Buchheit worked for Intel, maker of the world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip, and went on to be Google’s 23rd employee. He was the co-founder of FriendFeed, a real-time feed aggregator which consolidates updates from social media and networking, but soon after FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook Buchheit left to become a partner in the investment firm Y Combinator, a venture capital company. In 2011, Buccheit won the Economist Innovation Award for the Computing and Telecommunications field.