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One can readily argue that Graham has earned recognition and acclaim specifically for his essays. They're part of what drew early founders to YC.

Impossible to decouple the quality (or not) of his writing from the fact that he had already sold Viaweb to Yahoo at that point. Surely that drew early founders to YC as well.

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