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First place: >Upshot was created by Thom Kim, who left Salesforce after nine years in Janauary, and Joseph Turian, with whom Kim had been friends since they at
by jere 13y ago
First place:
>Upshot was created by Thom Kim, who left Salesforce after nine years in Janauary, and Joseph Turian, with whom Kim had been friends since they attended Harvard University together.
Oh that sounds fishy? As a concession, we'll just award another million to 2nd place. Oh, who is second place?
>Fisher and Oliveros are employees working at Taptera, a San Francisco-based startup that received $2 million in August of 2011 from Salesforce and other investors in a Series A round of financing.
- eli 13y agoshrug This doesn't strike me as inherently scandalous.
- jere 13y agoScandalous, no. The part that bothers me is that an event, presumably designed to introduce new developers to their platform, seems impossible to win unless you're either a) directly associated with the company or b) make a living developing for the company's platform already.
- sbisker 13y agoAre you sure that was the design of this hackathon? I was more under the impression it was to incentive their entire developer base, not simply to encourage new adoption.