Paul Graham

Computer Scientist, Venture Capitalist, & Essayist; Co-Founder of Y Combinator

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Paul Graham Biography

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and investor. In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first software as a service company. Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998, where it became Yahoo Store. In 2001 he started publishing essays on paulgraham.com, which in 2015 got 34 million page views. In 2005 he and Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell started Y Combinator, the first of a new type of startup incubator. Since 2005 Y Combinator has funded over 1000 startups, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.

Paul is the author of On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

Paul Graham Videos

  • A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston
  • Mr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no ...
  • Fireside Chat with Paul Graham - YouTube

Paul Graham Books

  • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
    Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
  • A Shimmer of Possibility
    A Shimmer of Possibility
  • ANSI Common LISP
    ANSI Common LISP
  • On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
    On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

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