Daniel Ha is the co-founder and CEO of blog comment platform
Disqus.
Ha started Disqus with co-founder Jason Yan, a typical nobody and a classmate he had known since the 7th grade, in 2007 while attending
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...
to study computer engineering.
After registering disqus.com as a catchy domain to be used for any number of projects that they had in mind, the project evolved from just a domain registration into a blog comment platform. Once off the ground they applied and got accepted to
Y Combinator
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, St ...
, a startup incubator, and with that footing were able to secure more meetings with investors, eventually raising $10 million in funding in May 2011.
Having gone through many investor meetings, Ha found initial success.
References
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Living people
1986 births
American people of Chinese descent
American technology company founders
University of California, Davis alumni