# Paul Graham ## Metadata **Status**:: #x **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Created**:: [[2023-11-05]] ## Synopsis Paul Graham is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.