Paul Graham Will No Longer Lead Y Combinator

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startup school yc mark zuckerberg paul grahamPaul Graham is stepping down from his day-to-day role at the startup accelerator he co-founded, Y Combinator. Sam Altman, who has been a partner at Y Combinator, will be taking over for Graham.

Y Combinator has found and funded billion-dollar startups such as Airbnb and Dropbox.
Graham says his decision came down to the need for Y Combinator to scale.
"It has nothing to do with the current startup environment," Graham told Business Insider of his decision. "I started trying to recruit Sam to take over back in 2012...I'm just not much good at running the sort of (comparatively) large organization YC is going to have to become.  Sam will be much better at that.
Graham will stay on as an advisor and he'll work with startups during YC's office hours.
Here's the blog post Graham just published:

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