Paul Graham
Sign in to saveEnglish-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-11-13 ) November 13, 1964 (age 61) , Weymouth, Dorset , England
- Citizenship
- British American
- Education
- Cornell University ( BA ), Harvard University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Viaweb , Y Combinator , Hacker News , Hackers & Painters
- Spouse
- Jessica Livingston ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 )
- Fields
- Computer science
- Thesis
- The State of a Program and Its Uses (1990)
- Website
- paulgraham .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Family name
- Graham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Weymouth
- Spouse
- Jessica Livingston
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- Cornell University
- Employer
- Yahoo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Y Combinator
- Field of work
- venture capital
- Official website
- paulgraham.com
- Image
- Paulgraham 240x320.jpg
- Work location
- Silicon Valley
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- date of birth
- 1964-11-13
- different from
- Paul Graham
- Commons category
- Paul Graham (programmer)
- web feed URL
- www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss
- name in native language
- Paul Graham
- social media followers
- 25287
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Graham (/ɡræm/; born November 13, 1964) is an English-American computer scientist, writer, essayist, entrepreneur and investor. His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News.
He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters. Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".
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