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Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?

aired May 13, 2026 · 21.0m
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Summary

I'm going to talk about two questions today that many of you have probably wondered about. Should you go to Silicon Valley?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of valley, it's, silicon, including: The first one is about you.

Key takeaways
  1. 01They both encourage and compete with one another, and that means when someone who has a good idea doesn't sit on it
  2. 02Well, for the past year, a big Boston VC firm had been keeping a benevolent eye on them, offering them lots of encouragement and advice, not money, just encouragement and advice, r
  3. 03When you move to a big pond, you can measure yourself up against known big fish, and you can see how big a fish you are
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