Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged

Re:Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged by arthurcolle on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:39PM (#20844490)

Here's a little regex that matches most of these. If anyone wants to improve on it, go for it. Way too lazy to do this by hand. Inconsistent use of semi-colons & "and" mean it'll probably be hard to actually make it perfect, but oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Thanks for compiling the list though, this is good stuff.

([A-Za-z\s+]+{2})\(([0-9]+),\s+([A-Za-z0-9.\s+]+)\),

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Re:Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged by adventured on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:07AM (#20844560)

I've adjusted the list, cleaned it up. Should simplify the regex.

Each person segment is now separated by (ended by) a semicolon.

Commas are now only used to separate age from company name within parentheses.

Multiple companies by one person are separated by a vertical bar.

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Re:Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged by arthurcolle on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:57PM (#20849038)

Thanks! I noticed you silently fixed the "64 Workday" typo ;)

Here's a repo that has some code to transform the list into a .csv file. Having some trouble matching on the multi-company founders, which I could just deal with using code and not a regular expression, but a perfect regex would be fun haha.

https://github.com/arthurcolle/founders

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