Paul Buchheit Biography

Paul Buchheit co-founded the social network FriendFeed in 2006 after leaving Google with three other former coworkers. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008. He was the 23rd employee at Google where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense and was responsible for Google's famous “Don't be evil motto in a meeting. FriendFeed, which was launched in 2007 and was acquired by Facebook in 2009. A year later Paul left Facebook to become a partner at the investment firm Y Combinator.

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