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John Marks
Co-founder of Draftmix

Overview

John Marks grew up in the Akron, Ohio region. He co-founded Draftmix, a fantasy sports site for fun and money, in the summer of 2007.

Early Years

John grew up in the Akron, Ohio region.  He likes to hunt pigeons and tend chickens on his farm in Ohio.  (Everywhere in Ohio is basically chicken coops.)

Education

John Marks attended the University of Akron, where he earned a degree in Computer Science.
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Sachin Rekhi
Y Combinator Friend
John and Sachin are both founders of startups funded by Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.

Sachin is one of the co-founders of Anywhere.fm, the best web music player that lets you play your music anywhere.
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Draftmix
Venture
John is one of the co-founders of Draftmix, a fantasy sports site for fun and money. Draftmix received seed funding from Y Combinator in the summer of 2007, when it was founded.
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Kevin West
Y Combinator Friend
John and Kevin met at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.

Kevin is one of the co-founders of Versionate, which makes it very easy to share documents with others.
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Chad Remesch
Co-founder
John and Chad are co-founders of Draftmix, a fantasy sports site for fun and money that was given seed funding by Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.
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Ethan Herdrick
Y Combinator Friend
John met Ethan at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007, where they founded their respective companies, Draftmix and the Biographicon.
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Aaron Benjamin Iba
Y Combinator Friend
John met Aaron at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.

Aaron is one of the co-founders of Appjet, the easiest way to make a web app.
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Y Combinator
Seed funding firm
John's company, Draftmix, was funded by Y Combinator.
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Matt Maroon
Co-founder
Matt and John are co-founders of Draftmix, a fantasy sports site for fun and money that was given seed funding by Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.
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Daniel Terhorst
Y-Combinator Friend
John met Daniel in Boston while both were in town for Y Combinator's 2007 summer cycle of investment.  Both founded companies there, the Biographicon (Daniel) and Draftmix (John).

Daniel and John are equally unskilled at ping pong.
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David Zhao
Y-Combinator Friend
John and David met at Y Combinator in the summer of 2007.

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