Paul Graham is currently part of the venture capital firm “Y Combinator“, who provides seed funding for web based startups. In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

About Y Combinator:

“Y Combinator does seed funding for startups. We fund startups in two batches a year, one in winter in Silicon Valley, and one in summer in Cambridge. We’re the right choice for a group of two or three young hackers who have an idea, and want some money and advice to get it launched.”
source: ycombinator.com

About Graham:

“…In 2005, after giving a talk at the Harvard Computer Society later published as How to Start a Startup, Graham along with Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and Robert Morris started Y Combinator to provide seed funding to startups, particularly those started by younger, more technically-oriented founders. Y Combinator has now invested in 38 startups, including reddit, Justin.tv and loopt.

Graham has an B.A. in philosophy from Cornell. He also earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences, (specializing in computer science) from Harvard in 1988 and 1990 respectively, and studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.”
(Source: wikipedia)

Related:
http://www.paulgraham.com (which got 9.7 million page views in 2006)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/02/an-interview-with-vc-paul-graham-of-ycombinator/
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail188.html

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