Founder Stories

Paul is the founder or co-founder of these startups:

For Profits

1. Speed Games, a profitable game company I created in high school.
2. Xiangqi.com, Chinese Chess online, with over 20 million games played so far.
3. Boston Light Software, makers of QSHOP, sold to Intuit.
4. Intermute, makers of security and privacy software, sold to Trend Micro.
5. Kayak, a travel company, IPO in 2012, then sold to Booking.com.
6. GetHuman, a customer service company which has served over 200M people.
7. Lola Travel, a business travel and spend management company, sold to Capital One.
8. Moonbeam, a podcast player focused on podcast discovery, and interaction between hosts and listeners. Sold to Audacy.
9. Boston Venture Studio, a startup focused on building consumer technology startups.

In Development

1. Cambridge.com home maintenance contracts.
2. Wellagram shared wellness journal.
3. Third.org place to text chat online.
4. Blade.net personal mail merge.

Non-Profits

1. Summits, a network of 40 schools and 10,000 students in rural Haiti.
2. Winter Walk, annual walks for homelessness in Boston, New York, Chicago, etc.
3. Embrace Boston, a racial justice organization, based on the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
4. Bipolar Social Club, a peer support network of people with bipolar illness.
5. The Institute for Applied AI (UMASS Boston)
6. Boston Public AI

See also my startup advice.