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Dan Shapiro

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Dan Shapiro is the CEO of Glowforge, the 3D laser printer and most-backed crowdfunding campaign in history. Previously, Dan inadvertently launched the bestselling board game in Kickstarter history with Robot Turtles, a game that teaches programming fundamentals to preschoolers. Before his detour as a boardgame designer, Dan spent two years as CEO of Google Comparison, Inc, a Google subsidiary that operates comparison shopping products. Shapiro landed at Google when they bought his previous company, comparison shopping website Sparkbuy; his debut company was Photobucket Inc. 

Dan's been featured on NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and on the front page of the New York Times. His game, Robot Turtles, can be purchased everywhere from Amazon to Target to MOMA. He is a mentor for the Founder's Institute, 500 Startups, Highway 1, and Techstars. He has been awarded a lucky thirteen patents and received his B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. He lives in Seattle with his wife and twins.

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