The Y-Combinator Hustle: "Founder Mode," Tory Mob Controllers, Chinese Dirty Cash and Good Old Fashioned Fraud

“Founder Mode” is something done to Americans rather than for Americans.

Brian Chesky competing in 2001.

This is the last thing you see before Brian Chesky rapes the property market and Paul Graham says you deserved it because you weren’t a founder.

In reading the latest essay by Paul Graham on “Founder Mode” I’m surprised that I once thought well of Graham. He gets a lot wrong and I’ve become convinced that a lot of it isn’t just the cute errors of the professor manqué but something far more sinister.

Is Paul Graham a spy? If so, whose?

Well, the first thing to know about Graham is that he isn’t American — he’s a Tory. Sure he may have an American passport and his wife is American but Paul is a Tory. Tories are always pretending to be radical while being total squares or spies. They pretend to like America while hating it—and exploiting it.

Paul Graham with his parents

Graham’s father was a nuclear scientist; his grandfather worked at Scotland Yard — this is the pedigree of the British deep state that worked on the atomic bomb. Of course the real story you’re not supposed to talk about is that the Russians and the British stole the atom bomb together from the United States.

His now wife Jessica Livingston worked at Fidelity — the naughty Boston-Chinese financial firm ensconced with all matter of financial scandal. Fidelity’s Abigail Johnson (no relation) was often spotted in and around the town of Milton where I grew up. Boston is where a lot of the Chinese opium money ended up back in the day and the fentanyl today.

So much of the Silicon Valley game is selling you money laundering and pretending its technology.

If you look closely at the U.K.’s involvement in the Bay Area, you learn rather quickly what they are up to. Look at that figure for foreign owned enterprises!

If the British own all these assets in California then they’ll no doubt approve of AirBNB raising the prices of things.

Of course I’m sure all the money laundering through Airbnb properties has nothing to do with the housing shortage for young families.

All of the Airbnbs in the greater Los Angeles area

You can think of Airbnb as the place where the British and Chinese meet up over California real estate. Airbnb launched in California and its here that it has its worse effects.

The British have a pipeline from Jersey to California real estate and California tech. Sunak, who sunned himself in his Santa Monica pad, makes it too obvious. He had to go!

Both Chesky and Altman are disciples of Paul Graham. They are engaged in the same project — driving up costs on Americans.

Sam Altman is driving up energy; Brian Chesky is driving up housing costs. Both of these suit the Tory interests just fine.

Altman wants to pay for his fake AI by nuking up. Russia is, of course, the world’s largest producer of uranium and so that’s how he and the Tories and the Russians hope it will go.

It won’t go that way, of course.

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With Airnb, we sort of laughed,” said Jessica Livingston, 43, a Y Combinator co-founder [and Graham’s wife]. “We were all skeptical. But the founders were amazing. We funded them and didn’t look back. Now the biggest surprises are how big these companies get.”

That joke is at your expense, dear fellow American.

The Globe and Mail writes about the change:

[Protestors] “carried signs that read “Tourists go home” and “You are not welcome here.” The doors of some short-term rental apartments were plastered with stickers that said, “A family used to live here.”

This is Livingston’s and Graham’s real legacy. It’s something that they are deeply concerned about going more mainstream. Once I train you to spot these hustles their shtick collapses.

The world is a much easier place if you know that Paul Graham was the spotter for moving hot Russian and Chinese cash. If you’re so chosen — and you won’t be because you’re American — you get in “founder mode.”

There aren’t any sons of the American Revolution who are Y Combinator alumni. There aren’t any Howard alumni either. Why is that?

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I like to tell an alternate history of Y-Combinator which I think is much closer to the mark than the fairy tale that Graham and his boosters tell. I think it was a joint British-Chinese operation to use the sons of immigrants to attack the American middle class and launder Chinese and Russian money after the fall of the Soviet Union.

It starts with Graham’s company, Viaweb, being acquired by Yahoo.com in 1998 — less than a year after the British handed over control of Hong Kong to the Chinese government and three years after he started the company with Robert Morris, the disgraced criminal son of Robert Morris Sr. of the National Security Agency. The elder Morris served as the chief scientist of the NSA's National Computer Security Center. No one would look too closely at Y-Combinator if Graham had that sort of social proof!

I’ve long suspected that this Viaweb-Yahoo acquisition was about putting money in Graham’s pocket.

First a little bit about Yahoo. Let’s turn to Wikipedia.

Yang met Alibaba founder Jack Ma in 1997 during Yang's first trip to China. Ma, a government-employed tour guide and former English teacher, gave Yang a tour of the Great Wall of China. The two hit it off and discussed the growth of the Web. Ma created Alibaba several months later. A 1997 photo of Yang and Ma at the Great Wall still hangs on the wall in Alibaba's Hangzhou office.^[4]

For the longest time Jack Ma denied that he was a Communist Party member but it turns out that he was always a Communist Party member.

In 2005 [— the very same year that Y Combinator was founded] — Yang began the purchase of Alibaba stock.

At his direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo! purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million.^[4] In 2012, Yahoo! sold a portion of its stake in Alibaba for $7.6 billion.^[12] The company made an additional $9.4 billion in Alibaba's 2014 IPO.^[13] Eric Jackson, the founder of hedge fund Ironfire Capital, called Yahoo!'s investment in Alibaba "the best investment an American company has ever made in China," and stated, "Jerry deserves enormous credit for that."^[12]

Maybe. Or maybe Yang got recruited by the Chinese and this money is his pay off.

In any event by 2014 Graham had handed his business over to Sam Altman, the son of a St. Louis real estate man, who proceeded to scale it all up by going to the largely Jewish investment community at endowments and pension funds. Altman is quite close to the Kushners.

Graham, for his part, ran away to the U.K. where he lives to this day.

Isn't it interesting that Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston moved back to the U.K. right after Brexit passed?

Or that Brexit architect Dominic Cummings advised Sam Altman’s own putative bid for California governor?

Maybe if you want to attack a country you use the hopes and aspirations of immigrant children. You use, abuse and misuse the meritocratic immigrant and turn them into a rent seeker. You lie and say this is “technological progress,” but everyone knows it is not.

In this way, it’s a sort of final victory over the American dream and over the American founding. You call your pawns “founders” as if to replace the American founders who set up the country in the first place. If you didn’t succeed, well, maybe you weren’t in “founder mode.”

You weren’t enough like the sainted Steve Jobs. Of course Graham leaves out Steve Jobs’s copious ties to the CIA and to George H.W. Bush and to all manner of covert operations that Jobs did at the behest of the country he loved.

You wouldn’t want people to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason people are successful in technology is that they are crewed up.

After all, if young people figured that out, maybe they’d start to ask about your ties to foreign intelligence and that would be pretty awkward wouldn’t it Paul?