Paul Buchheit

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

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	FriendFeed Inc Social aggregator company that consolidates the updates from social media, social networking, and social bookmarking websites.
	Facebook Inc Social networking company.
	Google Inc American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.
	Y Combinator American technology startup accelerator.

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	Optimizely Inc	Developer of online A/B testing solutions	United States	18 Nov 2010	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	United States	1 Jun 2010	Seed
	Path Inc	Social networking site	United States	1 Nov 2010	Seed Initial investment Exited
	Rigetti & Co Inc (Rigetti Quantum Computing), (Rigetti Computing)	Quantum computing company.	United States	15 Apr 2014	Seed Initial investment
	Triplebyte	Technical recruiting platform for Y Combinator startups.		28 Sep 2015	Venture
	Hipmunk Inc		United States	1 Oct 2010	Seed
	Starcity Properties Inc	Well-designed, comfortable communal housing in San Francisco.	United States	31 Dec 2016	Seed Initial investment
	Y Combinator	American technology startup accelerator.	United States	1 Mar 2009	Venture Initial investment
	MemSQL Inc	Database management software company that removes the most common bottleneck most applications hit today: disk.	United States	1 Mar 2011	Seed Initial investment
	Weebly	Build a free website that grows with your business.	United States	1 May 2007	Seed
	280 North Inc		United States	1 Mar 2008	Seed
	Adioso Inc			1 Mar 2009	Seed
	RethinkDB	Database company optimized for flash storage.	United States		N/A
	Brex Inc	Corporate credit card company focused on startups.	United States	1 Apr 2017	Series A
	Auctomatic	Auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others.	United States		N/A Initial investment
	CarWoo Inc	Stress-free, organized way to shop multiple dealers to get a great deal on your new car.	United States	1 Jan 2010	Seed
	FrontApp Inc (Front)	Customer communications hub for building strong relationships.	United States	1 Oct 2014	Seed Initial investment

Trade sale

Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	1000memories (1000 memories)	1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past.	United States	16 Feb 2011	Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale