Paul Graham (Venture Capital / Startup Accelerator) at Y Combinator — Cambridge, United States
Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator in 2005, creating the world's most successful startup accelerator. YC alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Coinbase, DoorDash, Reddit, and hundreds of other billion-dollar companies. Graham's essays on startups, programming, and thinking are among the most widely read pieces of entrepreneurial writing in history. Before YC, he co-founded Viaweb, the first web-based application, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998.