Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine

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by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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ube• 17 years ago

Congrats PG!

And what a suave picture :-)

pg• 17 years ago

Thanks. The guys who took those pictures were really impressive. They had a monitor displaying pictures as they were taking them, and the quality was amazing.

ableal2• 17 years ago

Reminder: children pictures by a professional photographer are really worth the money ...

(Personal experience opinion department, not even personally acquainted with one, used sparingly, not a 10k camera owner.)

callmeed• 17 years ago

By chance, do you know who the photographer was?

gcheong2• 17 years ago

Did you ask them if they were looking for funding?

bdmac97• 17 years ago

Very nice!

andrewhyde• 17 years ago

Congrats! Looks fantastic.

vaksel• 17 years ago

the description is pretty link bait, he didn't launch 145 companies, YC just invested in them.

gojomo• 17 years ago

Ever hear of "the face that launched a thousand ships"?

Well, she didn't push the ships off, either. In fact, she was far away and didn't even know they were launching!

Figurative speech -- which is fair to use on a magazine cover -- needn't be judged on a literal basis.

falsestprophet• 17 years ago

Journalism isn't meant to be epic poetry.

johnnybgoode2• 17 years ago

I'm sure this is the magazine's fault, but the headline could easily be misconstrued: "Paul Graham has launched 145 companies. His formula? Smaller Cheaper Faster"

I guess it depends on what you mean by "launched", but if I didn't know about this stuff already, I'd think they were trying to tell me PG literally started 145 companies as a founder.

Again this is a knock on the magazine and not PG. They're probably just trying to sell more copies.

jrockway• 17 years ago

I agree. "Paul Graham gave 3 months of rent to some people" doesn't sound quite as nice.

grinich• 17 years ago

I'm pretty sure YC does more than that...

Ardit20• 17 years ago

Wow Paul Graham Looks quite American. Not far off from what I imagined he looked like tho, quite a father figure :)

mahmud2• 17 years ago

268 days on this site and you don't know what he looks like? btw, the buttoned-up, black-sweater look is not "American", but straight up San Francisco. The man sold out; his earlier MIT/Boston/East-Coast look was the traditional "Lisper" look (i.e. wife-beater and bandanna)

davidw4• 17 years ago

What sort of surprised me was hearing pg talk in some video. I'd been reading his stuff for years, and the voice is completely unlike what I'd imagined.

puppetsock• 17 years ago

Take http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034351734@N01/137275735/, subtract the black sweater and microphone, and you get what I call "canonical PG", in an orange polo shirt and khaki shorts.

johnnybgoode2• 17 years ago

Interesting that the longest subthread here right now, and consisting only of upvoted comments, is this one, about PG's looks and voice.

davidw4• 17 years ago

File it under that internet phenomenon of knowing a lot about someone (or at least one facet of them) without seeing or hearing them and being a bit surprised by the reality. Sort of like reading a book and then seeing the movie and being a bit disconcerted.

poub• 17 years ago

Bravo!

PG and YC need more of those cover stories to spread their message.

One step at a time :-)

And the picture really look good.

TriinT2• 17 years ago

Please note that YC is a company, not a cult. I don't see the need to "spread the message". WTF is the "message"? Whoever has the "right stuff", will find YC or similar companies. It's that simple. PG's essays are all the marketing that YC needs. Your "fanboyism" makes you look like you're 12 years old...

davidw4• 17 years ago

Err... you could happily do without the last sentence there. Otherwise, you're right.

drusenko2• 17 years ago

more mainstream publicity should be a good thing. it's not a cult, and it's not like only the "anointed ones" with the "right stuff" should know about YC. spreading the startup "message" -- that you can start your own company, instead of slaving away at a BigCo -- should be a good thing, so i'm a bit confused as to where your animosity comes from.

copenja• 17 years ago

Relax.

iamelgringo• 17 years ago

It was a pretty good article, too. Too bad it's not on the website yet. It's worth picking up in dead tree form if you're interested.

khandekars• 17 years ago

Congratulations Paul. It will be nice to have a prominent page on ycombinator.com that links to all launched startups. Edit: Found the link -- http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

azsromej• 17 years ago

I read the thing cover to cover a few days ago, and I never think to post - I think Inc set me mine early. It's a good article.

bpyne• 17 years ago

Hopefully "Smaller Cheaper Faster" resounds in the minds of Inc's readership. Perhaps they will even take the time to read some of his essays where he expands on this perspective.

Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine

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