johndavi
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Comment · 3 years ago
Any early access codes you're spraying around? Also how does Function compare to something like your out of the box test-ordering companies? https://www.ultalabtests.com
Comment · 5 years ago
Related to today's frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941332
Comment · 8 years ago
MINDBODY (http://www.mindbodyonline.com) | San Luis Obispo, CA | Onsite | Fulltime | Senior Product Managers, Director of UX, Product Marketers, Engineers
MINDBODY is the leading platform for fitness, beauty and wellness businesses -- created in 2003, NASDAQ-listed (MB) since 2016. We have a mission to continue to help individuals lead happier and healthier lives. So far: nearly 70,000 small and large businesses run on MINDBODY, and tens of millions of consumers use us for their regular fitness and wellness activities.
Our headquarters is in San Luis Obispo -- equidistant (3h) from Los Angeles and San Francisco on the 101, yet seemingly a world away. SLO is an oasis tucked in the middle of California, with a growing tech scene, yet firm foothold as one of the happiest cities in the US (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north...), if that means anything to you. It's a great place to visit, and an incredible place to live.
We are hiring across the board -- see https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities.
My team in particular is hiring:
Sr Director, UX: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...
Director, Product Marketing (and many PMM roles): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...
Senior Product Manager(s): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities..., https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...
Comment · 8 years ago
MINDBODY (http://www.mindbodyonline.com)) | San Luis Obispo, CA | Onsite | Fulltime | Senior Product Managers, Director of UX, Product Marketers, Engineers
MINDBODY is the leading platform for fitness, beauty and wellness businesses -- created in 2003, NASDAQ-listed (MB) since 2016. We have a mission to continue to help individuals lead happier and healthier lives. So far: nearly 70,000 small and large businesses run on MINDBODY, and tens of millions of consumers use us for their regular fitness and wellness activities.
Our headquarters is in San Luis Obispo -- equidistant (3h) from Los Angeles and San Francisco on the 101, yet seemingly a world away. SLO is an oasis tucked in the middle of California, with a growing tech scene, yet firm foothold as one of the happiest cities in the US (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north...), if that means anything to you. It's a great place to visit, and an incredible place to live.
We are hiring across the board -- see https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities.
My team in particular is hiring:
Director, UX: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...
Director, Product Marketing (and many PMM roles): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...
Senior Product Manager(s): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...
Comment · 9 years ago
Their email to users offers a transition to the Small Business product... which appears to be the same product at $10/month/device. So this is really a pricing change, though you can enjoy a 75% discount for a year while you decide what's next.
Comment · 9 years ago
To a large extent that's on the employee. If you choose to move to an area with no industrial foundation, then you are stuck with the horse you rode in on.
(It's also -- knowing the Zapier history of being aggressive on the employee-friendliness front, and having interacted with them in their earlier days -- somewhat uncharitable as a default position.)
Comment · 9 years ago
We priced our product appropriately for our customer base and the value offered by our product: which is to say, an order of magnitude more costly than a typical VC-subsidized, "make it up in volume" startup approach.
This certainly resulted in the opposite of growth, raw-customer-count-wise, but it's led to a legitimate, sustainable and growing business; streamlined our maintenance and support costs; and focused our product roadmap.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yes to both!
Comment · 10 years ago
Here's a slightly more detailed description: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-algorithm-used-by-Diffbot-...
All identification and extraction in our APIs is based on our ML models, which have been fed hundreds of thousands of data-point examples from annotated web pages. Basically: our back end has reviewed millions of web pages to learn what various components of a page are -- and even what "type" of page a page is -- and uses that to make judgments on ones submitted via API.
Comment · 10 years ago
We exclusively rely on ML for our core product at Diffbot: automatic data extraction from web pages (articles, products, images, discussion threads, more in the pipeline), cross-site data normalization, etc. It's interesting and challenging work, but a definite point of pride for us to be a profitable AI-powered entity.
Comment · 10 years ago
If anything this makes -- should have made -- taking a principled stand drastically easier.
It also doesn't follow that a defense then could ever be "we won't fire..." He's not an employee nor a YC vote-carrier nor an equity holder that you seemingly can fire.
Comment · 10 years ago
Public statements made under duress (however weak the duress) or after the political calculus is done are worth their weight in tweets. Any silence -- which has been anything but in Graham's back and forth with Hansson -- is already indelible.
This is really just a lame, Valley-lensed Pascalian wager. Say nothing and maintain a flatline with YC applicants (who care mostly for YC demo day flow) and the notoriously humorless Thiel; say something and enjoy only the satisfaction of having demonstrated (Apple-like) courage of conviction -- while risking whatever havoc Thiel wishes to wreak upon you.
Comment · 10 years ago
The right thing to do here would have been to award the fellowship to the voting winners and then amend your rules to exclude "applicants about whom we have bad vibes" going forward.
Retroactively doing so, sure, is your right but it's fairly underhanded.
Former SVP Product @ Mindbody, VP Product @ Diffbot, Director Engineering @ Cisco.
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