. Thanks to Avi Bryant, who commented on hacker news, and works on twitter since he sold his smalltalk project (and the rest of his compnay) called Trendly for them

[phektus]

@tylergillies he seems to really excel in communicating