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Robin Hanson’s buddy in the Silicon Valley strikes it rich.

- PowerSet sold to the Evil Empire for $100 million. – UPDATE: Interview. UPDATE: ValleyWag. – 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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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