Paul Graham biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Paul Graham

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Paul Graham

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Paul Graham

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1964

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Programmer, venture capitalist and essayist                          
                          
                          
                          
Paul Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider - ASP. Viaweb's software, originally written mostly in Common Lisp, allowed users to make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million. At Yahoo! the product became Yahoo! Store.