Salesforce.com Announces Two $1 Million Winning Teams for Hackathon

Re:Salesforce.com Announces Two $1 Million Winning Teams for... by jere on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:57PM (#6836856)

First place:

>Upshot was created by Thom Kim, who left Salesforce after nine years in Janauary, and Joseph Turian, with whom Kim had been friends since they attended Harvard University together.

Oh that sounds fishy? As a concession, we'll just award another million to 2nd place. Oh, who is second place?

>Fisher and Oliveros are employees working at Taptera, a San Francisco-based startup that received $2 million in August of 2011 from Salesforce and other investors in a Series A round of financing.

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Re:Salesforce.com Announces Two $1 Million Winning Teams for... by eli on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:02PM (#6836883)

shrug

This doesn't strike me as inherently scandalous.

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Re:Salesforce.com Announces Two $1 Million Winning Teams for... by jere on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:35PM (#6837088)

Scandalous, no. The part that bothers me is that an event, presumably designed to introduce new developers to their platform, seems impossible to win unless you're either a) directly associated with the company or b) make a living developing for the company's platform already.

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Re:Salesforce.com Announces Two $1 Million Winning Teams for... by sbisker on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:50PM (#6837193)

Are you sure that was the design of this hackathon? I was more under the impression it was to incentive their entire developer base, not simply to encourage new adoption.

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