Paul Buchheit is an angel investor and former Managing Partner at Y Combinator. See portfolio and contact routes.
Paul Buchheit is an angel investor and former Managing Partner at Y Combinator, where he joined after leaving Facebook following its 2009 acquisition of his startup FriendFeed[1][8]. He was employee #23 at Google, where he created Gmail and coined the company’s “Don’t be evil” motto[3][10]. Buchheit focuses on early-stage startups, particularly in developer tools, infrastructure, AI, marketplaces, and media/content, with a strong preference for Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area[2][12]. He typically invests as an angel across 200+ companies, favoring products that feel like “magic” and founders who obsess over details[9][12]. His portfolio includes notable companies such as Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Dropbox, and Twitch, which sold to Amazon for $970 million[2][12]. Buchheit emphasizes investing in platforms rather than features and looks for even tiny early traction as a signal of potential[12]. He has publicly stated that execution is everything and that he backs founders who mirror Google’s product culture of intense detail[12].
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