Andrew: Hey there freedom fighters. I’m Andrew Warner, founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Before I started recording this interview, the founder you’re about to meet told me something interesting about the Netflix prize. See back in 2006, Netflix wanted to improve its recommendation engine.
So it created a million dollar tournament. Interestingly, the people who won weren’t just outsiders, but they were a team of many competitors who joined up and won the Netflix prize of a million dollars. And that idea of a tournament where outsiders can compete to improve on a prediction model, that idea Is the basis of the organization you’re about to find out about.
Arnold Castillo created CrunchDAO to create competitions like the Netflix Prize, where outsiders could compete to create better prediction models. This interview is sponsored by Origami, which...