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OpenAI

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"I realized very early on, like after using OpenAI — whoa, I don't use Google anymore. I don't use search. What I really wanted from search was not web pages. I wanted information. Why not just ask the AI for the information?"

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Claude Code mentions software

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"That convinced the rest of the world might have been Claude Code, right? Don't you think?"

From: How To Build The Future: Paul Graham & Amjad Masad • ▶ 11:09 • Nov 7, 2026

Claude mentions software

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"Go to completion. Right? Which is that's the new thing. That's what Claude does."

From: How To Build The Future: Paul Graham & Amjad Masad • ▶ 3:39 • Nov 7, 2026

ChatGPT mentions software

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"The first versions of ChatGPT were like an undergrad trying to bull his way through a paper — something plausible sounding, full human stuff, but terrible."

From: Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders • ▶ 13:52 • Sep 3, 2026

The Lean Startup mentions media

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"We already had a kind of startup that we funded in YC and maybe it has a lot of overlap with what was described in this book, The Lean Startup, but I haven't actually read it. And so — I mean, why would I? Tolkien didn't read all those other fantasy books people wrote."

From: Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders • ▶ 10:55 • Sep 3, 2026

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