Paul graham artist biography

English programmer, venture capitalist, and writer (born 1964)

Paul Graham (; born November 13, 1964)^[3] is an English-American computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor.

His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News.

Paul graham artist biography

He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp,^[4]ANSI Common Lisp,^[5] and Hackers & Painters.^[6] Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".^[7]

Graham was born in England, where he and his family have maintained a permanent residence since 2016.

He is also a citizen of the United States, where he attended all of his schooling and lived for 48 years prior to returning to England.

Education and early life

Graham a