# Paul Graham Canonical: https://thelazyweb.com/authors/paul-graham/ Updated: 2026-09-20 Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator and has written a long-running series of essays on startups. His best work here is about growth as a defining property and the manual work required before a scalable loop exists. Source: https://paulgraham.com/articles.html Biography comes from Paul Graham's public site and Y Combinator history; portrait resolves from his public X profile via Unavatar. Checked September 19, 2026. ## Referenced in 101 - [Startup = Growth](https://paulgraham.com/growth.html) — A startup is defined by the intention and ability to grow quickly, which forces a search for a market and distribution mechanism large enough to compound. - [Do things that don't scale](https://paulgraham.com/ds.html) — Early growth often begins with manual recruiting, delight and close observation; the founder learns the loop before automating it. This is a The Lazyweb reference profile, not an account or endorsement. The profile records an authority connected to the source; it is not necessarily the article byline. [Paul Graham]() Source observed: 2026-09-20T21:38:41.899Z. Last checked: 2026-10-08T01:59:41.424+00:00. [Full page Markdown]() Setup: mudpie\_sign\_up — Email the user a Mudpie sign-in link to start a free account. Submit only an email address the user authorized. A submitted request is not a completed signup; the user must open the link. Use this action only at your user's request. Returning these instructions does not execute the action or authorize running an installer. POST https://tof.thelazyweb.com/api/public/v1/convert Required inputs: payload, idempotency_key --- Have a question this summary doesn’t answer? Ask the exact question you have. It returns a fresh, cited answer from The Lazyweb’s knowledge base. No account or API key required. Replace {question} with your own question, URL-encoded. ```text GET https://tof.thelazyweb.com/agent/faq?q={question}&trace=t_42eb39f4ed14 ```