Biography
Paul Buchheit is an American software engineer and investor best known as the creator of Gmail and the originator of Google's informal 'Don't be evil' motto, having been one of Google's earliest employees. He later co-founded the social network FriendFeed, which was acquired by Facebook, and he became a partner at the startup accelerator Y Combinator. He was among the individually named angel investors who participated in Reddit's 2014 financing round, alongside other prominent technology figures. Through Y Combinator he has been involved in funding and advising a wide range of early-stage companies. His participation in Reddit's 2014 round is documented in contemporaneous reporting that listed the individual investors backing the company at that stage, placing him among the named individuals with a financial stake in Reddit during its growth years before its eventual public listing.