| Website | paulgraham.com |
| Blog | paulgraham.com/ar... |
| @paulg |
| 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.
Graham has a B.A. from Cornell. He earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences (specializing in computer science) from Harvard, and studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| ClassDojo | 8/12 | Seed | $1.6M | 10 |
| Trigger | 1/12 | Seed | $1M | 6 |
| webmynd | 9/08 | Angel | $400k | 11 |
| Octopart | 5/08 | Seed | $300k | 8 |
| AppJet | 8/07 | Angel | $700k | 8 |
| Infinity Box | 4/06 | Angel | $100k | 2 |