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Paul Graham

Cofounder, Viaweb

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Paul Graham and his friend Robert Morris started Viaweb in 1995 to make software for building online stores. A few days into writing the first prototype, they had a crazy idea: why not have the software run on the server and let the user control it through their browser?

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(2007). Paul Graham. In: Founders at Work. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0327-8_15

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