10 Facts About Paul Buchheit

Paul T Buchheit was born on November 7,1977 and is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created the email service Gmail.

Paul Buchheit developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail.

Paul Buchheit suggested Google's former company motto Don't be evil in a 2000 meeting on company values, after the motto was initially coined in 1999 by engineer Amit Patel.

Paul Buchheit attended the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he studied computer science and was part of the college's rowing crew.

Paul Buchheit worked at Intel and later became the 23rd employee at Google.

FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook in 2009 in a private transaction that resulted in Paul Buchheit being a Facebook employee.

In 2010, Paul Buchheit left Facebook to become a partner at the investment firm Y Combinator.

From 2006 until 2008, Paul Buchheit invested about $1.21 million in 32 different companies.

Paul Buchheit continues to oversee angel investments of his own in "about 40" startups and is active with Y Combinator.

Paul Buchheit won the 2011 The Economist innovation awards for the Computing and telecommunications field.