Paul Graham (@paulg) — Twitter Score 806 out of 1000

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and investor who co-founded Y Combinator in 2005 alongside Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. Paul Graham's Twitter Score is 806 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026.

Paul Graham co-founded Viaweb with Robert Morris in 1995, one of the first SaaS companies, which Yahoo acquired in 1998 and relaunched as Yahoo Store. He stepped down from his day-to-day role at Y Combinator in February 2014, appointing Sam Altman as president, and continues to be publicly identified as co-founder. He also launched Hacker News in February 2007, originally as a side project to test the Arc programming language and serve Y Combinator founders. Y Combinator accepted Coinbase into its Summer 2012 batch.

Paul Graham has commented publicly on cryptocurrency: in November 2022, he posted that someone he had known for more than ten years was convinced the cryptocurrency economy would shortly face systemic risk, adding he had no concrete details himself. In May 2026, he wrote that opposition to crypto had been a political own-goal and that crypto is "a legit and indeed inevitable technology." He ranks #64 (top 0.1%) among 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 3,900,533 followers as of July 2026 and 53,586 posts on record since 2010. He has been mentioned by 1,772 accounts, with 5,341 total mentions.

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