VP Product at @joinhandshake, obsessed Duke MBB fan, NBA convert, father of two young boys - that's all I have time for. Previously @99designs, @TinyPrints.
Oakland, CA
Joined April 2008
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Ashish Desai retweeted
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.
So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)
(long 🧵)
Ashish Desai retweeted
If you haven’t seen Severance, go watch Severance. World-class sci-fi thriller, and one of the best shows I’ve seen in years.
Ashish Desai retweeted
Fairly wild that the team with the worst COVID outbreak in the league is just like “sure yeah bring in the unvaccinated guy specifically to travel in close proximity with everyone.”
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Tomorrow morning Handshake’s @samhitakarnati presents “When Users Break the Mold: A Search Story” in the Product track of this year’s @DENStartupWeek 🙌
Register for the session, sponsored by @PalantirTech here: denverstartupweek.org/schedu…
#DENStartupWeek
ALT Track Speaker: Denver Startup Week October 4-8 2021. #DenStartupWeek DenverStartupWeek.com
Ashish Desai retweeted
It's Friday, which means it's weekend soon. But then it becomes Monday, and you're going back to work—and I think you should consider coming to work with us, the nice design team at @joinHandshake. We wrote a little about what that is like: creative-comb-771.notion.sit…
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In Europe they kept public schools open, in the US, driven by special interests and irrational risk benefit analysis, we closed them
The harms will take decades to see and the decision will be universally considered a blunder
nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/co…
Ashish Desai retweeted
Very interesting! The fine folks at Handshake found that students of color prefer virtual career events — less stress, fewer snap judgements → bit.ly/HNT21-TCT
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I’m starting to look at what is next for me. Looking for a CTO or technical leader role somewhere that has good humans, interesting problems and needs help scaling. Hit me up for a coffee or video call 📞 ☕️🦙
Ashish Desai retweeted
LA FRIENDS: if you’re willing to make the drive we got a hot tip that CSU Bakersfield has WAYYY too many doses at their vax site and is letting anyone and everyone come get jabbed no appointments or requirements necessary. We were in and out in under an hour.
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Zion is UNSTOPPABLE. Sheesh teapawt.net/StephNoh/status/136728…
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“We’re losing valuable time each day and worry negotiations will drag on for months, to the detriment of thousands of kids.”
New statement from @OUSD_Parents:
#openschools
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Ashish Desai retweeted
CDC says schools should be open. That’s all. That’s the tweet
Fall is gone. But let’s try for spring.
Ashish Desai retweeted
For the past 9 months the finger has been pointed at Trump. For good reason. But this isn’t Trump. This is CA - the 6th largest economy in the world - with a complete lack of leadership (French Laundry?) + zero coherent plan when it comes to small business and our schools. 🤬
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Highlight: “LinkedIn’s all about your history, and Handshake is all about your future,” @joinHandshake CEO @GarrettLord says. “We’re specifically trying to help students launch their career, find the right industry, matchmake with companies, speak to young employees.”
Ashish Desai retweeted
Excited to finally announce our latest acquisition of @99designs. Bringing more value to our @Vistaprint customers and to the rest of the @Cimpress businesses.
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This is just the 1st of thousands of virtual fairs we'll be hosting for MILLIONS of students and employers this fall.
In April, we had ZERO video and nothing in the roadmap.
So proud of our @joinhandshake team and partners for stepping up when students needed us the most!
Today was the platform’s first fair, and I think a @DePaulU alum said it best— “Two thumbs up, and if I had more thumbs, they’d be up, too!” Awesome job, @joinHandshake team. Proud to be your partner in this virtual world. 👍
