#1 Jet.com Insider here :)

Hi Everyone,

I'm Eric Martin, the guy who won first place out of over 350,000 entries in the Jet.com's Insider competition in 2015. I'm a follower of Jesus, my wife is Melody, and we have three little girls. At this point in my life, I'm trying a few different things and not really sure what I'll end up doing. I recently audited the first week of Andrew Ng's course https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning/ and really enjoyed it, so maybe I'll keep going with that.

(props to anyone who guesses where this image was taken)

I've also won another referral contest and done some other random stuff. That sums it up, but there's more about me with links below if you're curious.

Here are some other social accounts:

https://medium.com/@ericmartin1
https://twitter.com/ericmartin128
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmartin12/
https://www.facebook.com/ericmartin139

You can message me directly here if you want to (you only pay the fee if you get a response from me):

21.co/ericmartin

Here's an exciting account of how I won the the Jet.com contest:

http://splinternews.com/this-guy-used-an-insane-get-rich-quick-scheme-to-become-1793845680

and another account:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/26/technology/jet-contest-winner-eric-martin/index.html

These are some articles related to the windfall that came when Walmart bought Jet.com for about 3.3 billion dollars:

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/08/this-pennsylvania-guy-probably-made-a-killing-on-the-wal-mart-jetcom-deal.html

http://fortune.com/2016/08/09/multimillionaire-jet-walmart-sale/

Here's a fun video on the Jet win:

http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-martin-multimillionaire-winning-jet-contest-walmart-2016-8

This is an interesting (hopefully) article on what I think the future of work will look like:

https://medium.com/@ericmartin1/what-will-jobs-and-the-economy-look-like-in-the-future-e57154aff24c

Here's my startup which tries to get real value from ideas:

https://www.ideadash.com/

This year I won first place in another startup referral contest from https://www.nvstr.com/ - you can read about the win here:

https://blog.nvstr.com/lucky-10-win-stock-options-in-groundbreaking-investing-startup-2e38ff3d17ef

I'm writing a book on the U.S. Constitution ... you can get some of an early potential preview here:

https://ericmartinblog.com/my-book-a1332d656bcf

I ran for the Republican nomination of a Pennsylvania seat of the U.S. House of Representaves in 2012. I lost. I got a reference in Bloomberg Businesweek, because of my Ron Paul platform:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-26/the-ron-paul-effect

I'm a big Ron Paul fan... if you don't know much about him you could read articles and watch videos online, or read his very interesting book (he's got other books, too):

https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/B004IEA4D2

I think that covers a lot of the interesting stuff, and maybe some boring stuff, too. Thanks!