Ryan Badger

Ryan is a co-founder of Basecomp. He spent years building ecommerce tools at Shoprocket before turning that work towards prize competitions, and he runs competition sites himself rather than only building for the people who do.

WinWink was Basecomp's first customer long before it was anyone else's example. Most of what the platform does exists because something was painful there first: ticket numbering that could not drift, instant wins committed before a ticket is sold, and a draw anyone can check for themselves.