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Read/Write Web.

I think he's referring to their profile on you: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/paul_graham_profile.php

RWW refers to Read/WriteWeb (Richard's blog). I haven't read the article BitGeek is referring to but I am guessing, like most posts on R/WW, it was written by a guest author.

How about people with no university education?

Yes, we've funded people who've never been to college, along with a large number who didn't finish.

One of the best programmers I've ever met dropped out of high school (I believe he eventually got a GED). Now he's Director (but never stopped programming) of an entire department with a handful of CS PhDs under him.

Do you do background checks for criminal history or education? Are there any fixed requirements like this?

(Sorry for not asking all of this in my first post)

If we didn't allow people with criminal records, we would have had to exclude one of our own partners.

I'm starting to feel that the elusive, intangible rtm is but a legendary myth, like the griffin or the free lunch.