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Why does the article say that Ben Hamner was involved in the founding in 2010? He joined years later. Some basic fact checking would be nice, even in tech artic
by jph00 10y ago
Why does the article say that Ben Hamner was involved in the founding in 2010? He joined years later. Some basic fact checking would be nice, even in tech articles...
(Ben has been a great contributor, mind you.)
- kornish 10y agoProbably because Crunchbase has Ben's title as "Co-founder & CTO", which is also what his LinkedIn says. It's not unheard of for people who came on ex-post facto to be offered cofounder titles to sweeten the deal or for other reasons (titles are cheaper than equity, I suppose). Edit: just rechecked and his LinkedIn notes Nov 2011 as the start date for Kaggle. Guess it was easier to condense it into one sentence than to explain the difference to TechCrunch's audience?
- redcalx 10y agoYeh as I recall Jeremy Howard was chief boffin at the start, and left some time later to start his own biomedical data analysis company (also in SF).