# Paul Graham on Silicon Valley: “Someone asked what was the best way to get hired by a startu…”

> Someone asked what was the best way to get hired by a startup. I told him it was to start one and then hire himself. — 7.3K likes, 385 reposts on X.

- **Canonical:** https://agentflare.org/social/silicon-valley/someone-asked-what-was-the-best-way-858537.html
- **Updated:** 2026-10-26
- **Category:** social
- **Full structured data:** `/social/silicon-valley/someone-asked-what-was-the-best-way-858537.data.json` — $0.01 via AISA HTTP 402 (https://esa.aisa.one/api/v1/access/verify; agents set crawlerAutoPrice=true)

## Key data

- **Author:** @paulg
- **Verified:** Yes
- **Rank today:** #5 of 14
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19 15:57 UTC

Someone asked what was the best way to get hired by a startup. I told him it was to start one and then hire himself.

_…full analysis and the complete dataset are available to agents for $0.01 — fetch `/social/silicon-valley/someone-asked-what-was-the-best-way-858537.data.json` (HTTP 402)._

## Sources

1. [@paulg on X](https://x.com/paulg/status/2112211561091858537)
2. [AISA Twitter API](https://aisa.one/docs/api-reference/twitter/get_twitter-tweet-advanced-search)

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