When Silicon Valley Vet Put Out Call To Help With COVID-19, Thousands Assembled For Global Hackathon.

Slow Ventures co-founder Sam Lessin sent an email to 300 people. Days later, 18,000 people had registered for a global hackathon to combat the coronavirus by DavidJeans2

his company would join with the World Health Organization and scientists from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub offering guidance to participants.

Others tinkered on a tool to make isolation fun. Brandon Tory, an engineer with Google’s artificial intelligence unit, teamed up with four other software engineers to develop an online game to encourage social distancing. Hackathon events are an age-old tradition in Silicon Valley as forums where some multi-million dollar startups like GroupMe and Carousell have been born. At Facebook, hackathons have spawned widely used tools including Blood Donations and Crisis Response.

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