1/ I'm insanely excited to announce what I've been working on for the last year:

Teamflow, a virtual office that makes you feel like a team again. Coming out of stealth and announcing our $3.9M seed round today 🎉🎉🎉

2/ @getTeamflow lets you see your video in an office where your team can hang out.

You can move yourself around, and only hear and see people around you.

So when you want to chat with someone, you can just drag yourself over and say hi — no more juggling with Zoom links
3/ You can also open apps in the space, like Figma, Trello or Google Docs.

Everybody can see and use them together — so you can meet around your sprint board in the morning for standup.
4/ You can customize and furnish meeting rooms, which persist — so you can create:
- one room for a project launch, with tasks, metrics dashboard…
- one room for each 1:1 with your meeting notes
- one game room with a bunch of online games
[- one room to bring them all…]
5/ I actually had this idea when my team at Uber had to go remote, and I felt both camaraderie and productivity fall off a cliff.

We had an outage one day. Not my 1st, but remote made this one especially painful — jumping from Zoom to Zoom to coordinate ops, marketing, eng…
6/ I sat back on my seat exhausted at the end of the day, turned around, saw a team having beers right next to me, and realized what we'd been missing. That was in 2018.

Fast forward 2 years, Covid hit, and the entire world is feeling the same pain.
7/ The data is showing this everywhere. Engineers are less productive. Remote workers say they miss face-to-face interactions and the easiness of working together in person.
8/ And on the flip side, there's a mountain of research showing that teams are happier, more engaged, more productive when they can meet in person. https://t.co/BLukQApXav
9/ After 50,000 hours of meetings on Teamflow's private beta, we think we can make remote work not just as good, but better than in-person.

Users are raving about us — we receive this kind of message every single day. Our latest NPS is 67 (compared to Zoom's 21 per @usefyi)
10/ We brought together a world-class team to build this, honestly the best I've ever worked with — the creator of the world's biggest 2D WebGL library describes 2 of our engineers as "some of the best I have ever worked with" https://t.co/ao5qA8wB8Z
11/ Today, we're coming out of stealth, announcing our $3.9M seed, and opening our waitlist — you can sign up at https://t.co/CZeV8rqR0y

I'll see you at the office! :)
Teamflow lands $3.9 million for a productive virtual HQ platform by @nmasc_ https://t.co/UxYrApcET8
Look at the date 👀 https://t.co/ui14i9gMpY
More than 1,000 signups to the waitlist in an hour!

We're onboarding people as fast as we can — in the meantime, here's a video if you want to see the product in action https://t.co/QfA2lb8U5u

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Recently, the @CNIL issued a decision regarding the GDPR compliance of an unknown French adtech company named "Vectaury". It may seem like small fry, but the decision has potential wide-ranging impacts for Google, the IAB framework, and today's adtech. It's thread time! 👇

It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details):
https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha

I've read it so you needn't!

Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.

The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.

Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
"I lied about my basic beliefs in order to keep a prestigious job. Now that it will be zero-cost to me, I have a few things to say."


We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.

Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)

It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.

Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".