Anthony Goldbloom

Anthony Goldbloom is the founder and former CEO of Kaggle, a data science competition platform and online community for data scientists and machine learning practitioners under Google LLC. Kaggle enables users to find and publish datasets, explore and build models in a web-based data science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges. Founded in April 2010, Kaggle has grown to become the world's largest data science community, with over 15 million users in 194 countries as of October 2023. In 2017, Kaggle was acquired by Google, and in 2022, Goldbloom stepped down from his position as CEO, with D. Sculley succeeding him. Goldbloom holds a first-class honours degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Melbourne. Prior to founding Kaggle, he worked in the economic modeling unit of Australia's Department of Treasury and spent time in the Research department at the Reserve Bank of Australia. He conceived the idea for Kaggle while interning at The Economist in London, where he was tasked with writing an article on the emerging area of 'big data'. In 2021, Goldbloom joined AIX Ventures as an Investment Partner, a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups. He has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 Under 30 in Technology and profiled by Fast Company as part of its 'Who's Next?' series. He has also been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Independent, and has appeared on the Science Show Catalyst. Goldbloom resides in San Francisco, California, where Kaggle is headquartered.

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