25 year old developer and startup guy living in SF
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Hosted on a 4GB (ve).Howdy, I'm Paul (but most people call me Stammy). I am a 25 year old developer, designer, technology aficionado, startup guy or whatever else you want to call me. All I know is that I love learning and working with new technology. I am currently working on my third startup, Picplum, and went through the S11 class of the Y Combinator startup incubator.
I was previously Co-Founder of Notifo, a Y Combinator software startup building a mobile notifications platform. I do everything from web and UI/UX design, front-end development and product design to marketing. I wouldn't have it any other way. Learn about the tools and services I use on a daily basis on my Stuff I Use page.
I am a citizen of both the United States and Greece, the latter of which tried their best to conscript me to the army. I was born in Houston and moved to Atlanta in 2004 to get my Bachelor's in Computational Media from Georgia Tech. After graduating with honors in 2008, I stuck around to work on my first startup, Skribit, which had received funding from the Georgia Tech Edison Fund. In May 2010, I sold all of my possessions and left Georgia with six figures of debt (out-of-state tuition, yuck!) and drove to San Francisco to live near friends and seek out new opportunities. You can read all about my journey in Atlanta to San Francisco: What I Learned Moving Cross-Country.
Technology is my passion. I started with hardware when I was young, designing and building small circuits for fun; I built a PBASIC-coded small autonomous robot for my 7th grade science fair project and an alarm system complete with infrared motion detection for my 8th grade science fair project. I progressed to building, modifying and overclocking computers. I once held a top 20 spot for fastest computer in the 3DMark01 benchmarking suite and had won numerous case modding and timed PC building contests. Around the time that I entered college, I started realizing the power of the web and turned my interests towards the Internet and web applications.
I started this blog in 2005 to share my knowledge of technology with others and learn from readers. It has grown substantially since its humble beginnings as a small blog hosted on a Mac Mini in Georgia Tech's Woodruff dorms and has seen months with 500,000 pageviews. PaulStamatiou.com focuses on technology that interests me personally and generally focuses on reviews, tutorials and editorials about whatever is bouncing around in my mind at the moment.
When away from the computer I enjoy getting an adequate amount of Vitamin D outdoors or getting my heart rate up in the gym. I also tend to indulge in cooking on the weekends when I have the time to prepare a nice cut of meat. When I want to take my mind off things and relax I love shifting gears and listening to the turbocharger spool and blow-off around the hilly parts of San Francisco. I currently drive a JCW edition MINI, used to drive a heavily modified V8 Mustang and have been in or driven everything from a 500HP RX-7 and Ferrari F430 to a Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 and Audi R8.
