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>I admit to feeling a twinge of excitement last summer when I read that Paul Graham was leaving his jillion-dollar job to write more essays

rather apocryphal claim. I bet PG makes just as much money now as he did when he was running Y Combinator as most of his earnings are investment earnings, not salary from being Y Combinator President.

Sam's salary doesn't come out of Paul's pocket. It comes out of the management fees, of which, Paul's only charged a small part of.




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