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Announcing: Plaid Layer Layer increases end-to-end sign up rates by 10 - 25%. In a world where 1-2% gains are considered a big win. Here’s how we…
Announcing: Plaid Layer Layer increases end-to-end sign up rates by 10 - 25%. In a world where 1-2% gains are considered a big win. Here’s how we…
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FYI, we discovered the next untapped frontier for predictive fraud data for fintechs and FIs. 👇 Bank accounts that have been linked by three or more…
FYI, we discovered the next untapped frontier for predictive fraud data for fintechs and FIs. 👇 Bank accounts that have been linked by three or more…
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The most important lesson I learnt from running a 70-person AI startup: You have to push yourself. It’s not an easy ride. There are setbacks…
The most important lesson I learnt from running a 70-person AI startup: You have to push yourself. It’s not an easy ride. There are setbacks…
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Stanford University
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Activities and Societies: Leader of autonomous drone programming division in Stanford robotics club, ALT: The Association for Liberation Technologies, Stanford Bitcoin Group
I love computer science and I aim to explore the technologies behind some of the fields I think will play a big role in the future, namely: crypto-currencies, 3D printing, augmented reality, and cheap and autonomous robotic drones. Outside of my major I'm interested in economics, psychology, philosophy, and government. I prefer to explore these fields more casually in the interest of freeing up time to explore side-projects outside of studying.
Projects
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ReplaceReader
Once Google announced that they would be discontinuing Google Reader, I helped create a Twitter voting system that let people vote for their favorite Google Reader Replacement. It was created in 10 hours and it's based on Sinatra and Backbone.js. It received 60,000 unique hits within the week of launch with 3,000 tweets and 1,200 Facebook likes.
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Multi-Drone
Won Second place at the Drone Games hackathon for writing code to simultaneously control multiple AR Drones from one computer. We wrote a set of scripts and modified the nodeJS drone library to enable virtually limitless simultaneous control of multiple drones
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BlockScore
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BlockScore simplifies Know your Customer compliance and customer identity verification for Bitcoin companies.
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