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Richard Waters is the West Coast Editor for the Financial Times and covers the technology industry.Previously, Waters was based in the FT’s New York office for nine years.In 2004, Waters was awarded Corporate Finance Reporter of the year for his coverage of Google’s IPO. Waters... Read More →

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and investor. In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first software as a service company. Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998, where it became Yahoo Store. In 2001 he started publishing essays on paulgraham.com, which in 2011 got 17 million page views. In 2005 he and Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell started Y Combinator, the first of a new type of startup incubator. Since 2005 Y Combinator has funded over 450 startups, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit... Read More →