High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Phillips (born August 9, 1972 in San Francisco, California) is an American entrepreneur and poker player.Phillips wrote the Boa web server while attending the University of California, San Diego, but no longer maintains it. In 1994, one of his colleagues at college discovered he had an interest in blackjack and subsequently introduced him to poker.In 1996 he became Chief Technical Officer for Go2Net. This success is the basis of his nickname Dot-com.Currently Phillips is heavily involved in the development of the Scala compiler and standard library.