Who is the Steve Jobs of the prediction market industry?
Chris F. Masse August 4th, 2008
The award goes to… the envelope, please…
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John Delaney and Emile Servan-Schreiber are good, but they are too much ignorant of information technology.
Adam Siegel and David Perry are too much focused on their internal process.
BetFair seems to be a consensual machine. It’s not a place for heroes.
David Pennock is an admirable man and a great research scientist, but he is an ambulatory marketing disaster.
As for Robin “High IQ” Hanson, he is a great inventor (MSR), but he has not proved yet that he is a great innovator.
His little fanboy, Chris Hibbert, is a great software architect, but he is totally impermeable to pleasantry. [I completely forgot to tell you that that was my criterion #1.
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I believe you are deliberately feeding my megalomania!
@Nigel Eccles: Great. Europeans are too humble. Which is why all the great startups are in the Silicon Valley.