Paul Graham
Also known as paulg
Programmer and essayist; co-founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator.
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- Paul Graham is an English-American programmer, essayist and investor.
- He co-founded Viaweb with Robert Morris; Yahoo bought it in 1998 and it became Yahoo Store.
- He has published essays on paulgraham.com from 2001.
- In 2005 he co-founded Y Combinator with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell.
- He stepped down from its day-to-day running in February 2014.
Key facts
- Born
- 13 November 1964, Weymouth, England2
- Studied
- Cornell (AB, philosophy, 1986); Harvard (PhD, computer science, 1990); painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence2
- Viaweb
- Started in 1995 with Robert Morris; bought by Yahoo in 19981
- Y Combinator
- Co-founded in 2005; it has funded over 3,000 startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe and Reddit1
- Lisp dialects
- Arc, released 29 January 2008 and used to write Hacker News; Bel, 20192
- Books
- On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), Hackers & Painters (2004)1
- Family
- Married Jessica Livingston in 2008; they have lived in England from 20162
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