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Plaid Launches in France, Spain, and Ireland(blog.plaid.com)
122 points by charleyma 7y ago|60 comments
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by charleyma 7y ago
Very exciting to see more companies open up prod + engineering divisions in NYC - I feel as though typical bay area tech satellite NYC offices are go-to-market focused first before expanding out to prod/eng so interesting to see Gusto
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by charleyma 7y ago
"Most discussions around data defensibility actually boil down to scale effects, a dynamic that fits a looser definition of network effects in which there is no direct interaction between nodes." Good distinction between scale vs
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by charleyma 8y ago
This is amazing!! Love that you all have also pre-seeded itineraries from popular travel blogs - any plans on also bringing in tripadvisor data in?
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Refreshing Plaid's brand(blog.plaid.com)
40 points by charleyma 8y ago|36 comments
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by charleyma 8y ago
Toxicity in gaming + virtual communities (particularly against women) seems to be an issue that no company has a great grasp on. I recently gave Fortnite a try and ended up turning chat off due to relentless abuse by someone that sounded li
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by charleyma 8y ago
Has there been any commercial use case for graphene yet? I feel as though I've been hearing about its potential constantly for many years, but can't recall any commercial use cases yet. (side note - it also reminds me of the many
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by charleyma 8y ago
"Ant says it wants to be known not as a financial conglomerate but as a technology provider or “lifestyle platform,” with future profits coming mainly from fees from institutions using its technology." As fintech companies get lar
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by charleyma 8y ago
Nvidia is my favorite example of "the next big thing that started out as a toy" ala A16Z's Chris Dixon ( http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o... ). Literally started off a
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by charleyma 8y ago
Username + password is a huge attack vector, especially for services where users signup and eventually stop using or forget. I wish there was some obligation to reset password or require some form of MFA for applications that experience no
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by charleyma 8y ago
Love simple services that do exactly what you would expect
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Crypto Commons – Noteworthy – The Journal Blog(blog.usejournal.com)
2 points by charleyma 8y ago|0 comments
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Lyft and Uber serve low-income communities better than taxis, says study(curbed.com)
2 points by charleyma 8y ago|0 comments
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As Amazon moves deeper into health care, here's what we know and what we suspect(cnbc.com)
1 points by charleyma 8y ago|0 comments
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by charleyma 8y ago
Would also potentially add "voice control" to this list. It's amazing to me that by trying to be "innovative/modern", most car user interface designs have become increasingly user unfriendly. Case in point, the
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by charleyma 8y ago
Facebook also shut down TBH (anonymous compliment app popular amongst teens) and Hello (a phone app?). They've also closed some of their APIs around graph + page searching... guessing a lot of these actions a direct result of the Cambr
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by charleyma 8y ago
Meanwhile, CVS + Walgreens lost $6B in market cap on the news Amazon is moving directly into pharmacy space. It's crazy how competitive Wall Street views Amazon moving into a market; have there been examples of Amazon making a large pu
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by charleyma 8y ago
Interesting answer to Verizon's acquisition of AOL + Yahoo, until all the recent acquisitions I (naively) just assumed ISP's revenue was primary from selling services (cable, internet, tv, data, etc) and reselling the data somehow
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by charleyma 8y ago
As it relates to sponsorship transparency, I think platforms such as instagram, youtube, etc have broader issues with their influencers whether CGI'ed or not... I did find it really interesting that a CGI character could be more appeal
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How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)(twitter.com)
1 points by charleyma 8y ago|2 comments
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by charleyma 8y ago
Fully expect this to eventually get settled with no prosecution against any execs. When HSBC laundered money for the Mexican Cartel [1], just had to pay a one time fine of $1.92B [2] and say "we're sorry". Would be extremely
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by charleyma 8y ago
Main goals of a salesteam include building accurate pipeline, and closing that pipeline as quickly as possible. In B2B, level of touch definitely depends on the size of the deal. Excellent discovery + qualification done quickly is super imp
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by charleyma 8y ago
Plaid was just starting 5 years ago :) we currently don't have an updated official go library for our API, but shoot me an email (charley@plaid.com) and can shoot over some recs for third party libraries
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by charleyma 8y ago
Plaid can pull balance information for asset + investments accounts, so typically the size of the portfolio
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by charleyma 8y ago
Charley from Plaid here. Correct! We have three environments you can send API traffic into - sandbox, development, and production. Sandbox + development are 100% free to use, development just requires a quick request through the dashboard a
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by charleyma 8y ago
I signed up to be a Bird charger in SF and it's been quite difficult to find scooters to charge. All the scooters go offline at 9pm to be charged and then have to be dropped off by 7am the next morning in order to get paid. I've e
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by charleyma 8y ago
"The longer a company has been in business – or the less good a founder is at telling a story – the more concrete and certain the metrics of that business need to be. Part of the challenge companies that have raised too much seed money
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by charleyma 8y ago
One of my friend's parents owns a parrot and I didn't believe it when she told me their Macaw could live up to 80 years. I can't imagine having a pet live for a lifetime...
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by charleyma 8y ago
What type of roles are you specifically looking for? Engineering, sales, marketing, business, etc Also what type (industry) and what stage startup are you applying to? For example, "startups" like space-x I'm assuming value h
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by charleyma 8y ago
Jumping ahead of the conversation a bit, insert blockchain thread here. (=

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