Mr Paul Buchheit
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KANDO id: 139814

Bio

Paul Buchheit is the creator of GMail. While at Google he also built the prototype for AdSense, and came up with Google's now famous slogan "Don't be evil." In 2007 he was one of the founders of Friendfeed, which in 2009 became Facebook's largest acquisition to date. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.


Career


Y Combinator

American technology startup accelerator.

Google Inc

American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.

Facebook Inc

Social networking company.

FriendFeed Inc

Social aggregator company that consolidates the updates from social media, social networking, and social bookmarking websites.

Education

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Stage focus
Top investment portfolio themes
YCS09 (2)  
YCW07 (2)  
B2B (2)  
YCS14 (2)  
YCS15 (1)  
YCW08 (1)  
banking (1)  
marketing (1)  
automotive (1)  
YCS10 (1)  

Actual initial investment stage
Seed (5)
Venture (1)
N/A (1)

Selected investments

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Profile Country Date Funding
280 North Inc Seed
Adioso Inc Seed
Auctomatic Auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others. N/A Initial investment
Brex Inc Corporate credit card company focused on startups. Series A
CarWoo Inc Stress-free, organized way to shop multiple dealers to get a great deal on your new car. Seed
FrontApp Inc (Front) Customer communications hub for building strong relationships. Seed Initial investment
Hipmunk Inc Seed
MemSQL Inc Database management software company that removes the most common bottleneck most applications hit today: disk. Seed Initial investment
Optimizely Inc Developer of online A/B testing solutions Seed
OwnLocal Provides Web-based software to local newspapers and gives them a white-label service for selling online ads and services to local businesses Seed
RethinkDB Database company optimized for flash storage. N/A
Rigetti & Co Inc (Rigetti Quantum Computing), (Rigetti Computing) Quantum computing company. Seed Initial investment
Starcity Properties Inc Well-designed, comfortable communal housing in San Francisco. Seed Initial investment
Triplebyte Technical recruiting platform for Y Combinator startups. Venture
Weebly Build a free website that grows with your business. Seed
Y Combinator American technology startup accelerator. Venture Initial investment
Path Inc Social networking site Seed Initial investment Exited
Trade sale
Profile Country Date Funding
1000memories (1000 memories) 1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past. Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale