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There will be a few surprises in any system... But Yahoo ahead of Facebook, Amazon and Apple? Myspace ahead of Apple? Paul Graham is #943 among people? Cool project, even with the eyebrow-raising results.
Good luck, useful.
I miss attending events when a prior startup was based there.
I love the use of different-sized circles, but I feel like you're comparing apples to oranges in a way. I think the circles should all be relative to one master size (#1) only their own category; rather than comparing Ron Conway to Google his circle could be of equal size. This way when searching for entities their circles would make more sense because the user is aware of the consistent max circle size. By comparing Conway to Google you're giving up a wider scale you could be using for the Peoples' circles.
Still though, cool project. I found the 5-person startup I'm interning at this summer :) Makes for a great crash-course on who matters if someone were trying to study up on the startup scene.
Questions:
Dave McClure at #3, Paul Graham at #943; whereas 500 Startups is at #41, and Y Combinator is at #15?
Why is 500 Startups classified as a financial firm, whereas Y Combinator is classified as a company?
Also, I'm surprised that Andreessen Horowitz is ranked #67 of financial firms (given that Marc Andreessen is ranked #14), and Elon Musk is #119 for people. I would have thought they'd both be ranked much higher.
I like the interface design. Questions: Dave McClure at #3, Paul Graham at #943; whereas 500 Startups is at #41, and Y Combinator is at #15? Why is 500 Startups classified as a financial firm, whereas Y Combinator is classified as a company? Also, I'm surprised that Andreessen Horowitz is ranked #67 of financial firms (given that Marc Andreessen is ranked #14), and Elon Musk is #119 for people. I would have thought t…
In the data source, TechCrunch's Crunchbase, the influence of Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, et al. is captured in YC the company, and Marc Andreessen is split between his personal identity and AH. So you get a lot of odd things like that.
As for why YC got classified a company, who knows? It's accident of history. They should change it.
The "impartial algorithm" line was good for a laugh.