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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

developers showing off all the stuff they built while the PM was on vacation

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Alain Meier

@alain

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Today, we're announcing something very simple: Sign up with Plaid. That “simple” thing increases end-to-end sign up rates by 10 - 25%, and we're calling it Plaid Layer. Here’s how we give you the Internet’s fastest, highest converting financial onboarding experience 🧵

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

You either die an entrepreneur or live long enough to see yourself become a VC

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@alain

7 years

@tonyheally Splootin Samoyed

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Alain Meier

@alain

10 years

Your weekend is my opportunity.

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

A couple of new @Plaid ID Verification features today. 🪄 Identity Autofill: Increase US ID verification conversion by 4 - 20% by fast tracking PII entry ⌨️ Behavioral Analytics: Catch 2.5-3% more fraud by analyzing typing behavior Included, for free, for all of our customers

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Remember that emoji started as an optional Japanese keyboard in iOS settings only to be made default due to frequent activation. If you have product market fit, your product will drag itself out of the depths of UX hell to succeed

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

It's only been 4 months since @CognitoHQ joined @Plaid and we're already launching our joint product, and it's *really incredible*.

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Alain Meier

@alain

5 years

Apple shutting down FB and Google apps are distractions from the Facetime privacy bug

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

The history (and future) of ID verification: 2008 - 2014: Credit bureau checks + "what color was your Nissan?" 2014 - 2020: ID doc and selfie checks popularized by crypto exchanges 2020 - 2023: Phone-based identity + auth 2023+: Plaid Remember Me

Zach Bruhnke

@zbruhnke

1 year

After a decade (literally) of me bugging the hell out of everyone I met who worked at @Plaid to build this I am SO happy to see it go live. Even if people don't realize it yet, this is big, and its a huge win for consumers. Congrats @zachperret

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

i will never become culturally geriatric. nothing the gen zs do will ever offend me the things:

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

@ankurnagpal @usealloy We've got paygo-friendly options with our ID verification product here at @Plaid :) You'll get a lot more value for money with us (and a great pass rate to boot). DM me if you want to be connected to someone.

Identity Verification - Global IDV to Ensure KYC Compliance | Plaid

Verify your users’ identities, around the world. Ensure know your customer (KYC) and customer due diligence (CDD) compliance while improving conversion rates.

plaid.com

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

The ability to endure discomfort is one of the greatest predictors for success across disciplines The best athletes, entrepreneurs, interviewers, mathematicians… you name it

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

"I have industry knowledge, I just need a blockchain person" is the new "I have a business plan, I just need a technical co-founder"

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Alain Meier

@alain

9 months

Competent people just want to do great work. Keeping incompetent people around isn't just neutral, it signals to the competent people that their distinguished effort isn't appreciated and will naturally drive them out

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

My best product designs usually come from spending more raw hours on a single screen than you'd ever think makes sense. There's no magic to it.

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

The best entrepreneurs I know are deeply self-skeptical, bordering on insecure Never underestimate the power of people who feel like the world doesn’t recognize their worth ✨ When the self-doubt is replaced by external validation, hustle goes to zero

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Alain Meier

@alain

10 years

@collision the classic $860 million switcheroo.

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Alain Meier

@alain

12 years

Blog post: Want to be more secure? Build two-factor authentication into your webapp http://t.co/ledVjJcE

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

Give a man an automated workflow and he’ll optimize a task; teach a man to make an automated workflow and he'll never get work done again

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

I think @Bloom and @balance_io are UX-first crypto sister companies

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 month

1. 📱 You send us your user's phone number when they're signing up for your service. From that, Plaid tells you whether that user is in the Plaid network 2. ⚡ In-network users are given the choice to sign up instantly with Plaid. Layer authenticates the user, and then presents

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@alain

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Some of my favorite key features: 🔑 Next-level user authentication, powered by direct-to-carrier SIM authentication, our ML models for thwarting bad actors, Passkeys for seamless login, and our network of trusted devices 📊 You can make sure that only users who have *exactly

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 months

Most product managers are painfully mid. The only PMs who break out exhibit at least one of the following: - Design ability - Coding skills - Deep GTM execution skills - 99th percentile taste Otherwise, they’re destined for a career of filling out Google Docs

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

It's no coincidence that the people who respond to Slacks the quickest, no matter the time of day, also tend to have the highest work output

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

The late-cycle trend for crypto bubbles previews the primary narrative of the next one. 2013/14: Ethereum crowdsale Became 2017: ICO mania 2017/18: Cryptokitties Became 2021: NFT mania, BAYC 2021/22: Decentralized social media Becomes 2025: ?

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

Miami tech scene was a zero interest rate phenomenon

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

Hard times create strong founders strong founders create good times good times create weak founders and weak founders create hard times

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Nintendo isn’t a competitor to Sony or Microsoft. They’re the world’s best toy company

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

me: time to fucking focus. i will absolutely crush + annihilate my work for the next millennium the music i put on:

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 months

The concept of having people at your company who are very competent and have 0 fear of being fired is extremely underrated. There’s a reason they can get so much more done than those who are optimizing for optics

Vic 🌮

@VicVijayakumar

8 months

Every company needs 2-3 senior+ engineers who have fuck you money or just have 0 fear of getting fired. Then when the architect or tech fellow or whoever unveil their new plan, those engineers unmute to say wtf is this, we're not moving everything into Lambda, are you high???

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

Buying Microsoft Word for Business is kind of like the startup equivalent of selling your soul to the devil

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 months

Holy shit I'm designing with inner shadows, bezels, button gradients, and depth again for the first time since 2012 We're so back

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

The #1 rule of crypto winter is that it has to bleed so hard that even diehards wonder if it will ever come back We aren’t there yet 🥲

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

budget cuts have reached Stripe’s twitter animations 💀

Stripe

@stripe

2 years

We’ve shipped a few Stripe Issuing updates. ⬇️ Signature on delivery is no longer required to receive cards. 📬

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

The year is 2025 Your employee DMs you to say they have lost their company stock because they sent it to a non-ERC20 compatible wallet

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

Unpopular opinion: frequent cross-functional celebration is a sign of organizational dysfunction

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

One of the unstated benefits of running a profitable/high efficiency team is that every new day taps into the same dopamine cycle as “one more turn” from turn-based strategy games. Tight feedback loops gamify the startup experience, creating an unstoppable machine ⚙️

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

I am about 90% confident that I am better at designing when I wear my hipster glasses

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Alain Meier

@alain

12 years

@mantia My new favorite game is "guess which 2 colors iTunes will sample from the album art"

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

If you support crypto projects or companies who have not been advised + audited by security experts on organization-level security, push them to do so. It's going to be nasty

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

When we were running @getcognito , we once asked in the YC forum what the best way to get yield on our undeployed capital was Everyone ridiculed us. One of the partners told us “it sends shivers up their spine” How the world has changed since then

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Alain Meier

@alain

10 months

@arvanaghi By that logic why would @JoinMeow make more when you custody more of someone’s money? There’s no banker carrying money bags to the Treasury

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 months

Junior manager mistake: the goal of a leader isn't to make your team happy It's to make them feel like the company is winning, and that they're contributing to that. Happiness usually follows, but is not the goal in and of itself.

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 months

The health of your product and engineering organization is inversely proportional to the time it takes to ship a feature like dark mode

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

Come join us at Plaid Forum on May 19, I'll be talking about all things identity and will be sharing a sneak peek into what's next re: Cognito + Plaid 👀

Plaid

@Plaid

2 years

Fintech is on 🔥 and Plaid Forum is here to tell you all about it. We're bringing all the trends and new product announcements that you need to know about on May 19. RSVP now:

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

Elon Musk has 3 primary jobs: - CEO @ SpaceX - CEO @ Tesla - Making all entrepreneurs feel inadequate

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Alain Meier

@alain

5 years

@arvanaghi Guest appearance from

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Open source should be added to the Civilization tech tree. What else do you think should be added?

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

Your resume is great and all but I was really hoping to see Microsoft Word, teamwork and communication on there

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

Someone should make a service that lets you opt-in to receiving really badly written sales pitches and call it LinkedIn

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

@Mangan150 Diabetes and serum ferritin concentration study "the odds ratios for newly diagnosed diabetes were 4.94"

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

If there ever were a time for @getcognito identity attestations on the @BloomToken network, it’s now.

Giant Equifax data breach: 143 million people could be affected

Equifax, the credit reporting behemoth, said on Thursday that it is the victim of a massive security breach.

money.cnn.com

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

Health metric for building products: How many degrees of separation (PMs, PMM, EM, managers, etc) are there between your developer and the customer? 🧮 Scorecard: 0 = Bootstrapping founder 1 = Scrappy startup 2 = Growth startup 3 = Stagnating 4+ = Goodbye

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Even if blockchain tech doesn’t interest you, the massive number of A-players entering the space should

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

A more honest statement for most people is “I want to receive critical feedback and I want better awareness of how people see me in the long run, but it still feels bad to receive it in the short run” But where is the signaling value in that 😅

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Have you heard of our lord and savior, Blockchain Technology?

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

Pounds of sugar consumed on average per person per year: 1820: 2lbs 1970: 123lbs 2014: 153lbs

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 months

gimme that imax google doc. im ready to mainline product review documents. snort engineering specs and engulf my vision in insightful google comments starting with "I would like to challenge you all to think holistically about..."

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

Surrounding yourself with health-conscious people is 80% of the battle to live a healthy lifestyle

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

Corporate painting (2023) depicting the negotiation of the SaaS vendor renewal

Propagandopolis

@propagandopolis

1 year

North Korean painting (2009) depicting the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953.

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@alain

2 months

We’re so back

London Breed

@LondonBreed

2 months

. @NintendoAmerica just announced they are opening a second store in the U.S. — right here in the ❤️ of San Francisco. This is great news for Union Square and fans from everywhere! We’re excited for San Francisco’s future and look forward to welcoming this iconic brand to our

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@alain

7 months

I’m done designing vanilla user interfaces. They’re a solved problem. Easy. Give me SwiftUI Metal shaders, 3D spaces, and mix-blend-mode textures with lighting effects

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Alain Meier

@alain

9 months

It’s almost like we realized that product design adulterated with business school dogma was a bad idea

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@ctrlzee

9 months

Design giant @ideo cuts a third of staff and closes offices as the era of design thinking ends

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Something we thought a lot about when designing the @Bloom brand 🤔

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

We handle everything from allowing users to add multiple IDs to their account (have a drivers license and a passport?), to updating their details if they move. And then we secure it behind the best anti-fraud tech available

John Backus

@backus

1 year

We do a lot of neat fraud checks on the backend to ensure the SMS auth in Remember Me is secure: • SIM swapping and account takeover detection • Device fingerprinting to check device reuse • Activity checks to see if the phone line is still active

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@alain

6 years

Car salesman: *slaps roof of the human knee* this bad boy can fit so many evolutionary design flaws

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

I get a thrill every time Microsoft auto updates Microsoft AutoUpdate

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

@terryangelos @dbkahn @CharleyMa I’ve been SIM swapped (multiple) times, too, so this was top of mind. Every single usage of a Remember Me profile checks with cell carriers to make sure there have been no recent SIM swaps, ports, or fishy line activity. If there is, Remember Me is not available and a standard

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

Your open source software is the status quo when you can Google the version number and the top result is yours 9.3.22, 3.6, etc

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

My power went out last night for the most Silicon Valley reason

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Alain Meier

@alain

2 years

hanging out in @brian_armstrong ’s bedroom

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

@devonzuegel - Is Yoshi a horse

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 months

Purely “revenue” or “impact” oriented product management has zero passion for making great things. Your product will always be boring, and your customers will never love what you’ve built

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

Just as a broken escalator temporarily becomes stairs, a clogged ETH mempool means transaction speeds are temporarily as slow as bank wires

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Alain Meier

@alain

11 years

@steveklabnik Did you mean REST of eternity?

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

@selfsovrin @Plaid Yes it does! And our ID verification product has broad international support, too.

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

Scientist: "I have found a way to distill hate into its purest form" > Reveals screen w/ LinkedIn typeset in Comic Sans

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

Regular high glycemic index food destroys insulin sensitivity. 11% increase in diabetes risk per plate white rice.

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Alain Meier

@alain

10 years

Got my first gray hair at the age of 21. Startup aging acceleration: confirmed.

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

Verify once, verify anywhere. Read about it on the @Plaid blog :)

Verify once, verify everywhere with Plaid Identity Verification | Plaid

Learn more about how Plaid’s one-click identity verification experience lets you onboard customers faster while helping you stay KYC compliant.

plaid.com

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Alain Meier

@alain

10 years

. @balajis A great argument for a push payment system with #bitcoin rather than the pull system we currently have. http://t.co/BJTDDDcvIG

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years

There is an irrational amount of responsibility you feel when your friends visit countries that you culturally or genetically identify with

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

@devonzuegel beneath every city lies a sewer

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Alain Meier

@alain

9 years

Amazon Amnesia: when you order something on Amazon and completely forget until you get a shipping confirmation.

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

. @HipChat , in one screenshot

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

If netbook manufacturers designed stairs

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

The speed at which one can go from "I'm the best at this" to "I am the worst at this" is pretty astonishing

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

How to venture capital: [✓] north face jacket [✓] dad jeans [✓] distance yourself from Clinkle

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

where have i seen this before

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

@backus calling it like I see it

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Alain Meier

@alain

8 years

@zumepizza you guys should be open on Saturdays

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

@semil This is an incredible tweet

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Alain Meier

@alain

1 year

This feature is deceptively simple. Under the hood we do a lot to make this seamless for businesses + users without requiring *any integration or process changes required* for either party. It's an order of magnitude improvement on the ID verification experience.

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Alain Meier

@alain

11 years

@realhenrydilly @KevinPaneda @Kingdrewbie18 @sweatbutercream @elijahsb21 Hey guys I'd love to skate.

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Alain Meier

@alain

7 years

A sampling of 181 teachers of the Head Start (nutritional ed) program by US Dept of Health: 24% overweight 55% obese

Head Start teachers are responsible for providing nutrition education to over 1 million low-income children annually, yet little is known about their nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Alain Meier

@alain

9 years

> at airport stranger: do you work in tech? me: yeah stranger: I can tell > not sure if offended

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Alain Meier

@alain

6 years