Topcoder
company on 4 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2013
American Optimist 2 
Top Founders 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
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Scott Wu: Mark Zuckerberg was a TopCoder competitive programmer
“Mark Zuckerberg actually was a competitor on TopCoder. You can find his profile on TopCoder. He was a competitive programmer”
McAfee: A Topcoder challenge cut genome sequencing time to 10 seconds
“They had an algorithm that could do a run in about four hours with about 70% accuracy. There was a faculty member at Harvard Med School who made a big improvement to that algorithm. He developed one that got them up to about 75% accuracy. Kareem then worked wi…”