Paul Graham On Walking Into Ideas, The Test Of Good Writing, And Becoming A Connoisseur Of Bad Writing

Who: Paul Graham Claim To Fame: Paul Graham is a computer scientist, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on the programming language Lisp, for co-founding Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store), and for co-founding the Y Combinator seed capital firm. In 2001, he started publishing essays on paulgraham.com, which now gets around …