Stanford co-authors of the study are data analyst Pang Wei Koh;
former undergraduate student Tianda Deng; instructor Rahul Sinha, PhD;
graduate students Jonathan Tsai, Amira Barkal, Kimberle Shen and Benson George; research assistant Rachel Morganti; postdoctoral scholar Nathaniel Fernhoff, PhD; assistant professor of pathology Gerlinde Wernig, MD;
former graduate student Zhenghao Chen; professor of pathology and of pediatrics Hannes Vogel, MD; assistant professor of genetics and of
computer science Anshul Kundaje, PhD; professor of developmental biology William Talbot, PhD; and professor of developmental biology Philip Beachy, PhD.
They enlisted Gebbia's
former flatmate, Nathan Blecharczyk, a
computer science graduate, to develop the website and began coordinating the launch of the company around the Democratic National Convention of 2008 to capitalise on the lack of accommodation.