Paul Graham

Co-founder, Y Combinator

Paul Graham is a co-founder of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator he started in 2005 with Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and Robert Morris, and he stepped back from its day-to-day work in 2014. He co-founded Viaweb in 1996, which Yahoo bought in 1998, writes essays on startups and programming, and has backed Replit since its 2018 seed round.