Nest talk
- Apple influence
- Nest team shipped billion products
- talent would not walk away
- data collection not used for ads
Vox media talk
- battle for time / engagement
- recreate idea of habit for news
- still not subjected to apple store 30% revenue
- 6 million plus user webapp
- custom information collection
- tablet vs phone: depends very much on content (length, structure)
- print: stuff you don’t know you don’t know
- focus on investment is digital
Spritz wearable challenge talk
- mismatch between effort for content positioning vs reading
- spritz doubles reading speed by flashing words on small devices
Keeper talk
- products should minimize and honor the consumers time
- reduce work or eliminate waste
- cognitive dissonance
Good.co talk
- understand your strengths and relate them to jobs
- we know ourselves, bit we don’t know how we come across
Tech outside the valley
-in the end you will be in the valley at some point but won’t necessarily end there
Director the social network
- series with Kevin spacey and fincher directly to stream without tv
- reaches big audience
Twilio @jeffiel
- Everything is becoming a software problem, bring all industries to software realm.
- 10s-20s everything else
- televisionworld: not software people
- software brings flexibility: Tesla over the air updates
- Everything will be replicated, the experience is what dinstincts products
- recompose tech stack components when business changes
- those that are able to adapt will survive
- build vs die
- developer evangelisers all oflver the world (ambassadors)
- developers ate very good at matching problems with tools and solutions
Scott chacon github open source
- JavaScript java python ruby
- MIT licenses are 4 times more used than GPL
- Reasons to contribute:
- you use open source and fix them
- hiring
- working across fields
- engage community in their other products
- Future
- more remote working
- death of copy left
True and co women apparel online
- sensitive data
- what is our double sided handshake
- quizz instead of measurements
- illustrations instead of photos
- Longer quiz actually more conversion
- only show items that fit (runtime rendering of shop)
- returns require feedback about fit, color etc. to feed machine learning
- only produce bra sizes that tailor to demand and fit instead of full range
Hired
- 98 designs
- message designers after scraping top designers
- mailytics
- curebit →
various
- Blockchain
- Zynga
- Peter Thiel