Daniel Ha

Daniel Ha is co-founder and CEO of blog comment platform Disqus.[1]

Daniel Ha
Born1986 (age 33–34)
EducationUniversity of California, Davis
Known forDisqus

Ha started Disqus with co-founder Jason Yan, a classmate he had known since the 7th grade, in 2007 while attending University of California, Davis to study computer engineering.[2] After registering disqus.com as a catchy domain to be used for any number of projects that they had in mind, the project evolved from just a domain registration into a blog comment platform. Once off the ground they applied and got accepted to Y Combinator, a startup incubator, and with that footing were able to secure more meetings with investors, eventually raising $10 million in funding in May 2011.[1] Having gone through many investor meetings, Ha found initial success after striking a chord with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, a user of the product, who would be the cornerstone of first round VC.[2]

He was selected as one of the "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011" by Businessweek.[2]

References
  1. "Starting on a name-first basis". National Post. November 28, 2011.
  2. "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011". Businessweek. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
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