Chris Polk
@chpolk
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created consumer things, celebrity emoji keyboards & Kanye tried to sue me @yemojiapp Previously helped create @polyworkhq @getquip @gboard @trycaviar
New York, NY
Joined November 2010
My weekend side project is done! I wanted to gain some experience working with leaderboards and recharts so I made a simple reaction time game for the kids. Now, I just need some data to populate the leaderboards. It's set to last no more than 60s per game and allows you to track
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I asked a couple people in a position to know what percentage of top Democrats privately think Biden should drop out of the race, and their answers were 75% and 80%. I don't see how any campaign recovers from that.
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An unbelievable amount of talent is tied up in go-nowhere startups that had strong initial raises and are entering their third+ year without traction. Founder time, employee time, VC time all being consumed when they should just close it down now and go do better things.
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Becoming an early startup employee has become a hard thing to rationalize recently. My whole life career has been in startups outside of two corporate situations. Watching your equity as the 1st and 2nd employee disappear sucks while knowing others cashed out before you.
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On Equity and Startup Employees This is not a post about how I've shipped my 1,000,000th Shopify order or how my conversation rate is 7.28% and I'm now on yacht because thats what you do right?! While I celebrate all I and the teams I've worked with have accomplished at
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Iβm giving away 5 copies of my Hotwire+Tailwind course for free. The winners will be picked at random, to anyone who retweets this tweet. What even is it and why do I want it? π§΅ 1/6
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Such a great Warriors comeback. Iβm down for a knicks and warriors final.
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If you're an ambitious engineering student and you're wondering what to work on to advance your career, you're asking the wrong question. Work on whatever you're most excited about; if you're ambitious, your excitement will outweigh the hotness of the field you choose.
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Everyone who wants to be a Heroku replacement is 10x more complicated than Heroku.
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If you start with a system whose design has been compromised to make it run efficiently, you'll get to do excitingly complicated things to compensate. Many of your contemporaries will be impressed, but no one in the future will care.
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Loving spatial audio on Apple TV. I may feel like a nerd wearing headphones while watching a movie and eventually walking to the bathroom to realize this but it hits different.
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π A new episode! "Turbo Native & Hotwire - How Polywork Supercharges Development." Listen:
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To my teammates @meghanelyons @cssjg @chpolk @me_breuer and many others Im so proud to be on this journey with you! π To our advisors @cassidoo @EmilyKager @engineering_bae @brian_lovin @kvlly @ASpittel & @adellecharles thank you for your help shaping Polywork! π
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We're excited to announce that we raised our Series A funding from @sriramk at @a16z + some amazing founders! βΊοΈπ: Instagram's @mikeyk Stripe's @patrickc Reddit's @alexisohanian Product Hunt's @rrhoover & many more!! Read it here https://t.co/7TgmGp1kjV by @meliarobin ππ
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Look, ma! I'm on TV!
We're not in Belfast anymore mum!! β€οΈβοΈ The amazing and formidable @cassidoo talking about @PolyworkHQ on @GMA this morning!! π€―π€―βοΈ in the next 30 minutes! Proud Day!! ππ
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