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Design lead @TikTik. Previously @Meta. Always curious and creative.

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
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Today, we are opening up public access to a new AI product we have been building called Poe. Poe lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with several AI-powered bots. (1/n)
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Here's my conversation with @bryan_johnson, founder of @KernelCo, OS Fund & previously Braintree, about brain-computer interfaces, including a cool demo at the beginning where I wear the new Kernel Flow interface and have my brain recorded and visualized. youtube.com/watch?v=1YbcB6b4…
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BREAKING: The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have forced international students to leave the country if their colleges hold classes online this fall. The administration was sued over the new policy by Harvard and MIT. apne.ws/p0KqbpI
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📍Lands End, San Francisco by our Senior Product Designer @UsBots. Send us your maps and models by tagging us #DroneDeploy!
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-kid gets repeatedly bullied at his HS — manure on car on his bday 😡 - @spidadmitchell hears about it and get in touch -tickets to the game, signed shoes, and a promise. Pretty cool. Be like Donovan.
We've got your back, Luc ❤️
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Such an honor to be back home in San Francisco to celebrate #Pride. Remember, we will leave no one to fight alone.
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This video is more dramatic than the actual movie “The Social Network”
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As president, I will launch a $7 billion Small Business Equity Fund to provide grants to entrepreneurs—not loans or loan guarantees. Loans aren’t as good as equity because they leave businesses with debt when they’re trying to grow. Equity helps businesses thrive from the start.
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Lessons learned: get your rings sized correctly, & your hacked-together taped-up tools are more effective than navigating bureaucracy.
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Last commencement-related tweet, for a while, promise ;-) I posted the full text here: max.levch.in/post/1738779321…
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art+tech talks this thursday by @USbots and @LatinaOprah at sf tech poetics, hosted by @Mixmax facebook.com/events/36786041…
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Excited to host SF Tech Poetics this Thursday @Mixmax 730pm, featuring @LatinaOprah and @USbots facebook.com/events/36786041…
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It's 4 days later and I'm still randomly laugh-crying, in case you're wondering what it feels like to have the place you grew up decide it's okay for you to exist, after all. newnownext.com/trinidad-decr…
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Come be Mixmax's first product design hire: mixmax.com/careers/senior-pr…
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A high growth startup vs a large company... nitter.cf/ballstreet/status/9503…
Nothing to see here. Just three Japanese internationals vs. 100 school children lining up in a 30-30-30-10 formation.
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My investment criteria.
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Automation commonly creates more, and better-paying, jobs than it destroys on.wsj.com/2gDjedf
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NYC is considering expanding the Brooklyn Bridge's pathways. wny.cc/wOPj3034hNH
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“If we are ever going to truly have a system free of racial bias we have to rethink approaches to school safety." wny.cc/uT6b3034iUW
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Here's your afternoon moment of zen: the sound of whales just off the coast of Fire Island. amp.twimg.com/v/a4c3033d-61c…
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