Paul Graham
Paul Graham (1964) is a programmer, venture capitalist and essayist. He is known for his work with Lisp, as co-founder of Viaweb (which later became Yahoo! Store), and as co-founder of the Y Combinator, a venture capital provider for starting companies. He is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & amp; Painters (2004).
In 1995 Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first Application Service Provider (ASP). With Viaweb's software, originally usually written in Common Lisp, users themselves could create their webshops. In the summer of 1998, Viaweb was sold to Yahoo for 455,000 Yahoo shares worth $ 49.6 million. The product changed its name to Yahoo! Store.
Since the beginning of his public career, Graham has written essays for his popular website paulgraham.com. They range from "How to Beat the Mean", which Lisp compares to other programming languages and introduced the word Blub, to "Why Nerds Are Not Popular", which describes the typical life of a nerd at high school. A collection of his essays has been published as Hackers & amp; Painters (ISBN 0-596-00662-4) at O'Reilly.
In 2005, after a lecture at the Harvard Computer Society, later published as "How do I start a business," Graham, together with Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and Robert Morris Y Combinator on startup companies or "startups" to finance, especially of younger, more technologically-oriented founders.
BusinessWeek has included Paul Graham in 2008 in her annual list of the 25 most influential people on the web. Graham obtained an MBA in Cornell in 1988, and in 1990 a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences (Specialized in Computer Science) in Harvard. He studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In 2008, Paul Graham married Jessica Livingston. Externe link
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