What Paul Graham thinks about OpenAI

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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1. 3 Sept 2026

   Our readingYou do not displace Google by attacking it head-on; you wait until the world has changed enough to make its model obsolete, which is what OpenAI did.

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   Their wordsthe way you make a new Google is not by attacking them head on. You have to wait for things to change so much that their model is is obsolete and that's when you can do it. And that's what Open AI is.

   ↗Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Foundersyoutube.com 3rd of 16 in this recording