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Cambridge, MA

# Paul Graham

Programmer, writer, investor. Born 1964; Cornell undergrad, Harvard PhD in computer science. Co-founded Viaweb in 1995 (sold to Yahoo! for ~$50M in 1998 — became Yahoo! Store). Co-founded Y Combinator in 2005 with Jessica Livingston (his wife), Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. Funded Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Reddit, Coinbase, ~5,000 others. Still writing essays at paulgraham.com — How to Do Great Work (2023) and Founder Mode (2024) are the recent big ones. Lisp partisan; designed Arc (which runs Hacker News) and Bel.

[Essays](http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html) [Twitter / X](https://twitter.com/paulg) [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/) [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/) [How to Do Great Work](http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html) [Founder Mode](http://www.paulgraham.com/foundermode.html) [Arc](http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html)

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· Projects

## Things Paul is building

6 projects — each one is a separate landing page, links out below.

[◆ Featured project Y Combinator Seed accelerator co-founded with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell in 2005. Funded Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, Reddit, Coinbase, Doordash, Twitch, ~5,000 startups. The default for early founders. ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/)

[How to Do Great Work](http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html)

[Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/)

[Arc / Bel (Lisp dialects)](http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html)

[Founder Mode 2024 essay arguing that the standard 'hire good people and trust them' advice works only for a narrow set of 'good people' and that founders should stay involved deeper than they are told to. Coined a phrase that escaped the essay.](http://www.paulgraham.com/foundermode.html)

[Viaweb (acquired by Yahoo!) One of the first web applications: an online store builder. Acquired by Yahoo! in 1998 for ~$50M and became Yahoo! Store. Most of the early YC playbook was the Viaweb playbook, written down.](http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html)

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