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Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English computer scientist, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp, for co-founding Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store), and for co-founding the Y Combinator seed capital firm. He is the author of some programming books, such as: ''On Lisp'' (1993), ''ANSI Common Lisp'' (1995), and ''Hackers & Painters''〔 (2004). ==Biography== In 1996, 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. He later gained fame for his essays on his popular website paulgraham.com. Essay subjects range from "Beating the Averages",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beating the Averages )〕 which compares Lisp to other programming languages and introduced the hypothetical programming language Blub, to "Why Nerds are Unpopular",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why Nerds are Unpopular )〕 a discussion of nerd life in high school. A collection of his essays has been published as ''Hackers & Painters'' by O'Reilly, which includes a discussion of the growth of Viaweb and what Graham perceives to be the advantages of Lisp to program it. In 2001, Graham announced that he was working on a new dialect of Lisp named Arc. Over the years since, he has written several essays describing features or goals of the language, and some internal projects at Y Combinator have been written in Arc, most notably the Hacker News web forum and news aggregator program. 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 a large number of startups, particularly those started by younger, more technically oriented founders. Y Combinator has now invested in more than 400 startups, including Justin.tv, Xobni, Dropbox, Airbnb and Stripe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies )〕 In response to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Graham announced in late 2011 that no representatives of any company supporting it would be invited to Y Combinator's Demo Day events. BusinessWeek included Paul Graham in 2008 edition of its annual feature, ''The 25 Most Influential People on the Web''. In 2008, Paul Graham married Jessica Livingston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Graham (computer programmer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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