Robert Morris

Robert Morris appears in Trevor Blackwell on Viaweb, Robots, and Early Y Combinator as Trevor Blackwell’s Harvard peer and a bridge between Blackwell and Paul Graham. Blackwell says he and Morris had the same advisor and nearby offices; when Graham asked who the best programmer in the program was, Morris pointed to Blackwell.

The source also places Morris inside the early Viaweb and Y Combinator circle. He helped assess whether applicants’ technology could work during the first YC application cycle, making him part of the practical technical judgment behind Startup Accelerator Batch Selection.

Connections

• Trevor Blackwell and Paul Graham - Harvard and Viaweb connection.
• Viaweb - shared startup context.
• Y Combinator and Startup Accelerator Batch Selection - early application-review context.
• Founder-Investor Learning - broader Viaweb-to-YC pattern.