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fetchFounders almost always returns incorrect results #1

@LiamHz

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@LiamHz

The founders displayed are set to the top 3 results from Exa search when querying "$COMPANY founder's LinkedIn page" via fetchFounders.

Fetch founders always attempts to return 3 founders. If a company has only one or two founders, Exa will still return 3 people, and 3 people will be displayed in the founders section.

Attached are screenshots of two companies with incorrect founders being reported
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For the first image, Numerai has a single founder: Richard Craib. The second result is of the founder of a similarly named company (Numero), and the third result is of the former CTO he no longer works at the company

Similar story for the second image. Only Sam Zeloof is a founder of that company.

Using gpt-4o-mini could be used on the contents of the fetched LinkedIn pages to better assess if a result is a match.

Another method to validate results: we could fetch the contents of LinkedIn profiles returned by fetchFounders, and only return them if the work experience section has both the specified company and the role "founder" listed

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