https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/paul-graham/Recent content in Paul Graham on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:43:33 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-founders/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:43:33 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-founders/Miro sold for $1.355B and Airtable for $1.285B this month, and both deals reveal that getting cash flow positive buys almost nothing at the finish line. The two companies held roughly $1.4B in cash between them, and buyers paid zero premium for it - growth rate was the only thing priced. Meanwhile Paul Graham argues startups should optimize for power, not profit, and LangChain open-sourced the agent that cut its cost per lead by 30%. Slack launched Slackforce Surfaces for prompt-built live dashboards, and a former Evernote engineer detailed Bending Spoons&rsquo; brutal post-acquisition playbook.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-founders/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:37:58 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-founders/Enterprise SaaS spending hit $55.7M/year on average while CIOs cut vendor counts and 79% saw surprise renewal increases, creating the pressure that&rsquo;s finally killing per-seat pricing. Paul Graham argues universities should teach building over entrepreneurship, Max Mullen gives a three-bucket framework for weighing investor advice, and PostHog&rsquo;s Charles Cook shows how established companies can re-find product-market fit against AI-native attackers. CopilotKit released OpenTag, a self-hosted LangGraph agent for Slack and Teams, while Apple quietly announced a domain migration for Sign in with Apple that engineers must handle before year-end.