Amjad Masad

I always wanted to meet Paul Graham.

I always had this intent of like, I would like imagine the conversation we would have.

Paul Graham is the founder of Y Combinator.

And like he also founded the site Hacker News and I was reading that a lot.

He wrote a lot about programming and things like that.

I really respected how he thought.

And, you know, one morning,

Obviously, I do things in the world.

I don't sit there and just visualize.

You act.

One morning in 2017, I get a message from Sam Altman

on Twitter and he's like hey I'm Sam I run and I say dude I know who you are so Sam before opening I was running Y Combinator the premier startup accelerator and he's like I'd like you to come meet me and so I went and met him and he gave me this address I'm like where is this this is not Y Combinator I know Y Combinator is mine with you

and I walked into this place, and it was called OpenAI, and next to it was Neuralink.

It was like a small Elon fiefdom in the mission in San Francisco when Elon was still involved in OpenAI.

So I met Sam there, and when we sat down, he said he had his laptop in front of him, and turning around, he's like, read this email.

It's an email from Paul Graham, and he says, like, there's this site replica.

It's, like, really cool.

It's something I've thought about for a long time, where we can, like, make it really easy to code and host applications.

Um, and we should, we should like reach out to them and get them into the YC batch.

And we had like tried to apply to YC many, many times before.