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Noam Bardin

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Founder - Post News former Waze CEO (2009-21)

Tel Aviv, Israel
Joined April 2009
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Just wanted to assure everyone that you can post any link you want on . We make it easy to add all your social media links to your profile since none of us only use one platform. Freedom = Choice
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In case I get kicked off this platform... So long and thanks for all the fish...
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2 years
Quick update - we are closing in on 100K people in our waitlist. late last night we rolled out the first version of Search (🎉) and are fixing bugs as fast as we can. The Post Team has been working around the clock and weekend (thank you!!!) and we hope to be able
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This doesn't need an explanation or data science background
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Elon should spend the $1B to walk away and come back in a month, getting Twitter for $20B saving $20B+
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2 years
if you signed up for the waitlist over a week ago - you have been approved and probably lost the email. You can try here with the same email you signed up with and should be OK
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It's been two week since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”? When Waze was acquired by Google, most of the people who know me did not believe I would las... 280/16,532
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Noam Bardin
2 years
of the platform and I want to make it as diverse as possible within our rules (i.e. no nazi's, antisemites, bigots, racists, homophobes, misogynists - there are enough platforms for them). Please be patient and believe me we are working as hard (-core) as possible
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2 years
Lots of people have been asking about jobs at Post. We are a tiny team struggling and need help from LOTS of amazing people BUT can only handle people experienced in our specific technology stack. I know engineers can learn anything but we don't have time for it at this point.
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2 years
I've been working lately on the space between News & Social Media. I believe the future newspaper is the feed and want to make it more civil for users, profitable for publishers and better for society. If you care about these issues, join our beta @
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2 years
to criticize me (its allowed). My logic is to balance the date people signed up, what they shared about themselves, content creators and content consumers, diversity of age, politics, profession, gender, race, sexual orientation, sense of humor etc. The initial users set the tone
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Thank you to the 60,000 people who joined out waitlist. We are slowly letting people in since we still miss some key features. We are working hard to get them launched so we can let more people in. Please be patient and do tell us about yourself in the free text
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2 years
let more of you in as soon as possible. Believe me, no one wants to let you in more than I do but we have to consider the implications and be ready. There are a few conspiracy theories swirling about on who we are letting in. First of all, I am making the decision so feel free
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Super important read on the state of our democracy and the upholding of the constitution
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Dan Rather
3 years
"I knew Jim Crow. I was born into its time, lived it, and reported on it. I saw monumental laws attack it and seek to kill it. But Jim Crow still lives..." Our latest #Steady post examines the effects of Jim Crow still active today. Read in full here:
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Bottom up leadership vs top down management
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Michael McFaul
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No comment needed.
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@gtconway3d thank you. I had assumed we would have more time and but things accelerated out of our control. Having to cram 6 months of work into 3 weeks. Please invite more democracy loving republicans - we need more conservative voices on Post
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Please, only if you have real experience with this stack (save yourself and us the time), send your info below
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Yesterday was my last day @Google / @Waze . Thank you Larry, @sundarpichai and Don Harrison for leaving @waze independent and allowing us to thrive. I will be reflecting & writing about what I learned. Anything you want to know about the Waze journey? What should I write about?
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We are looking for (primarily) engineers with a minimum of 5 years experience, preferably 10 & real experience in our stack (built things with it). We are 100% remote but prefer NYC based or EST timezone. Hands on (everybody codes) with options to grow into team leads and above.
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Trust and Safety PM: min 7 years experience in T&S (i.e. have seen it all) at Twitter, Facebook or similar platform, ready to build from scratch at a company that wants to get rid of bad actors. Community and crowdsourced approach (similar to Waze community).
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6 years
Finally launched @waze for @apple Carplay. With iOS12 and the latest Waze version you can have your Waze app on the bigger screen, in your car.
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2 years
TPM: start up, web and mobile experience. Used to caos, changing priorities, undefined requirements and 80/20 deliverables. Must be in the NYC office several days a week
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2 years
Product Designers: must be NYC based & willing to spend a few days a week in the office in the city. Experienced IC to own UI/UX BUT willing to design wireframes to buttons (everyone codes). Experience on complex mobile consumer products. Love pixels but understand constraints
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Noam Bardin
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Daughter #2 : I am not old enough to open a Facebook account Me: of course you are, you have to be over 13 Daughter #2 : no, minimum age for Facebook is 40....
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Noam Bardin
2 years
On the backend (and ops): Cognito, Dynamo, Lambda, Neptune, TypeScript, CDK, Elastic Search/Open Search, Redis/Elasticache. Websockets, Event Driven Architecture, CDK (TypeScript), AWS SDK Experience Rust a plus
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Noam Bardin
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Twitter Trust and Safety PM's - if you get fired, take some time to process. When you feel up to it, please DM me. Would love to talk. #TwitterLayoffs #OneTeam
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Noam Bardin
2 years
@iamguico when we can safely support them
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Noam Bardin
2 years
"Rescinded" has become the best hiring search term on LinkedIn. People are putting it in their LinkedIn profiles - good indication that they passed a hiring bar and got hit by the economy
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"The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google" It's been 10 years since Google acquired Waze, and I thought it would be the right time to tell the story and some of what I learned. In June 2013... (98% more) on Post at
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Noam Bardin
2 years
On the front end (in addition to loving pixels AND performance): extensive React or Vue experience who would be open to learning SOLID.js, SSR experience all in a serverless/AWS/Dynamo environment
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Shit just got real ;-)
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3 years
Machine Learning or AI is a secret code word for a call center in India…
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Noam Bardin
2 years
The Ukrainians prove, again, that you cannot “buy” loyalty, passion conviction. It is earned. As in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam. No amount of money can buy patriotism. Will the Russian soldier give his life for Putins empire? Do they “believe” in their mission like the Ukrainian?
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Noam Bardin
2 years
The remote work question is nuanced and complicated. Humans together in a room create magic. Is that magic worth hiring weaker talent? 2+ hours a day of wasted commuting time? Do all roles, all the time, generate magic? Fascinating time as these issues are being experimented with
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2 years
Ukrainian TikTok explaining how to drive an abandoned Russian tank. These people are AMAZING in their bravery, commitment, adaptability and use of social media!
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Amichai Stein
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האוקראינים מסבירים בטיקטוק: איך לנהוג בטנק רוסי נטוש
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@charles_gaba Good idea...
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Can Western intelligence borrow the Russian playbook and “leak” personal emails, bank statements, WhatsApp conversations of Putin and the Russian billionaires? A chapter from the 2016 elections and Hillary’s emails? I am sure the Russian public would be interested…
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Noam Bardin
2 years
I would argue that a business built on selling people something they don't use, monthly, is not going to be a healthy business... That is thinking about the consumer first.
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Tony Haile
2 years
@cforman @Dupree @willjfang @profgalloway @WSJ @simoncholland @tryscroll @noam @Chronotope @jeffjarvis @pilhofer One other metric that plays its role : the 30-40% of existing monthly subscribers with zero visits in a given month. Switching to a micropayments system would be far more cost effective for them and hugely problematic for the publisher.
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Noam Bardin
4 years
After 12 years at #waze , I announced to our community & team that 2020 will be my last year as Chief Wazer. I want to thank these amazing people, volunteers & employees, for Outsmarting traffic, Together. It's been an honor being part of this mission
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Noam Bardin
1 year
I know some of you have had some issues signing up to Post. We are having a huge surge since yesterday. We increased capacity and there should be no issues to join. or iOS App Store
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Noam Bardin
3 years
"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late" Reid Hoffman
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Noam Bardin
1 year
You can post anything on
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2 years
:-)
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Noam Bardin
4 years
Read @bhorowitz book "What you do is who you are" and found it one of the best books on corporate culture. The personal actions of the leader are what creates the culture, not perks, slogans, documents or signs on walls. Actions>words>theories>perks
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Noam Bardin
2 years
No consumer cares about your tech stack or ideology. Just age old “what’s in it for me”
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Noam Bardin
3 years
You know you made it when you are a term in the NYT Crossword puzzle...
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Any NYC based Meta or Twitter communication/PR people? If you have been laid off (or had enough) and looking, talk to me. Same for NYC based Trust and Safety PMs
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Noam Bardin
2 years
I have to admit that @tryramp is the most exciting thing in the new ops stack used by startups today. I am obsessed with it
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Noam Bardin
2 years
The latest election results, are demographics at work. In the US, the younger you are the more liberal, multi-ethnic and educated. In Israel, the younger you are, the more religious, autocratic and nationalist you are. Each country faces different futures as population ages…
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Noam Bardin
6 years
after a long journey, “Waze Carpool is now Available Nationwide”, my thoughts on why this is so important
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Noam Bardin
3 years
@rakyll I guess I wasn’t clear enough. I am a big believer in equity and at Waze everyone got equity and did well. Everyone worked hard as well and we built the company together. My point is that today, at Corp-Tech, equity is given without any risk or hard work so it’s just comp
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Noam Bardin
3 years
The only group actually fighting authoritarianism in the US vs talking about it, @ProjectLincoln . Just made a donation to The Lincoln Project
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2 years
My daughter was at UVA this weekend at a sports competition. What is wrong with us?
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Noam Bardin
2 years
If @amazon or @Google did 1% of what people accuse them of doing, they would be an order of magnitude larger. Same with the government or the Illuminati. Humans are the same everywhere so all organizations suffer from the same issues: being closer to the DMV than a movie villain
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Noam Bardin
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Like most of you, I have become more and more worried about the state of the world. I fear that humanity has two main challenges - a hardware challenge (Climate change) and a software challenge (preserving a free, liberal, fact- and science... 280/5,576
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Everyone is a small government libertarian until a hurricane hits you. Being a nation means looking out for each other, not just for yourself. If you voted against FEMA, feel free to refuse aid….
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3 years
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Noam Bardin
1 year
Does anyone know how to get tickets to the Elon-Zuck fight?
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Noam Bardin
3 years
This post seems to have struck a nerve with many people so I will be on "The Techmeme Experience" on Clubhouse tonight at 9pm ET / 6pm PT with @chrismessina and @brianmcc if you want to join the discussion.
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Noam Bardin
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It's been two week since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”? When Waze was acquired by Google, most of the people who know me did not believe I would las... 280/16,532
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@babarganesh Thought I was clearer - I love the company and the mission and would have stayed the rest of my life. I got worn down by the signal vs noise. Found myself spending most of my time on non-user issues
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Noam Bardin
2 years
I came for the “cold start problem” and stayed for the “company building”. @andrewchen ’s book “the cold start problem” has become my #1 book recommendation for post PMF founders. In a way, growth of any product is a network effect, just some are very weak
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Noam Bardin
1 year
Post News is finally in the iPhone app store. Check it out
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Empathy...
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Noam Bardin
3 years
If you work at Facebook, you could work at any other tech company for the same or better comp. This means YOU have chosen this path over others. Everything going on there is on YOU as well, not just "Corporate". Imagine having to explain why you worked for Philip Morris or Exxon.
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Noam Bardin
2 years
So true. I also find that leaving a good chunk of the definition to the engineers works really well. The PM is not great at finding all the edge cases and just duplicates the work the engineers do anyway. A real partnership between eng and PM means leaning on each other
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Shreyas Doshi
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One problem with having a high ratio of PMs to other functions is that energetic PMs will find ways to start new work, leading to lots of disconnected work across teams, which then makes management think there’s a coordination problem, for which the obvious solution is… more PMs
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2 years
@theKeenUrbanist We are super early and building out functionality. There are a million things missing. Thats why it is still closed.
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Noam Bardin
5 years
Great article about the heart of Waze, our community. They help over 115 Million Wazers, over 1000 municipalities monthly! Big THANK YOU to all our community members and @BrandonMolner , Chet, Larry, Abigail, Kent, Brett, chad and @pdberger for going deep
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Noam Bardin
4 years
I think we have hit peak SPAC and it's 1999 all over again. Sub $1M revenue company raising $250M via SPAC... This is great for the early stage investors, bankers, lawyers but will kill the company. Stock market is not built for pre-revenue and will eat them up. So sad, great co.
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Noam Bardin
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As a startup, your competition is not large companies or small startups, its your users thinking your product is dumb...
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Noam Bardin
2 years
The "Quiet Resignation" is not new - most people tend to do the minimum to get by. What changed in the last few years is their expectation to be promoted like their harder working colleagues. If they are now accepting slow/no advancement or being let go, then it is progress.
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Our American values...
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looks like Truth Social took @reidhoffman advice to heart "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late"
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Crowdsourcing at its best. The city of SELANGOR in Malaysia is asking citizens to report potholes on @waze so they can fix them.
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
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Noam Bardin
7 years
When a private company does the work of gov. Not sure if it's good or bad... @Tesla @elonmusk show real leadership
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Noam Bardin
3 years
NYC is back but some things have changed. Yellow Cabs are now better than Ubers! Faster to get, cleaner, cheaper (-25 to 50%), more plentiful. Serious narrative violation.
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Noam Bardin
3 years
Perhaps healthcare insurance companies should raise premiums for unvaccinated? Like smoking? After all, it is the American way to outsource governing to private companies along economic incentives…
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Noam Bardin
2 years
On a very different level - why passionate startups win vs “hired guns” from corporations. Money does not solve all problems
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Noam Bardin
2 years
@benedictevans Google docs kept/keeps trying to replicate MS Office in a browser instead of rethinking what a doc is. Notion is what Google docs should have evolved into. More jarring is that MS Office is still the standard for legal contracts, negotiations - that is a startup waiting to happen
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Noam Bardin
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I want to welcome @wired to @Post . As a premium #tech publication, most of Wired's content is paywalled via a subscription. On Post, you can read specific articles in a pay-per-read model. If you find yourself reading many...
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Noam Bardin
5 years
Gives me chills every time I watch it...
@btaylor
Bret Taylor
5 years
A masterclass in marketing from one of the greatest ever, Steve Jobs. Marketing is about values.
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Noam Bardin
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I have been asked about the mood in Israel and the only way I can describe it is sadness. Deep sadness. There is no joy to be found anywhere. The sadness is on many levels...
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Noam Bardin
2 years
Google surveys is shutting down ;-( It was such a great product... anyone know an independent option of the same functionality?
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