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 ## History of Cortex
 
-The Cortex project was started by Tom Wilkie (Grafana Labs' VP Product) and Julius Volz (Prometheus' co-founder) in June 2016.
+The Cortex project was started by Tom Wilkie and Julius Volz (Prometheus' co-founder) in June 2016.