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My problem with Kaggle is that they are more greedy then Apple, Kickstarter and Paypal together. Apple takes 30%, Kickstarter takes 10%, Paypal takes 3%, but Kaggle takes 50%!

I once asked them what the price would be to start a competition to outsource a difficult machine learning problem. Their answer was: We would need to pay $20k, if we want the winner to earn $10k.

Thats when I stopped thinking about those greedy bastards.

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That seems quite high, though those people do need to make money somehow. The other businesses aren't really comparable because they have a much, much more money flowing through them and can afford to tax a smaller percent to stay competitive.

Thanks for sharing. Do you know whether that 50% fee is fixed, or is it variable based on the amount of prize money you put up? That does seem like a ridiculously high figure!

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