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Paul Graham
Y Combinator cofounder and essayist on startups and growth.
Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator and has written a long-running series of essays on startups. His best work here is about growth as a defining property and the manual work required before a scalable loop exists.
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Biography comes from Paul Graham's public site and Y Combinator history; portrait resolves from his public X profile via Unavatar. Checked September 19, 2026.
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- Viral marketing 101
Startup = Growth
A startup is defined by the intention and ability to grow quickly, which forces a search for a market and distribution mechanism large enough to compound. - Viral marketing 101
Do things that don't scale
Early growth often begins with manual recruiting, delight and close observation; the founder learns the loop before automating it.
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