https://conormclaughlin.net/tags/hacker-news/ Recent content in Hacker News on Conor McLaughlin Hugo en-us Sat, 03 Aug 2019 13:34:32 -0700 https://conormclaughlin.net/2019/08/who-are-startup-founders-profiling-backgrounds-and-educations/ Sat, 03 Aug 2019 13:34:32 -0700 https://conormclaughlin.net/2019/08/who-are-startup-founders-profiling-backgrounds-and-educations/ <p>While trawling through HackerNews on a recent afternoon, I stumbled upon an interesting dataset. Published by <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/firmai/startup-founder-valuations-dataset">FirmAI on Kaggle</a>, the data contained information on over five hundred startup founders, with nicely tagged and cleaned data detailing their past work and educational experiences.</p> <p>With the recent rise in &ldquo;unicorn&rdquo; startups elevating many of their founders and chief executives to near-mythic levels in the startup/venture capital world, I thought it might be fun to use this data to de-mystify who these founders really are!</p>