Tag Archives: Barney Pell
Robin Hanson’s buddy in the Silicon Valley strikes it rich.
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PowerSet sold to the Evil Empire for $100 million.
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UPDATE: Interview.
UPDATE: ValleyWag.
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Barney Pell, then an “Enterpreneur In Residence” for a VC, co-founded PowerSet and became its first CEO —and then moved on to another position at PowerSet. (Barney Pell was probably a minority investor in PowerSet.)
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In a 2005 blog post, comes the explanation on how the [...]
HISTORY: Prediction Markets Timeline
For an updated version of this document, see the “paged” Prediction Markets Timeline.
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CHRONOLOGY & HISTORY: Prediction Markets Timeline
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Feel free to post a comment or contact me, and I’ll correct or add a factoid. Thanks.
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#1. Historical Prediction Markets
According to Paul Rhode and Koleman Strumpf, prediction markets almost never got it wrong forecasting the 19 presidential elections [...]
I think Robin’s being too hard on himself.
That’s what I was told by someone who knows him [Robin Hanson] for more than just years.
So I figured out I should write up a little something, especially since I saw this morning that my previous blog post (Is GMU professor Robin Hanson an inventor, an innovator, or… a complete loser??) was yesterday’s most downloaded [...]
Prediction markets-friend Barney Pell is involved in the next Google, “PowerSet”.
PowerSet will blow away Google, the buzz goes, because this brand-new search engine has mastered the natural language search. Here’s Barney Pell’s account of the blogosphere’s comments on the unveiling of PowerSet’s business plan.
My Question: Do you see any kind of connection between natural language search and prediction markets?
Addendum (November 7): In a 2005 blog [...]
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