Paul Graham ✓

@paulg · joined 27 Aug 2010

5 104 159Followers

798Following

54 534Posts total

733.5KViews on collected posts

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	79 492	66 438	1.20×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.56%	2.70%	0.58×
Engagement rate	1.21%	1.45%	0.83×

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This is what happens when you cheat by taking advantage of trust established by more principled predecessors. You burn the trust. 114.9K views · 2K likes · 108 reposts · 93 replies 02 Sep 2026 When I did office hours with this startup in the middle of August, I told them their product was already good enough and that they should stop writing code for now and just focus entirely on acquiring customers. They listened! https://t.co/dI1m5Ul7xH 81.5K views · 959 likes · 22 reposts · 83 replies 02 Sep 2026 One of the distinctive things about YC as compared to later stage investors is that you have to be prepared to give advice about practically everything. Names, logos, features, hiring, visas, LOIs, ads, investor pitches, and even when to ditch the idea. 77.5K views · 589 likes · 12 reposts · 49 replies 02 Sep 2026 @paulg I just checked. 95% are LLM bots. You’re definitely the most targeted, especially since the models have all been trained on your essays. 71.3K views · 1.5K likes · 11 reposts · 64 replies 02 Sep 2026 "Now, most people hate to admit they're wrong, but it didn't bother Bill one bit. All he cared about was what was right, not who was right. That's what makes Bill very, very dangerous." — Larry Ellison on Bill Gates 184.6K views · 3.5K likes · 188 reposts · 115 replies 02 Sep 2026 @paulg How you doing, Mr. Paul? I just want to ask you a question, and this is with no disrespect. But for a long time now, I’ve noticed you seem to have a problem with AI responses. I’m not really sure if it’s AI itself or people using AI to respond. A while back I noticed you 5.3K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 @paulg I think this is good. Maybe it will encourage people to not reply with AI on random tweets. 637 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Twitter has started classifying a lot of AI-generated replies as probable spam. On a recent tweet of mine it hid 34 of 59 replies as probable spam, presumably mostly for this reason. I assume this ratio will only get worse, and that from now on most replies will be hidden. 197.8K views · 1.8K likes · 33 reposts · 328 replies 02 Sep 2026

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