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Zach Hamed

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Co-founder of @ClayHQ . Previously product lead at @GoldmanSachs , Forbes 30 Under 30, @Harvard CS. Native New Yorker

New York, USA
Joined December 2010
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Zach Hamed
4 months
Seeing my relationships visualized with our new Holodex literally took my breath away. So proud of our team for pushing the limits of what's possible! Check it out at
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Clay
4 months
Clay for Apple Vision Pro — the world’s first immersive network visualization — will be available in the App Store for launch day tomorrow. Sneak peak in the thread below ⬇️
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5 years
ok Twitter, we built the 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝖈𝖗𝖒 we’ve always wanted and would love your thoughts To explain why, we wrote a post about the world’s richest family and 200,000 index cards Sign up for the waiting list and then come back for the thread ⤵️
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1 year
1/ The future of networking has arrived. We’re thrilled to introduce Nexus by @ClayHQ , the first AI navigator for your entire network. The only artificial intelligence that helps you be a better friend & colleague — available today. Our stunning launch video and a quick 🧵👇🏽
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10 months
how it started vs. how it's going
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2 years
We launched on @ProductHunt today. And the reaction to @ClayHQ — and our new product video! — has been overwhelming 🥰 Check out the video, read some of the most touching reviews from Clay members, and join the discussion at 👇🏽
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Zach Hamed
3 years
3 years ago, @Achariam and I began building @ClayHQ : a beautiful, private home for the people & relationships in your life. This week we announced our $8 million fundraise from @ForerunnerVC , @GeneralCatalyst , & an amazing list of angels (more on that later) A few thoughts 🧵👇🏽
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Zach Hamed
7 years
Honored to be named to @Forbes #30under30 ! Come join us + build the most compelling fintech products out there 🙌🏽💹💻
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Zach Hamed
6 years
new personal website because 🤷‍♂️
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Zach Hamed
6 years
Do you have a Twitter account? You know those “Zach liked this tweet” and “Zach followed this user” notifications? Well I made an iOS app that shows the top liked tweets and top followed users in your network It’s kinda useful to summarize your feed and find new content
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Zach Hamed
8 years
The New York Times asked 8 financial experts for an index card-sized version of $ advice:
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29 days
big fan of mercury and @immad , very excited for mercury personal and cant wait for an invite but how many wires are yall sending all the time? should i be sending more wires?? should people be sending me wires?!?!?
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Zach Hamed
5 years
Introducing Clay! You can think of Clay as a cross between a notes app and Instapaper/Pocket, but focused on remembering people and things about them. We wanted it to feel lightweight and magical.
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5 years
@AliBHamed robinhood checking
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Zach Hamed
5 years
As @achariam and I started thinking about the personal CRM, we heard loud and clear: literally 0 people in the world want to use a CRM. All the features you expect from one (funnels! follow-up reminders! ~metadata~! workflows!) are all WAY too cold, transactional, and unfeeling
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Zach Hamed
7 months
New Clay website just dropped and I think it's our most beautiful one yet — the first of a few huge updates coming this week 🚀 to see it live
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Clay
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We gave our website a fresh coat of paint 🎨✨ Check it out at !
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5 years
We want this to be something you're proud to use and have on your homescreen 🙌🏽 So sign up for the waitlist and @ me with thoughts or questions.
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Zach Hamed
7 years
First time a 6 AM wakeup has paid off:
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Zach Hamed
8 years
Updated personal site w/ heart rate & weight stats, let’s see how embarrassing this gets…
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Zach Hamed
6 years
While every new DTC brand was busy dropping $200,000 on design firms for branding work, Amazon got 70+ logos for their generic brands on 99Designs for ~$300 each:
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Zach Hamed
2 years
🚀🚀🚀
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Zach Hamed
2 years
for years, people have wondered what does @kennyg — the sultan of sax, the lord of love ballads, one of the best-selling artists of all time — think about his doppelgänger @JohnExley ? finally, some answers:
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Zach Hamed
10 years
Proud to announce @boweryio is now part of the @Work_Bench community! cc @jerseejess @hvgo http://t.co/zLvRFzIamj
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Zach Hamed
6 years
macaws are loud obnoxious birds which is exactly why you should download this app
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TechCrunch
6 years
Macaw will curate Twitter for you, help expand your network by @sarahintampa
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Zach Hamed
8 years
hmm i wonder what I missed from the RNC today *checks twitter, plays first video*
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Zach Hamed
24 days
"Nobody outside tech and VCs needs something like @ClayHQ " was a popular refrain a few years ago. Today, our customers cover more than half of the Fortune 500, representing everyone from construction companies to airline pilots, wealth managers to surgeons. Here's to 100% 🚀
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Zach Hamed
8 years
✔️ Cooked sous vide steak
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Zach Hamed
5 years
@nbashaw @jtaylorhodge @Bosefina We are - trying to get it right! Small beta should be ready this month, sign up at 🙌🏽 Bo have heard great things from @JohnExley and would love to hear more about your wishlist features here
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Zach Hamed
11 years
New presentation: "Useful Web Tools for Startups, Developers, and Designers" http://t.co/UlJGRDp6
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Zach Hamed
9 years
Most successful @HarvardinTech event in our history. 400 people, Fire Marshall shut down registration. http://t.co/B7txKgYssD
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Zach Hamed
1 year
Heard through the grapevine top plugins that do docs search have processed ~hundreds of millions of tokens thus far...meanwhile we've hit 14 billion in 2 days for @ClayHQ and we're very restrictive with what we index, curious what other folks are seeing as they scale?
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Zach Hamed
8 years
"This 25-year-old founded a new kind of VC that's helped college kids raise over $130 million" Go @badboyboyce !
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Zach Hamed
5 years
We built the *best* search on top of *both* the bio info and your notes. Not only do you get results instantly, we do the hard work of standardizing your notes automagically. It's hard to describe without seeing it, so watch the intro video on the site:
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5 years
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Zach Hamed
1 month
Last week we announced our @ClayHQ app for the @Zapier app store is now live — we had such a lovely time working with their team + building for the platform, and it's already been used 1000s of times to build custom workflows with other apps. Some of my favorite creative uses:
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Zach Hamed
29 days
Choosing a co-founder is among the most consequential choices you can make. I'm lucky to work alongside this gentleman and scholar —  @ClayHQ would be 1% of what it is without him.
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Zach Hamed
12 years
Well-deserved mention of @massivehealth and @square in beautiful "This is How Design Works" site: http://t.co/8W89P7mB /cc @aza @jack
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Zach Hamed
2 years
✌🏽
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Zach Hamed
5 years
So we talked to a lot of people. Like, a lot. And probably half the people we talked to have one or more notes they use to remember things about people they meet. In fact, the people who do are some of our favorite people! Some, like @exleyja , have a separate note per meeting.
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4 years
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Zach Hamed
10 years
The Supreme Court has (finally) agreed to take on a case about software patents: http://t.co/Ud0MAfrBdB // @mcuban
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Zach Hamed
10 years
[New Blogpost] Bye, Google Maps: @Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand UX. http://t.co/nA2VBBBaPj
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Zach Hamed
1 year
Our superstar team at @ClayHQ has been working relentlessly on major releases like this and profile sharing! And we have a bunch more to share over the coming weeks—can't wait to show y’all soon 🚀 *cue windows xp login sound*
@ClayHQ
Clay
1 year
⊞ We've been cooking up a little something to make Clay available to even more people — and are proud to announce that we've brought all the power of Clay to Windows!
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Zach Hamed
9 years
Finally get to share a bit about what I've been working on—more to come! http://t.co/eXqx0d6MwA http://t.co/gnq4a0mFa8
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Zach Hamed
2 years
When we started @ClayHQ , our goal was to spark serendipity and inspire magical moments of reconnection. And we've heard so many stories of Clay members getting new jobs, reconnecting with old friends, and spending more meaningful time together.
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Zach Hamed
5 years
@JohnExley happy april 1 aka national john exley appreciation day exclusive fund launch dropping today across nyc THREAD ⤵️
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Zach Hamed
2 years
So proud of our team @ClayHQ for being nominated for a Webby — the Internet's highest honor! ⤴️ Help us take home the trophy and vote above! It takes 10 seconds, and every vote counts 🙏🏽
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Zach Hamed
5 years
What doesn't this have? A complex tagging system, funnels, rigid follow up reminders, categories, labels. There's no inbox. Not even an overall number. You don't need them, promise! Just jot thoughts down during or after meetings and we’ll take care of the rest.
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Zach Hamed
6 years
@rus THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT AT SWEETGREEN
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Zach Hamed
5 years
Have wanted this forever — a beautiful and easy-to-understand checklist on security best practices for you, your family, and your coworkers. Well done @brian_lovin 🙌🏽🔐 cc @SwiftOnSecurity
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Zach Hamed
3 years
We're immensely grateful to @ForerunnerVC and @generalcatalyst who believed in the vision from day 1. @omal , @kirstenagreen , @bonatsos , @quentinclark , @badboyboyce — all of whom have wanted a solution to this problem for years and saw the seeds in Clay.
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Zach Hamed
9 months
Inspired by all our friends building in public, @achariam and I are trying something completely unconventional at @ClayHQ by releasing our full investment memo and offering accredited investors an opportunity to participate. 👇🏽
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Zach Hamed
10 years
Redesigned my website—with @Jawbone UP steps & sleep data, @vsco pics, & @Spotify now playing: http://t.co/3b7CZOy2v4 // @rosenthal @aza
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Zach Hamed
4 months
Wow! Grateful to be in such good company with our friends @joshm @ivanhzhao @zoink over at @arcinternet @NotionHQ @figma
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My MacBook Apps
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Zach Hamed
7 years
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Zach Hamed
8 years
Diane Greene, @awagonfeld , and team are quickly building the most exciting enterprise software offering IMO:
@Recode
Recode
8 years
Google drops $625 million on Apigee to chase Amazon and Microsoft in the enterprise
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Zach Hamed
10 years
[New blogpost] Why I Joined Bowery—excited to work with @stevekaliski and @thebyrd . cc @TechatNYU @badboyboyce
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Zach Hamed
6 years
@schlaf @JohnExley imagine seeing this every time he calls you…
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Zach Hamed
2 years
📆 We just sent our beautiful @ClayHQ Year in Review, with gorgeous bespoke visualizations 📊 "You spent 148 days, 10 hours, and 10 minutes building relationships across everyone you know in 2021." 🫂 ...including a total of 32 days (!) with @achariam
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Zach Hamed
10 years
My last @roughdraftvc meeting as student partner—we’ve grown so much in just 1 year, and the best is yet to come. http://t.co/gjmVpBcJLz
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Zach Hamed
5 years
2. In that note card, we automatically pull a bunch of info on that person — their bio, links to their social handles, and things they've expressed an interest about on Twitter or LinkedIn. That way, there's 0 work for you to do when you sign up. No manual tagging or sorting!
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Zach Hamed
11 years
Really, really interesting to see how stats differ across sharks >> Shark Tank Statistics http://t.co/xeXTVh3Ekp // @robertherjavec @mcuban
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Zach Hamed
5 years
After trying specialized apps for this — Contactually, Fullcontact, Cloze, etc. — most have ended up sporadically using Excel or Airtable in some capacity, but spreadsheets are the general purpose do-everything-badly version of this. Nobody is happy with their current system.
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Zach Hamed
8 years
I posted Marcus by Goldman Sachs: Personal loans to manage credit card debt on @ProductHunt
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Zach Hamed
3 years
They are joined by leaders who exemplify thoughtfulness across industries. Eventbrite - @kevinhartz Linkedin - @sstubo Facebook - @avichal + @lessin Tinder / Chapter One - @jmj NFL - @KelvinBeachumJr + @WillJamesAllen Chief/Casper - @lindsaykap Airtable - @zoelle Primer - @delk
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Zach Hamed
9 years
Larry David on #meerkat : "what does that mean? Turn it off" cc @ryandawidjan http://t.co/wl2iThdgku
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Zach Hamed
11 years
Proud to finally announce I’ve been selected as a Thiel Fellowship finalist! Excited to meet the Thiel mentors + community in a few weeks.
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Zach Hamed
7 years
@JohnExley 's new nickname: Weird Al Yankovich
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6 years
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Zach Hamed
2 months
TWITTER'S BACK BABYYY Finally: 🌎 Search your Twitter followers by location (or anything else) 📝 See when people change their Twitter bio 🤖 Ask questions about your tweeps in @ChatGPTapp It's the Twitter CRM power users have always wanted — available today in @ClayHQ
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📣 Discover the Twitter secrets of the top 1% 🔍 We analyzed how Twitter pros leverage their audience and network for massive growth — then built their tools right into @ClayHQ . Now you can access the same powerful workflows, with none of the manual work - details below ⤵️
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Zach Hamed
8 years
Well done, New Yorker cartoonist.
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Zach Hamed
6 years
i stumbled across newt gingrich’s Foursquare tips and boy are they something
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Zach Hamed
16 days
One of my favorite feelings as a founder is seeing a spike of signups for @ClayHQ , not knowing where they're from, and then finding out. Just a PSA to tell your favorite app developers you appreciate them ✨
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Zach Hamed
9 years
New website design, part 1 of some spring cleaning: http://t.co/c5pJpefXji http://t.co/RBKHirtkNL
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Zach Hamed
6 years
probably faster than the trains tbh
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Zach Hamed
11 years
My weekend project, GIFs for Mac, is now live on the Mac App Store. Download it! Already has ~4k downloads in 2 days: http://t.co/Fi1DyW8TAY
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Zach Hamed
5 years
3. We let you write notes about people and remind you after calendar meetings to add anything to clay that you might want to remember about a person later (did they mention their kid’s name? A favorite food? People they're looking to hire?) And then, the best part:
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Zach Hamed
8 years
@badboyboyce i noticed was available—lmk when you want me to transfer it 😜🙌🏽 @perryhewitt @Np_bartlett @alexrkonrad
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Zach Hamed
11 years
" @Harvard said they might kick me out after Facemash. My roommates had a going away party for me—I met my wife there." -Mark Zuckerberg
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Zach Hamed
10 years
Proud to say @boweryio is now powering the @OrchestrateIO @nodejs example app: http://t.co/ImsYWOQSRr
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Zach Hamed
10 years
Never thought I’d see the day when @boweryio is used in an official dev tools landscape doc http://t.co/V5HUjtjOkR http://t.co/2taBcjF8Ox
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Zach Hamed
1 month
me: worried about delightful microinteractions and animation curves microsoft: "to delete a blank page in microsoft word, make the paragraph teeeeeeny tinyyyyyy"
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Zach Hamed
3 years
And we have a brand new marketing site that I genuinely believe is one of the most beautiful software sites I've ever seen. Our team does amazing work. Plus a stunning identity from the insanely talented @saturday :
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Zach Hamed
5 years
@mhdempsey 🙌🏽 dropping a 🔗 here too:
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Zach Hamed
1 year
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Zach Hamed
9 years
Thanks to @connor for coming to our first GS product breakfast, discussing eng & design at Pinterest and Domainr! http://t.co/jOm6k1vjQa
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Zach Hamed
9 years
@JohnExley your caps lock key seems to be broken let me know if you need help turning it off http://t.co/qjaSU3U0Xn
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Zach Hamed
2 years
🚀 Excited to release our biggest update to @ClayHQ 's Home feed ever! 🔗 Share updates externally with others ⚡ It's lightning fast - 9x faster than before 📰 News updates from 100+ global sources updating hourly It's truly the best way to be thoughtful with your people.
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Zach Hamed
8 years
Unreal hand-drawn charcoal dystopian prints by @laurielipton at @AceGallery opening in Los Angeles:
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Zach Hamed
11 years
New Twitter handle, now 50% shorter! I'm now @zmh instead of @zhamed . (Many thanks to @bjp for setting it up.)
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Zach Hamed
5 years
So searching for “technical” shows people you've noted are technical, but also anyone who has CSS, JavaScript, machine learning, etc. in their LinkedIn Searching for places like "Japan" shows notes that mention Tokyo or a Japanese company, even if they don't say Japan explicitly
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Zach Hamed
8 years
is @foursquare bullying me
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Zach Hamed
3 years
And if you're interested in learning more, we're hiring for...everything: * Senior backend engineer * Fullstack engineer * iOS engineer (I think we're the most complex production Swift UI app?) * Growth * Writing and editorial Learn more at or DM me ✨
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