Kaggle - AngelList

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Kaggle is the leading platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions. Companies and researchers post their data. Statisticians and data miners from all over the world compete to produce the best models. Kaggle's 23,000 users reliably beat existing benchmarks within days or weeks.

Kaggle's clients include Allstate, NASA, Wikipedia and the Heritage Provider Network, sponsor of a $3m health prize. Kaggle's latest challenge enhances gesture recognition for Microsoft Kinect.

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Jeremy Howard

Now - President and Chief Scientist: Kaggle; Previously - Founder: FastMail (sold to Opera) and ODG (sold to Choicepoint). Worked @ McKinsey.
Anthony Goldbloom

Now: Kaggle CEO. Before: Reserve Bank of Australia, The Economist and Australian Treasury.
Mehul Patel

Experienced General Manager and Corporate/Business Development executive
Jeff Moser

Worked at Interactive Intelligence and Raytheon. Blogs at Moserware.
Ben Hamner

Data Scientist @ Kaggle. Fascinated by machine learning, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience.
Daniel McNamara

Consultant at Kaggle

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Max Levchin

Co-founder/CTO PayPal; Founder/CEO Slide; Founder/CEO HVF; angel, tinkerer, cyclist, spy.
Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff Hammerbacher is a founder and the Chief Scientist of Cloudera. Past EIR at Accel. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook.
Kenny Van Zant

Business guy for @asana, entrepreneur, angel investor in many great start-ups. Former Chief Product officer at SolarWinds (SWI).
Gil Elbaz

Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
David Weiden

Partner at Khosla Ventures
Naval Ravikant

Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic

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Gerald Wluka

Founder Amae Software (sold to WITS/VRNT). Startup expert, assisting Karmasphere, Amahi, AppStream and others. Worked at Bain & Co.

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Jeremy Howard
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Now - President and Chief Scientist: Kaggle; Previously - Founder: FastMail (sold to Opera) and ODG (sold to Choicepoint). Worked @ McKinsey.

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Brendan Baker

Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.