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Shared June 15, 2026

an animated video with voiceover for the following article:
https://paulgraham.com/earn.html

Here's your video — a landscape 16:9 animated piece on Paul Graham's How to Earn a Billion Dollars, with AI-generated background scenes, voiceover narration, and word-level captions throughout.

Let me know if you'd like any tweaks: different caption style, portrait format for Reels/TikTok, different voice tone, or shorter/longer cut.

keep the voice, create in motion graphics

Here's the motion graphics version — 68.6s, 1920×1080, with the original voiceover. It's structured as 6 animated scenes:

  1. YC & Intro — title card, animated counters (6,500+ companies, 30+ billionaires)
  2. Compounding — exponential curve drawing itself on screen
  3. The Math — "15% per month → $1,000,000,000 in 5 years"
  4. Startup Ideas — Apple / Google / Facebook staggered reveal with founding years
  5. Empathy — large kinetic "EMPATHY" with the ✗/✓ contrast
  6. Two Variables — rising bars for Growth Rate × Duration = $1B

Let me know if you'd like to tweak any scene, colors, pacing, or typography.