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Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

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Paul Graham's keynote at PyCon 2012, in which he talks about startup ideas and what kinds of companies are likely to matter in the future. He discusses ideas such as a better email client and a search engine for hackers, and argues for looking back at the present from the future.

Why HN recommends it: HN commenters return to it as a worldview-shaping talk whose predictions about technology and startup ideas turned out to be prescient.

“It was the talk that brought about the biggest change in the way I think about the world, my ambitions.” Read on HN ↗