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Ha. Still sticking to their guns: "...while the Upshot mobile app used pre-existing code, this did not violate the hackathon rules. Use of pre-existing code was allowable as long as the code did not comprise the majority of the app and did not violate any third party's rights." I think it does more damage than good

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"The internal audit team's review determined that Upshot's mobile app was created during the hackathon and met these criteria."

They just took an existing application made during a nine year tenure at Salesforce, threw it into a generic responsive / mobile app framework during the "hackathon" and made a cool mil..

It helps if Salesforce is already an investor in your product, of course.

And this doesn't address why most apps that were submitted weren't even ran. It's not like 149 apps are all that hard to at least take a look at.

Because if they rescinded the Upshot prize, they would have wound up having to pay more for the Upshot app they wanted to acquire. They aren't going to throw that deal away, ever.

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