http://art.sy is looking for a programmer, I figured Pders are hackers who like art. Tell him I sent you:
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Carter Cleveland carter@art.sy To: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Subject: Re: info Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:16:26 -0500
Hi -- My name is Carter Cleveland and I'm the technical founder of Art.sy, a startup with the goal of disrupting and expanding the fine art market using AI technology (we've dubbed it the Art Genome Project).
I would like to tell you a little bit about Art.sy and explore the possibility of working together. The information in this email is confidential and I would be grateful if you did not share it.
After bootstrapping our way to a proof-of-concept prototype, we recently raised funding from some incredible investors (TechCrunch article here) including Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google), Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder), Founder Collective (Chris Dixon, Zach Klein), Alexis O'Hanian (Reddit founder), Charlie Cheever (Quora founder), Dave Morin (Path founder), Jim Breyer (named the no.1 tech investor in the world by Fortune Magazine), Wendi Murdoch (NewsCorp), Dasha Zhukova (one of the biggest art collectors in the world, former editor of Pop Magazine, fashion model), and -- most importantly -- some of the most influential figures in the art world (whose names have to be kept private for now). As a first time entrepreneur, it’s been a _very_ surreal experience :).
But here’s why I’m really excited: with our investors unique personal networks, we've managed to sign on many major art galleries and institutions that have traditionally refused to go online. These unique partnerships will allow us to aggregate art world information in a way that has never before been possible. Although artificial intelligence has been around for a long time, we will be the first to get to apply it -- and many other exciting technologies, such as computer vision -- to this large and rich data set of important artworks.
Today the fine art world is the last major industry yet to be disrupted by technology. And for me, Art.sy represents a once in a lifetime opportunity to create that disruption on a global and historic scale.
But to do so, we need a Lead Developer to take our boot-strapped prototype to the next level. To be clear, this role is one of the most senior in the company, but is not ‘managerial’ -- you will be coding or working with me on product 95% of the time.
I’m sure you are busy, but I would love the opportunity to speak further with you about our business, our culture, and the possibility of working together.
If you are not interested, I would be extremely grateful if you had any ideas for who else might be a good fit. I know that great engineers tend to hang out together :).
Either way, best of luck with your ventures! Carter @carterac | carter@art.sy | 646.267.7570
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Art.sy, a just-funded NYC startup, seeks Lead Developer (willing to re-locate)
In a sentence, Art.sy is Pandora for the fine art world. We use artificial intelligence to expose collectors -- experienced and inexperienced alike -- to beautiful works of art they would never otherwise have discovered. Our goal is to disrupt the existing fine art market, and expand it to the 99.9% of Americans who don’t buy fine art but instead buy reproductions and mass-produced prints.
We recently raised funding from some incredible investors including Thrive Capital, Founder Collective, Eric Schmidt, Jack Dorsey, Wendi Murdoch, Dasha Zhukova, and Jim Breyer. We would love for you to join us and help take Art.sy to the next level.
The role:
Art.sy is looking for an extremely passionate, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial Lead Developer to join our core team. This is one of our most senior positions and you will help shape both our cultural DNA and our vision for the future. Your responsibility: turn that vision into code.
Our web application is built in jQuery on top of Zend (an MVC + OO LAMP framework for PHP), and our artificial intelligence algorithms are in a Java web service. But specific languages aren't as important to us. Our philosophy is simple: hire the best people -- languages are just tools to an end. We are particularly interested in people with diverse passions such as writing, design, machine learning, graph theory, computer vision, non-relational databases, stand-up, and meditation. You get the idea.
You must: 1. Have built and scaled web applications (ideally in an MVC PHP framework). 2. Be hungry for a core role with a lot of independence. 3. Have cool projects already under your belt that you can point to. 4. Enjoy working with teams and feel comfortable in a leadership role. 5. Have an appreciation for beautiful design and the user experience. Send your resume to carter@art.sy.
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
hey carter, it was good meeting you last night. If you send me a job description, I can forward it around to the various places I know for creative technologists.
.hc
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