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Philip I. Thomas

I'm making Find AI, a search engine for people and companies. I write and explore at Contraption Co. I'm a former digital nomad based in NYC, and I'm interested in coffee, craftsmanship, fermentation, and urbanism. In the past, I made Moonlight and Staffjoy.

Find me on LinkedIn and Github, and contact me at mail@philipithomas.com.

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What I'm up to - November 2024

November 12, 2024

Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September• Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo • Launched Find AI on Clay.com, our first major integration • Published two essays: Having a TJ, and Innovation versus distribution Things to share• Articles: Arne Jacobson petrol station. Rewrite it in Rails. Adam Savage on post-COVID San Francisco rang true. So did Marc Andreesen on why not to do a startup. Why does this building by the subway need 193 parking spots? • Books: Good Work is a sequel to one of my favorites, Pathless Path. Pattern Breakers provides a pragmatic framework for startup success. Sinan published an update to his LLM Quick Start book that I'm enjoying and recommend for any engineers who have to get up-to-speed on the latest AI tools. • Gear: These electrolytes have been a favorite of mine - especially after exercise or a wine tasting. This notebook has become my favorite pocket notebook (with a Pen Type-C). • Quote: “I think

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Emma Lawler

I'm an entrepreneur with a background in product & design. You can connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter 👋 I started my career in San Francisco at AKQA and Fitbit where I learned from experienced technologists and caught the entrepreneurial bug. I co-founded Moonlight, a marketplace to discover, hire, and pay experienced software developers. We bootstrapped to profitability, raised VC, and sold the platform in 2020. Next, I joined theSkimm to build apps under each of their content verticals (money, news, sports, etc). I went to business school at Chicago Booth, where I was an entrepreneur in residence at Chicago Ventures (read more about that journey here). Now, I'm building Velvet, an AI gateway for engineers to develop and deploy AI features with confidence. Reach out if you want to chat!

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Kumar Thangudu

I work on EngineerSF helping companies scale through non-obvious methods. I share my updates and musings on startups, energy, and the macro here pseudorandomly whenever I have a fortress of thoughts on a topic or issue. Subscribe below if you want to stay in touch. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter. I invest, build, write, and work.

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Lindsay Crouse

My name is Lindsay Crouse and I'm a Producer/Editor/Writer/Runner at The New York Times, where I've worked for over a decade. Drawing on my own experiences as a competitive athlete, I've been lucky to play a role in coverage of women athletes at The Times. The Emmy-nominated video series I produced, Equal Play, broke news by centering female athletes’ untold experiences and led to widespread reform in women’s sports. My reporting in 2019 exposed the lack of maternity protections that female professional athletes secretly faced at the time (featuring the experiences of Olympians Alysia Montano, Allyson Felix, and Kara Goucher, among others) — the result of a year-long investigation into industry standards, contracts, and the undisclosed toll of work and motherhood on female athletes. Combining my backgrounds in both video production and text reporting, the package changed maternity norms across the industry, including at Nike, which created a new policy to ensure pay for pregnant athletes over 18 months. As the Co-Executive Producer of Op-Docs, The Times’s series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers, I've produced nearly 400 short films, winning 4 Emmy awards (more than 20 nominations), 4 Oscar nominations, and 2 Peabody awards. Merging my background in women’s sports and documentary, I produced the first Oscar-winner for The Times (“The Queen of Basketball,” 2021). I'm a 2:53 marathoner and ran cross country at Harvard. Here is some of my work on women & sports you may have seen in The Times: "I'm 35 and Faster than I Ever Thought Possible" "How the 'Shalane Effect' Works" "Why Men Quit and Women Don't" And now, I'm on book leave! You can contact me at lindsay.crouse @ nytimes.com

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Ivana

👋🏼 Happy you're here - I'm Ivana, a MBA student at Chicago Booth (graduating in a few days!). 💼 I'm passionate about entrepreneurship / startups and innovative tech in the entertainment, media, and fitness spaces. Before business school, I was a consultant at Accenture Strategy, and during Booth - I've interned at multiple consumer related startups in marketing & business development roles (Candy Digital, an entertainment + sports NFT startup; Sky Mavis, a leading gaming crypto startup; TrueToForm, a digital avatar startup for apparel design; and Velvet, a payment authentication platform). 💛 Currently, I'm working at SoulCycle, leading partnerships and business development. Also other companies I'm consulting for are Blue Bottle Coffee (supporting go-to-market on latest cafe launch in Chicago 😉) and a stealth coffee pop-up (advisory / strategy). If you ever want to chat about wellness or coffee, I'd love to hear from you! ☕️ On weekends or mornings, you'd likely find me at Blue Bottle Coffee right after a SoulCycle class. Reach out if you want to join! Cheers, Ivana IG: @_hi_ivana TG: @chenivana

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Aaron Cohn

Hey I'm Aaron 👋 These days, I'm focused on creating a better future of work, no-code, and designing experiences worth talking about [both IRL + digital]. I lead Community at a future-of-work startup called A.Team, creating a home on the internet for the most talented independent software builders on earth. We've raised $60M to date (NYT, Forbes) from Tiger, Insight, Adam Grant, Michael Ovitz, Jay-Z, and the CFO of SpaceX. Outside of work, here's what else keeps me busy: • I rent a ski mountain every year for 160 friends [friendsrentamountain.com] • Volunteer as the no-code lead for US Digital Response • Dabbling in new products as a Partner at Quiet Ventures, a small NYC-based startup studio • EIR at the National University of Singapore • Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University • Running Founders Friday NYC • Thursday Night Softball • Enthusiastic supporter of dinner parties, Mets games, Citi Bike, Broadway rush tickets, good government, friend matchmaking, independent ski areas, history museums, last-minute trips, clever dodgeball strategy, and walking tours.

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Victoria Martinez de la Cruz

Open source software engineer @ Red Hat. Currently focused on all things storage for the cloud. Always up for meeting with people and having good conversations. Learn more about me on LinkedIn, follow my tech posts (and memes!) on Twitter, and contact me at vkmc@redhat.com.

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Philip I. Thomas · November 12, 2024

I just published "What I'm up to - November 2024" on my website - check it out:

www.philipithomas.com/posts/what-...

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Kaley Wendorf

Hi! I'm Kaley and I'm passionate about health. To me, health is expansive: social, mental, spiritual, AND physical. I love to push myself to new limits and bring others along for the journey. Right now, I'm doing that as a boxing coach, the founder of a women's health platform (ALEYE), a musician (with my band Alltimatum and solo), and as a full time student at Chicago Booth. You can connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, of follow along here for email updates (eventually!).

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Harry Moy

I'm a software engineer working in London for a Series A FinTech. Away from my day job, I angel invest, build products (such as Nearly) and organising a tech week event in London for 2024. On this page, I write about miscellaneous thoughts and give life updates. You can subscribe below if you think they're interesting. Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter, it's where I spend far too much of my time. And if you'd like to talk to me about something, you can book some time for a call here.

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Mairin Jerse

Hi there - I'm Mairin Jerse, a recent graduate The University of Chicago Booth in Chicago, IL and the Director of Product at Page Vault, a growth stage legal tech startup. Before grad school, I spent four years @ GE Healthcare on their digital team, developing software, launching MVPs, deploying SaaS products to a global user base, and experimenting with bringing new tech into an old company on a globally distributed team. One meaningful experience I had was leading the product strategy for a process mining software, Celonis, an experience that helped jump start my interest in startups and the power of technology to solve age-old and modern questions and to shake industry architectures. While @ Booth, I've explored my interest in startups and entrepreneurship, spending the better half of my first year exploring startup ideas in the femtech space, before joining Techstars as a Business Development Associate and then fintech startup Aeropay as their second Product Manager. While I have spent most of my career in the healthcare sector, I am excited to expand my technical and product skills into other domains, such as fintech and AI. At Booth, I'm an active member of Chicago Women in Booth, Booth Technology Group, and I am a Co-Chair of The Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Club (EVC). This past June, I started my full time role as the Director of Product at Page Vault, where I'm building the product organization from the ground up. Outside of school & work, I'm an avid reader - I enjoy a mix of non-fiction, historical biographies, psychological explorations, and novels. My ultimate happy place is on my couch with Netflix's Cracking Birchwood Fireplace roaring on my television, no plans for the day, & a book in my hands. Would love to chat about: • Product management, product strategy, tech strategy, industry architecture • Startups, startup strategy, customer discovery, product market fit • Headspace, meditation, flow • Books, emerging authors Cheers! Mairin Phonetics: Mairin Jerse = "M-Erin Jerce"

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David H. Hagan

Hey, there 👋. I'm David, the founder and CEO of QuantAQ, a startup working to make actionable air quality information more accessible. I spun the company out of my Ph.D. work at MIT where I wrote my dissertation on "Measuring ambient air quality using low-cost sensors". In my spare time, I advise startups, do some data science consulting, and am a topic editor for the Journal of Open Source Software. I'm always happy to grab a coffee and chat about technology, startups, and/or science. I can be reached on LinkedIn or at david.hagan@quant-aq.com.

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Sabrina Chow

Hi! My name is Sabrina Chow and I'm a current MBA student at Chicago Booth. I come from an operating background, leading Oscar Health's 1st-ever Center of Excellence, a centralized hub through which all contracting and partnership strategy, operations, and analytics are managed. Prior to Oscar, I was a Digital Strategy Consultant at IBM Consulting, advising financial services clients from small FinTechs to large international banks. Having solved problems of high complexity and in regulated industries, I'm taking my operating muscles to early stage investing, starting @ Overton Venture Capital, an early stage fund focusing on innovations and technologies that shape consumer lives, including future of work, health and wellness, and digital media. I then worked with the Translink Capital team looking at B2B SaaS, future of work, and digital health (overview of the NextGen Workforce here). Now with the Springbank team, I'm investing across the ecosystem and infrastructure of the care economy. Early stage areas I am interested in and have diligenced: • Digital health & wellness • Future of work & gig economy (including fintech and insurance solutions) • Media & consumer tech • Supply chain & e-commerce I am passionate for tech-enabled products and services that address underserved communities. Currently working on... • CB Capital - a Chicago Booth student-run investment fund launched in 2021 that invests in entrepreneurs within the Booth student and alumni network • Leading Chicago Women in Business - Chicago Booth's full-time MBA women's group More... LinkedIn

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Joe Daft

Hi 👋 I'm Joe, Founder and MD over at Autrix Automation. I come from an agricultural, practically focused family, but my career has been in technical operations spanning manufacturing, e-commerce, telecommunications and local government globally over the last 17 years. Throughout my career in technical operations, I have specialised in seeking and applying new technologies to streamline processes whilst maintaining the simplicity of operations. Having solved numerous challenges and participated in projects ranging from warehouse operations, global ERP project rollouts (circa €15m) and building international relations, I am now applying my knowledge and skillset within the warehouse automation space by specialising in management across consultancy, sourcing, evaluation, design and implementation of a wide range of AMR-based robotics into key sectors including 3PL, manufacturing, logistics and e-commerce. I’m a boots-on-the-ground kind of guy, and I love meeting new clients, and their operations, testing theories and proving how new technology and operations can work together. 🔗 Connect with me on LinkedIn 📬 Send a message via Signal or WhatsApp 🤖 Explore warehouse automation with Autrix

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Jopie Seimons

Who are you, Jopie?Jopie Seimons is a Quality Assurance Engineer who works for Doctorly. What do you do, Jopie?I specialize in testing software and writing software to ensure the work we test does not regress over time once tested. To be more exact, I test Medical Practitioner Software. I like this. What matters to you, Jopie?I value honesty, open-mindedness, willingness and pure grit. I believe hard work will always prevail, especially if talent decides not to show up on time. I am passionate about problem-solving, conflict resolution, and helping a team deliver the best quality they can with the resources at their disposal. So this whole thing about QA, give me the pitch..Building software with testability baked in from the inception of a Software Project will ensure that the solution stands against the test of time. Why should I believe you, Jopie?A former Software Developer with 15 years of experience, I have concluded that Quality Assurance is an essential part of the Software Development Process, and deserves to be treated with respect. I strive to ensure our line work receives first-class treatment, which is a prerequisite for a successful Software Project. Anything else I should not know?I have hobbies (unfortunately): • Gaming • Currently, I am a cursed e-racer. I race with superior delusion on IRacing - you can find me on the IRacing.com Platform under user name Jopie Seimons (#875926) • My fake racer e-rating: [Fake Racing. It is like real racing, but it is fake.] • YouTube Channel for my random droppings on all things Gaming: Link • Doom Eternal Rip and Tear 🤘 • Metal • S.Y.L • Devin Townsend • Meshuggah • NiN • HEALTH • 80s music • Psytrance • Twilight • Rubix Qube

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Matt Mayo

Join me as I embark on adventures near and far. Welcome to my site – the digital crossroads where tales of adventure and the pursuit of wonder converge. Here, you’ll see what I've been up to as a chronicle of my journeys. I treat is as an alternative to mainstream social media - someplace where my memories can be shared and relived. UpdatesMissouri -> California / Mar '24 London, Istanbul / Nov Dec '23 Dallas, Little Rock / Oct '23 Arkansas / Sep '23 Wyoming, Nevada, Utah and Colorado / Aug '23 California -> Missouri / July '23 AdventuresJoshua Tree National Park Lake McClure

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Sinan Ozdemir

Hi! My name is Sinan Ozdemir. I'm an AI expert, consultant, author, and founder. • The author of Quick Start Guide to LLMs (companion Github) and the AI Office Hours newsletter • Founder of two funded AI startups, one acquired, one still going: LoopGenius • Book 1:1 Time with me on Intro :)

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Kerry Ivan Kurian

Spending time together in awareness, integrity and love is the ultimate positive sum game. How does that work? Where does it lead? Let's find out, together! 🤘🧘🏽🌞 Learn more about me on LinkedIn. Schedule to meet me on Fantastical.

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For 15 years, I'd been the first product leader at early-stage organizations. A bunch was at my own startup, where, despite exiting to Google, I discovered I was a better head of product than entrepreneur. Since then, I’ve run Product at Gasbuddy (consumer mobile, fintech, B2B Saas), Catalina Digital (martech, retail), Alyce (enterprise SaaS), and Brigit (consumer mobile fintech). I’ve stepped back from salaried work to be primary parent, and when not making lunches, scheduling doctor’s appointments, helping with homework, and nagging my kids to fold laundry, I provide coaching, mentorship, and advisory founders, solo PMs, and first-time heads of product at early stage companies. Mostly, though, I just try to be helpful. If it's interesting, you can learn more about my coaching work at https://joshua.herzig-marx.com. But mostly I just want to be helpful. Feel free to set up a meeting (I have an open calendar), shoot me an email, or message me on just about any product or tech industry slack you can find. Beyond my own writing, here are some more resources: 🤔 Resources to become a better PM 🤓 Other coaches for folks at early-stage companies

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Jack O'Hara

Hi I'm Jack 👋 I'm a Software Engineer living in Sydney. I like building things with AWS, CDK, Java, and TypeScript. What I'm currently up to: • 🔆 Exploring Sydney and beyond • ☁️ Studying for the AWS Solutions Architect Professional • 🎹 Learning Piano • 🎼 Making tunes on Ableton - have a listen • 🏄 Falling off surfboards

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Philip I. Thomas

I'm making Find AI, a search engine for people and companies. I write and explore at Contraption Co. I'm a former digital nomad based in NYC, and I'm interested in coffee, craftsmanship, fermentation, and urbanism. In the past, I made Moonlight and Staffjoy. Find me on LinkedIn and Github, and contact me at mail@philipithomas.com.

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