Paul GrahamRecommended Books
Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
Paul Graham is a co-founder of Y Combinator and an essayist on startups and programming.
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Recommended Books
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Carbonel
Hard Drive
Books by Paul Graham
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“I recently read Darwin's, and reread Trollope's and Gibbon's.”
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“I know of no other collections of interviews with founders. The closest you can get is probably books about specific startups. Hard Drive, about Microsoft, is good.”
“Rereading Hardy's _Mathematician's Apology_, slowly to make it last. Among the most inspiring books I know.”
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“There is a third volume of Gerald Durrell's Corfu memoirs! So good I'm reading slow to make it last.”
“I read this during dinner and laughed so much that people must have wondered what was wrong with me.”
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