I always believed paulg was way ahead of his time.

- LISP over C++/Java

- The first ever web app in Viaweb

- The first ever startup accelerator

- Check this talk from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI; a lot of today's most impressive cos Superhuman, Lambda School, Netflix happen to emerge mysteriously from the talk as is.