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10,314 people in our graph share verified history with James — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
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James: together at YC F24
James: together at Marist School
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About
James Grugett founded Manifold Markets, a prediction market platform with over 150,000 user-created markets. He is now building Codebuff, an AI-powered CLI tool for code generation.
Founder at FreebuffYC F24
Intro paths
YC
James went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Experience
- FreebuffCofounder & CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Manifold MarketsCofounder & CEO2021 — 2024
- ThroneCofounder & CEO2018 — 2021Austin, Texas, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2016 — 2018Mountain View, California, United States
- MicrosoftSDE Intern2013Greater Seattle Area
Skills & more
Distributed Systems1Java3C#2C++2HTML1
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is James Grugett?
- James Grugett founded Manifold Markets, a prediction market platform with over 150,000 user-created markets. He is now building Codebuff, an AI-powered CLI tool for code generation.
- Where does James Grugett work?
- James Grugett is Founder of Freebuff.
- What companies did James Grugett found?
- James Grugett founded Freebuff.
- Where did James Grugett go to school?
- James Grugett studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science); Marist School.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,522
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Carnegie Mellon University mafia545
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Kai-Fu LeeResearch Computer Scientist / Assistant ProfessorFounded 01Lucy GuoComputer Science & Human-Computer InteractionsFounded Passes +1Guillaume LampleMaster's degreeFounded MistralJoshua XuMaster's degreeFounded HeyGenJonathan RothbergBachelor of Science (BS)Founded Raindance Technologies +4Andrew NgBachelor of Science - BSFounded Factored +3
Same school
Also attended Carnegie Mellon University751
Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AILucy GuoCo-founder of Scale AI; founder & CEO of PassesGuillaume LampleCo-founder & Chief Scientist of Mistral AIJoshua XuCo-founder & CEO of HeyGenJavier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel Capital
+ 745 more
Also attended Marist School9
Austin SummersSenior Vice President at ClearSkyJonah CashdanVice President at Bain Capital Life SciencesChris CathcartInvestor at Amulet Capital Partners, LPJohn HermanAssociate at W Capital PartnersOwen BurdenAssociate, TAA at ShorelineJoey ParisVice President, Private Equity at Satori Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at Manifold Markets1
Also worked at Google2,000
Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBrian SingermanCo-founder of GPx; Partner Emeritus at Founders FundHunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at HomebrewAydin SenkutFounder & Managing Partner at FelicisLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalGArash FerdowsiCo-founder of Dropbox
+ 1,994 more
Also worked at Microsoft2,000
Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorNat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGKai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft; Chair of the Gates FoundationMike KriegerCo-founder of Instagram; Chief Product Officer at Anthropic
+ 1,994 more