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Paul Graham

Programmer and essayist at paulgraham.com, author of Lisp books, co-founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator

  • Essayist, paulgraham.com1

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer and investor who has published essays on paulgraham.com since 2001. Paul is the author of the programming books On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp and the essay collection Hackers & Painters, and in 2019 published Bel, a Lisp dialect written in itself. Paul co-founded the software company Viaweb in 1995, which became Yahoo Store, and co-founded the startup incubator Y Combinator in 2005.1

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  • Co-founder, Y Combinator1
  • Co-founder, Viaweb1

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    Paul Graham — Bio (external site: paulgraham.com)

    Paul Graham · Official page · accessed Oct 17, 2026

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