Making Startups Powerful
Paul explores how founders can make a company more powerful through customer relationships, network effects, and changes to the product itself.
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham is a programmer, essayist, and investor who cofounded Y Combinator and writes about startups, making things, and thinking clearly.
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How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Paul argues that universities should help students become good at building things and encourage projects of their own.
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How to Earn a Billion Dollars
Based on a talk at the Oxford Union, this essay explains Paul's view of how startup founders create wealth and why growth matters.
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How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax
Paul works through a numerical example to explain his proposed comparison between wealth taxes and income taxes, including the assumed return on capital.
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The Brand Age
Starting with the Swiss watch industry, Paul examines how businesses shift from competing on technical performance to selling the value of a brand.
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