Paul Graham

British-American computer scientist, essayist, and co-founder of Y Combinator — the world's most influential startup accelerator — whose essays on startups, technology, and thinking are widely read across the technology industry.

Founded Y Combinator, which invented the modern seed accelerator model and funded Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, and hundreds of other companies — and wrote a body of essays on startups and thinking that became the intellectual foundation of Silicon Valley's self-understanding.