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Airbnb: Joe Gebbia (2017)

发表于 2017-08-28 adchoices gebbia idea

We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Airbnb. A chance encounter with a stranger gave Joe Gebbia…

Spindrift: Bill Creelman

发表于 2020-01-13 chai creelman spindrift

Bill Creelman graduated from college in 1996 with a business plan — to sell smoked fish from Nantucket. But over time, that idea morphed unpredictably into a br…

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn

发表于 2020-05-25 yahoo recaptcha ahn

In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo's biggest problems: automated bo…

ClassPass: Payal Kadakia

发表于 2020-06-29 kadakia classpass payal

In the late 2000s, Payal Kadakia was working a corporate job and running an Indian dance company on the side. When a search for a ballet class yielded a confusi…

Can You Patent a Pizza?

发表于 2024-03-06 mongiello crust stuffed

Close your eyes and imagine this: a world without stuffed crust pizza. We know!—but that was the dismal state of the Italian flatbread scene before 1985, when A…

Data exploration, manually and intentionally

发表于 2026-11-06 exploratory exploration process

Randy Au on the manual process of exploratory data analysis that is still… Tags: automation , Large Language Model , Randy Au