James Grugett
FounderFounder at Freebuff
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedFreebuff Β· YC
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Javier SolterounlockedJames: together at Carnegie Mellon University (2010β2013)
Γ10James: together at Carnegie Mellon University
James: together at Marist School
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
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Experience
- FreebuffCofounder & CEOcurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Manifold MarketsCofounder & CEO2021 β 2024
- ThroneCofounder & CEO2018 β 2021Austin, Texas, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2016 β 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.
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Y Combinator mafia10,230
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Carnegie Mellon University mafia481
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Kai-Fu LeeResearch Computer Scientist / Assistant ProfessorFounded 01Lucy GuoComputer Science & Human-Computer InteractionsFounded Passes +1Guillaume LampleMaster's degreeFounded Mistral AIJoshua XuMaster's degreeFounded HeyGenJonathan RothbergBachelor of Science (BS)Founded Raindance Technologies +4Andrew NgBachelor of Science - BSFounded Factored +3
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Also attended Carnegie Mellon University632
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
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Also attended Marist School8
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 FundJess LeePartner and Chief Product Officer at Sequoia CapitalHunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at HomebrewAydin SenkutFounder & Managing Partner at FelicisLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalG
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Also worked at Microsoft1,853
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
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