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In 2010, two Irish kids set out to pull off the biggest upset in Silicon Valley history. With one email to Paul Graham and a simple hack, they built a $95B company. Here's the crazy story: At 16, Patrick and John Collison built software for eBay

𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 $𝟳𝟱𝗠 𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝗶𝗻 𝟳 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 This is how fast things move in the AI world: Anton Osika started a side project in mid-2023 using GPT Engineer. The idea? No code, no syntax. Just describe

𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬 If you're between 10 and 20, you're sitting on a goldmine. Not of money. But of 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. He

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗪𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 $𝟬 𝘁𝗼 $𝟯𝟬𝗠 𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟮𝟬 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀. 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟬 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. Let me introduce you to 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 A Swedish AI coding startup that might just be 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐠𝐫𝐨

Paul Graham's new essay which has taken over the internet. Founder Mode September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd eve