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

Milestones

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    Paul Graham — Named one of Time Magazine's top 25 most influential people on the web (2008) (9/30/08)
    Posted 9/30/08 at 11:34am
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    Paul Graham invested in WebMynd. (9/1/08)
    Posted 1/27/08 at 11:47pm
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    Paul Graham invested in AppJet. (8/07)
    Posted 11/18/08 at 8:43pm
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    Paul Graham added a position as Partner at Y Combinator.
    Posted 2/21/08 at 3:02pm
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    Paul Graham added a position as Partner.
    Posted 8/5/09 at 11:41am

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
WebMynd 9/08Angel$400k8
AppJet 8/07Angel$250k7

Sources

  1. The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
  2. VentureWire [edit]
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