Daniel Ha

{{Short description|Co-founder and CEO of Disqus}}

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| birth_place = Anchorage, Alaska

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| education = University of California, Davis

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Daniel Ha is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of blog comment platform Disqus.{{cite news|title=Starting on a name-first basis|newspaper=National Post|date=November 28, 2011}}

Ha started Disqus with his co-founder, Jason Yan, in 2007. Ha and Yan had known each other since the 7th grade. At the time, Ha was attending the University of California, Davis, where he was studying computer engineering.{{cite web|title=Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011|url=http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20110516/best-young-tech-entrepreneurs-2011.html#slide20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712025508/http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20110516/best-young-tech-entrepreneurs-2011.html#slide20|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 12, 2012|publisher=Businessweek|accessdate=May 19, 2011}}

After registering disqus.com as a catchy domain to be used for any number of projects that they had in mind, the project evolved from just a domain registration into a blog comment platform. Once off the ground they applied and got accepted to Y Combinator, a startup incubator, and with that footing were able to secure more meetings with investors, eventually raising $10 million in funding in May 2011.