About Anthony Goldbloom:
Anthony John Goldbloom is the founder and CEO of Kaggle, a Silicon Valley start-up which has used predictive modeling competitions to solve problems for NASA, Wikipedia, Ford and Deloitte. Kaggle has improved the state of the art across a range of fields, including mapping dark matter and HIV/AIDS research. Kaggle has received considerable media attention since it first launched in February 2010, particularly following news that it had received $11.25 million in Series A funding from a round led by Khosla Ventures and Index Ventures. Goldbloom has been cited by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 Under 30 in Technology, profiled by Fast Company as part of its 'Who's Next?' series and by the Sydney Morning Herald. Goldbloom has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent and has appeared on the Science Show Catalyst.
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
Anthony GoldbloomI think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.
Anthony GoldbloomCompanies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.
Anthony Goldbloom