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Patrick Wang

@junesix

Product @Grammarly. Subscription, billing, payments. Prev @AppDirect, @Livefyre, @Endpoint_IRT, @UCBerkeley. Amateur avocado farmer. Thoughts are my own.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined February 2007
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Zillow: Oops, buying and selling assets is harder than just rating them nytimes.com/2021/11/02/busin…

Zillow, facing big losses, quits flipping houses and will lay off a quarter of its staff. (Publis...

The real estate website had been relying on its algorithm that estimates home values to buy and resell homes. That part of its business lost about $420 million in three months.

nytimes.com
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Opened Twitter on link redirect. Scrolled feed. Thought 10 min had passed but it was an hour. Terrifying #timedilation
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My 2014 prediction is pretty accurate fastcompany.com/90205212/com… teapawt.net/junesix/status/5282053…
Comcast is totally okay with you not having an Xfinity set-top box

Comcast is totally okay with you not having an Xfinity set-top box

In the era of smart TVs, Comcast is discovering that its Xfinity X1 platform has more value than the box it sits inside.

fastcompany.com
Patrick Wang (@junesix) profile picturePatrick Wang@junesix31 Oct 2014
2015: Cable networks sell online 2016: Bundler services take off 2017: Comcast acq top bundler & Roku. 2018: Launch new box+200 channel srvc
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Deirdre Bosa
@dee_bosa8 Feb 2018
Prime Minister Trudeau at @AppDirect HQ in SF with @danielsaks ...Forgot his hoodie and Allbirds but keeping up w the conversation. Asks: “are you developing your own AI or shopping around?”
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Picks and shovels in AR gold rush: "In the fourth quarter of this year, Apple alone will purchase 10 times more VCSEL wafers than previously manufactured globally over a similar time period." cnbc.com/2017/12/13/apple-in…

Apple invests $390 million into Finisar, which makes laser chips for iPhone X

With Apple's investment, Finisar will reopen a shuttered plant in Texas and add 500 jobs.

cnbc.com
Come work for @AppDirect! teapawt.net/women2/status/91103994…
SWITCH (formerly Women 2.0) (@SwitchtheFuture) profile pictureSWITCH (formerly Women 2.0)@SwitchtheFuture22 Sep 2017
6 Bay Area Companies Looking for Women Developers and Product Managers ow.ly/bN2x30fiJIe
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Telsa Powerwall2 = 10 kwh batt. Tesla Model 3 = 50 kwh batt. Possible to timeshift power through car batt on days when left at home?
Roku spun out from Netflix so they always have a first-and-best customer to test out new initiatives like interactive content
Nice timing to have the Whole Foods deal 1 day after Dash Wand was announced
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk16 Jun 2017
Mars V2 plan coming soon, which I think addresses the most fundamental flaw in V1: how to pay for development & operation of giant rockets teapawt.net/sciam/status/875756138…
Scientific American (@sciam) profile pictureScientific American
@sciam16 Jun 2017
Elon Musk publishes plans for colonizing Mars bit.ly/2rE8DSJ
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I think the next logical step would be for Bezos to buy a newspaper and space rockets. Oh wait...
SpaceX for X business model = take the most expensive one-time use thing you can think of and make it reusable
Surprised if Amazon hasn’t made a pass at acquiring Okta. IAM + juicy related services ML data is good for AWS and Marketplace – at Downtown, San Francisco
Between #awsdown and #alexadown, I'm not so sure about the delivery drone fleet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol… As manufactured goods become cheaper, people devote more resources to the thing that’s scarce, which is human labor
Extensive coverage by @macstoriesnet on iOS 10. Highlights: major iMessage upgrades macstories.net/stories/ios-1… Collaborative messaging spot-on

iOS 10: The MacStories Review

Sometimes, change is unexpected. More often than not, change sneaks in until it feels grand and inevitable. Gradually, and then suddenly. iOS users have lived through numerous tides of such changes...

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I just set up my SQL queries in @WagonHQ only to get the email that they're folding into @BoxHQ and shutting down
Proud @AppDirect in @Glassdoor top 50 private cloud companies read.bi/2bRgZQL In good company @asana @chef @duosec @smartsheet @okta
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Tweet or give em a call. You would be surprised what they will do for your business.
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