Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, investor, and co-founder of the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm
Y Combinator. In 1995, he and Robert Morris started
Viaweb, the first software as a service company. Viaweb was acquired by
Yahoo in 1998, where it became Yahoo Store.
Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including
Stripe,
Airbnb, Cruise, PagerDuty, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, Flightfox, and Reddit.