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- 1. What makes you, you? Genes Instructions Stores DNA from parents on long strings of chemicals (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)
- 2. DOUBLE Order HELIX matters A LOT!!!
- 3. Genome (entire DNA sequence) 3.2 billions of based pairs 9.5 years 10 wpm, 8 hours/day, 50 years
- 4. 6000 8 times to moon! hours to copy! 99.9% identical
- 7. Little bit on Business I’m TERRIBLE at business (Please don’t quote me on any of these!) Helping Saved lot Shedd LOCAL Businesses businesses and improved them a Aquarium ran a Groupon and 14000 people showed up!
- 8. A little bit on Business (Cont.) Finding appropriate merchants and deals Customizing merchant! deals specifically for each Combination of Humans and Algorithms (rare combination)
- 11. A little bit on Business (Cont.) Go Mobile!
- 12. A little bit on Business (Cont.) More than 200 million subscribers
- 13. A little bit on Business (Cont.)
- 14. A little bit on Business (Cont.) Every day sending email to subscribers (BORING! BooOooOo!!!) BUT, editorial to the rescue (and other tricks)
- 15. A little bit on Business (Cont.) The Voice Humans develop smiles as a way to deflect predators in the wild and former bosses in the grocery store! (Deal for a dentist!)
- 16. A little bit on Business (Cont.) Started as less than 20 people 48 countries, 98 offices, more than 10000 people in less than 4 years!
- 17. A little bit on Business (Cont.) Wall: “Are you gonna be one of them?!”
- 18. A little bit on Business (Cont.) I do NOT know! (again please don’t quote me on that! )
- 19. Technical/Engineering side Collaboration becomes harder when a company grows Made Daily up of small teams (5-10 people) Stand up, Weekly meetings, one to one with director of engineering!
- 20. Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Someone you! has done it already & can help Agile/XP/Scrum/etc. What works the best (Inspect & Adapt all you need) Code Quality matters A LOT! Design discussion & consider alternatives
- 21. Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Be open to change (Don’t be defensive about your code!!!) Automated Testing on Different Levels Continuous Refactoring (Boy scout rule)
- 22. Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Big open source community! Pull Requests are more than welcome Help to make things better EVERY where! Don’t re-invent the wheel either use it or improve it!
- 23. Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Fast feedback Trial and error! There is NO ONE answer Do a quick and simple thing, LEARN from it Could save millions of dollars!!!
- 24. Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Self-Growth Book Clubs Clojure Lunch
- 25. Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Pairing on Side-Projects for deliberate practicing Hackathon GeekOn Going year (Bit Coin payments) to Conferences couple times a
- 26. Automated Merchandising Page Real-Estate Widget Development Platform Auction, bidding system Experimentation Learn Framework from and make sense out of data
- 27. Preaching/Advice
- 28. In place to preach am not! Collection of interesting advice from professionals and passionate people in software development and programming!
- 29. What you’re interested in and mostly passionate about FIND! It just your work is NOT! It all your time, nights and weekends TAKES! If you’re a pure tech person and that’s what you’re enjoying then THAT’S IT! Based on your perspective CHOOSE!
- 30. Value a business solely on their share price NEVER! Continuously read/practice/improve Get out of your comfort zone (So many possibilities out there) a better knowledge and understanding of what’s going on under the hood HAVE! Learn things for career’s sake do NOT!
- 31. “An expert is a man who made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow filed!” – Niels Bohr
- 33. More info/links 18 things to know about your genes Groupon Public Facts Interview with Andrew Mason in 60 minutes! Summer Internship at Groupon One on One by Doc Norton Contact/info Links: https://github.com/Sam-Serpoosh https://twitter.com/masihjesus https://masihjesus.wordpress.com https://linkedin.com/in/samserpoosh sam.serpoosh@gmail.com