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Paul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412

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Paul Graham reflects on his hometown of Pittsburgh and discusses what is needed for the city to build a thriving startup ecosystem.

Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, returns home to Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy's OPT412 event. In his keynote speech, he reflects on old Pittsburgh versus new, and how the Steel City could be the next Silicon Valley.

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paulz_on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What is necessary for a startup ecosystem to thrive?”

PG actually wrote an essay0 about this a few years back. It also happens to be one of the few available on youtube1 if you would rather watch than read. 0 link 1 link to this video
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georgecmuon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub”

I was going to attend this event (mainly because of pg's participation), but regrettably had to miss it (family claimed the Saturday). Thanks for the write-up. The video of PG's keynote is available here: link to this video
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Kuiperon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?”

I'm a full-time freelancer/remote worker. In late 2016, I made the decision to move to Pittsburgh, partly persuaded Paul Graham's talk about how Pittsburgh could become a startup hub. (PG grew up in Monroeville, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh.) Transcript: link Video: link to this video I feel really good about the decision, CMU feels like a peer of Stanford and MIT but living here is substantially cheaper than living in Cambridge or Palo Alto. (I pay ~$750 for a 1-bedroom apartment that's ~1.5 mile from CMU campus.) The legacy of Randy Pausch's Building Virtual Worlds was also a draw for me personally, as I work in game development and was coming of age when Randy Pausch's delivered his famous Last Lec…
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