The company recently relocated from San Francisco to Boulder and here's a fun fact about co-founder Paul McReynolds, from his LinkedIn profile: He's a Hollywood consultant who coached actor Jesse Eisenberg on coding and tech terms when Eisenberg starred as Mark Zuckerberg in the film, 'The Social Network.' McReynolds even played a part in the movie: he was Eisenberg's hand-double during certain typing scenes.īelow is a screen grab showing what Conspire looks like. And it could be a great alternative to LinkedIn for introductions. If the accuracy can be fine-tuned Conspire could become one of the most useful email add-on products ever, as good or better than inbox email analyzers Xobni, (bought by Yahoo in 2013 and closed down) or Rapportive. But the company and its tech are very young, founded in 2012 as part of TechStars. It often showed outdated information, like old work titles and former employers. Six conspire in casting of ‘Watchmen’ 'Watchmen,' the long-gestating big-screen adaptation of the seminal DC Comics limited series, has finally found its superheroes. We have to warn that when we played with it with a very limited address book, it wasn't terribly accurate. The founders says it operates at 95% accuracy. 'LinkedIn had 90 million users at its IPO,' Devkar points out, speaking at the Venture Capital in the Rockies Conference in Vail.Ĭonspire uses a smart computer algorithm to figure things out like the multiple email addresses of the same person. Conspire's co-founder Devkar estimates that when 25,000 users join, they will produce a network of 100 million people. The address books from those users gave it a network of 5.1 million people. Then it will recommend the best choice.Ĭonspire is in a limited beta right now with about 1,200 users. It may even find multiple people to help introduce you. to this section shall monitor the use of the database by the employees of the law enforcement agency and establish. Then enter the name of the person you want to search and it finds someone in your contact list to introduce you, examining that person's social media connections. Can you introduce us?'Įnter the Boulder, Colo.-based startup Conspire, founded by two data scientists who met at Stanford, Alex Devkar and Paul McReynolds.Ĭonspire uses your own email account as the basis for a game of Six Degrees of Separation. That's not exactly how the social norm is supposed to work, as in: 'Pardon me.

If you want to meet someone you don't know via LinkedIn, you can spam them with a connection request (a violation of LinkedIn's rules) or find someone who knows someone who knows the person, and ask to be introduced. But it's not great for meeting people outside your network. LinkedIn is a great way to show yourself off to prospective employers and stay in touch with people you know.

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