TOP TEN 05 Paul Buchheit
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Wei Guo
No . of investments : 148
Capital in : tbh , YesGraph , Worklife , VetPronto , Verbling , TalkIQ One of China ’ s most prolific startup investors , Wei Guo has backed numerous companies through his firm Wei Fund . He later launched Uphonest , his $ 50m second investment fund . Guo ’ s exits already include Scout , Chariot , Worklife , Virtroid and tbh . One of his main goals is to help companies globalise their operations .
Guo is listed as a Forbes 30 under 30 investor whose portfolio includes startups such as Lime and Boom and several companies based in North America and China .
Capital in : reMail , lvl5 , Zesty , Wufoo , Weebly , Virool , URX With an estimated personal fortune of $ 600m , Paul Buchheit is the American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created Gmail . Bucheit also developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail .
Along with three other former Google employees , he then co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed .
He now runs Y Combinator Core and decided to shift his focus towards angel investing following FriendFeeds acquisition by Facebook in 2008 .
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