Paul Graham

But in the past five years, San Francisco has emerged as the AI capital of the world.

And, you know, even people like Paul Graham, for instance, have been commenting h- on how AI has become more concentrated geographically and not less.

And the second part, you used the word leapfrogging.

Leapfrogging is a very Fashionable term that has been around for something like 30 years now.

So this is a billion-and-a-half dollar deal with no investment banker.

Um, you know, I'm a big believer in, you know, um, Paul Graham's, uh, calls it founder mode.

I'm a big believer in founder mode, meaning like, why would I outsource one of the most important decisions of my founder journey to a 30-year-old associate at Goldman Sachs, uh, you know, who is completely conflicted, uh, and who just wants to get a deal done to get paid, and frankly, will do much more business with the strategic that's gonna acquire me than with me, right? And so I, I just think, I think the, the more interesting...

So, so yeah.

I know I follow some entrepreneurial stuff.

Paul Graham, who... founder of Y Combinator, recently wrote an article, wrote and published on the university itself, actually, and about how the university tends to, or a lot of university programs focused on entrepreneurship tend to actually not create entrepreneurs.

which I found really interesting and thought-provoking.

The article was essentially advocating for just creating, almost like you described, these spaces where people have the tools and the resources to actually create and explore with a little bit of guide rails, but pretty much they're hands-off.

This recently got criticized for DEI by one VC and eventually spilled over into an all-out timeline war on the topic of skilled immigration.

Palmer Luckey chiming in, Paul Graham chiming in, Solana, during all of this, you took the time to understand everything there is about America's immigration system.

Everything.

so i will kick everything everything you are the expert so i will kick it over to you if you can tell us how to h1 be an american

yes so obviously what attracted me first to the story was just the drama i mean you know me uh you've got palmer lucky fighting with paul graham we do have some y people in yc people in there you can read about all that not really a summary of that really is all i got into uh in the piece because while that was what first attracted me to this thing um There is the question of the H-1B.

That is the giant visa in the room with us right now.

We have to talk about this thing.