| Cornell, BA | 1986 |
| Harvard, MS | 1988 |
| Applied Sciences | |
| Harvard, Ph.D. | 1990 |
| Ph.D. |
Garry Tan / http://garry.posterous.com
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.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| AppJet | 8/07 | Angel | $250k | 7 |
| Justin.TV | 5/07 | Seed | 6 |
