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Cornell, BA 1986
Harvard, MS 1988
Applied Sciences
Harvard, Ph.D. 1990
Ph.D.

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Paul Graham

Paul Graham is a partner at Y Combinator.

He is also the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
WebMynd 9/08Angel$400k8
AppJet 8/07Angel$700k7
Infinity Box 4/06Angel$100k2

Sources

  1. The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
  2. VentureWire [edit]
  3. Citation Needed [add]
  4. How Wufoo Turned A Profit In 9 Months By Selling Slick, Simple Forms – with Kevin Hale (mixergy.com) [edit]
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