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Photograph of Daniel Terhorst.
Daniel Terhorst
Founding Partner of the Biographicon

Overview

Daniel Terhorst (born 31 March 1984) is an entrepreneur. In the summer of 2007, he co-founded the Biographicon. He began programming at the age of 10 and attended the University of Washington, Tacoma, graduating Magna cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Computing Software and Systems.

Early Life and Education

Daniel was born on 31 March 1984 in Vancouver, Washington, in the United States. He lived in many places in the US and overseas, including Virginia, Germany and Mississippi, because his father was in the US Army. For the same reason, Daniel was home-schooled until the 7th grade.

Around the age of 10, Daniel found a book on programming and began to teach himself. He later went on to learn a multitude of programming languages and came to earn a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science.

Career

After graduating from the University of Washington in Tacoma, Daniel was employed by the University of Washington in Seattle to work in the Center of Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis (CUSPA). He worked there for one year before leaving on good terms to start his own company.

The Biographicon

Daniel founded the Biographicon, along with his business partner, Ethan Herdrick, in June, 2007, after being accepted into the Y Combinator venture program.

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Daniel met Matt Maroon during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Matt is one of the co-founders of Draftmix, fantasy sports for fun and money.
Daniel met Nick during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Nick is one of the co-founders of Reble, a powerful and easy to use media player that gives you instant access to your friend's music libraries and playlists.  Legally.
Daniel met Ryan during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Ryan is one of the co-founders of Fuzzwich, which makes an animation editor that lets you create quick, simple animated shorts.
Daniel Terhorst met Kevin during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding, when they received seed funding and worked on building up their respective companies.

Kevin is one of the co-founders of Versionate, which makes it very easy to share documents with others.

Daniel and the Versionates have been known to rock the house playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Daniel met David at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007. They shared an apartment during the program.

David is the founder of Splashup, the only full-featured, free-range, image editor online.
Daniel met John Marks during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding, when they founded their respective companies, the Biographicon and Draftmix.

Daniel and John are equally unskilled at ping pong.
Daniel met Alexis on a couple different occasions during the summer of 2007.
 
Alexis is one of the co-founders of Reddit, a source for what's new and popular online.
Daniel and Chad during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Chad is one of the co-founders of Draftmix, fantasy sports for fun and money.
Y Combinator provided seed funding for Daniel's start-up, the Biographicon, in the summer of 2007.
Daniel and Laurence during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Laurence is one of the co-founders of Fuzzwich, which makes an animation editor that lets you create quick, simple animated shorts.

Daniel was one of the earliest competent users of the Fuzzwich Minivid Animator.
Photograph of Ethan Herdrick.
Ethan Herdrick
Co-founder
Daniel and Ethan met as co-workers at the Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis (CUSPA) research lab at the University of Washington in early 2007. They left CUSPA on good terms to found a company together.

Daniel and Ethan received seed funding from Y-Combinator in the summer of 2007. After iterating through a few different products, they came to start working on the Biographicon.
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Y Combinator
Summer, 2007
Daniel's company, the Biographicon, received seed funding from Y Combinator, Inc. in the summer of 2007 round of funding.
Daniel met Devin during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Devin is one of the co-founders of Fuzzwich, which makes an animation editor that lets you create quick, simple animated shorts.
Daniel and Sachin met during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

Sachin is one of the co-founders of Anywhere.fm, the best web music player that lets you play your music anywhere.
Daniel and Aaron met at Y-Combinator in summer, 2007.

Aaron is the co-founder of Appjet, the easiest way to make a web app.
Y Combinator provided seed funding for Daniel's start-up, the Biographicon, in the summer of 2007.
Daniel met David at Y-Combinator in the summer of 2007.

David is one of the co-founders of Appjet, the easiest way to make a web app.
Photograph of Daniel Ha.
Daniel Ha
Friend
Daniel Terhorst and Daniel Ha during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.
 
Daniel Ha is one of the co-founders of Disqus, a commenting system for your blog or webpage.
Photograph of Jason Yan.
Jason Yan
Friend
Daniel met Jason at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.
 
Jason is a founding partner of Disqus, a commenting system for your blog or webpage.
Daniel and David during the summer 2007 round of  Y Combinator funding.

David is one of the co-founders of Versionate, which makes it very easy to share documents with others.

Daniel and the Versionates have been known to play Rock Band together.
Daniel and Scott know each other through SuperHappyDevHouse (SHDH). They have had conversations on topics ranging from the Scheme programming language to Bloom filters and Facebook applications.
Daniel and Sam met at a party in April, 2008, which led to the exchange of business ideas.
Y Combinator provided seed funding for Daniel's start-up, the Biographicon, in the summer of 2007.
Photograph of Paul Graham.
Paul Graham
Investor
Y Combinator provided seed funding for Daniel's start-up, the Biographicon, in the summer of 2007.
Daniel and Matt attended the CSS program at the University of Washington in Tacoma together.
Daniel met Robert at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.

Robert is one of the co-founders of Fuzzwich, who make an animation editor that lets you create quick, simple animated shorts.
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