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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 11 Apr 2019

    Congratulations Alex, Andrew, and Baskar on PagerDuty's IPO! When PagerDuty did YC in back in summer 2010, I used to write an email to TechCrunch explaining each startup when it launched. Here's what I wrote about them:pic.twitter.com/6O3CkBKTWr

    8:41 AM - 11 Apr 2019
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    • Mitesh👾 Brian Yu Simon Yilun Wang Momcilo Patrick Reynolds Alex Calixte John Wetzel Jordan Brown Gieoon
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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 11 Apr 2019

        Investors who talked to me on Demo Day used to be surprised that I had such a detailed understanding of what all the companies were doing. But it wasn't surprising when you consider I'd basically written a short essay about each one.

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      2. 𝚄𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚑‏ @udayrsingh 11 Apr 2019
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        This is awesome. I’d love to see a thread of these. When did it become too difficult to do this?

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      3. 𝚄𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚑‏ @udayrsingh 11 Apr 2019
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        (I wasn’t clear on what I meant by difficulty, I was implying - when did it become too difficult to write these blurbs out for companies given the growth of YC batch size)

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      2. Stuart‏ @stuart_abc 11 Apr 2019
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        What year did you switch from double space after sentences to single space?

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      1. Tom Loverro‏ @tomloverro 11 Apr 2019
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        Congrats. Awesome. Spot on minus the part about monitoring being a solved problem at the time. Turns out both were incredible opportunities.

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      1. Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan ✪‏ @Viruthagiri 11 Apr 2019
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        That's one hell of a description. Some people are really good at absorbing and conveying things clearly. I bet your writing experience contributed to such skills.

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      2. ice9‏ @__ice9 11 Apr 2019
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        I do this with a 100-line Python script and some email to SMS gateways, but sure ok.

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      3. Sandro Hawke‏ @sandhawke 11 Apr 2019
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        I was doing that long before Python or SMS existed (using things that were pretty much the same). Yep.

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      1. Ulrich Sossou‏ @sorich87 11 Apr 2019
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        Wow! Can you share more of these emails?

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