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Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.

He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google’s famous “Don’t be evil” motto.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Y Combinator 3/09Unattributed$2M4
ReMail 1/09Seed3
FriendFeed 2/08Series A$5M3
AppJet 8/07Angel$700k7
Auctomatic 2007Angel$400k2
Infinity Box 4/06Angel$100k2
Loomia 6/05Seed$1M6

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  1. Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Y Combinator’s ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  6. How Wufoo Turned A Profit In 9 Months By Selling Slick, Simple Forms – with Kevin Hale (mixergy.com) [edit]
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