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A Conversation with Caterina Fake

Interviewat Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 · 2009-11-16..11-19· [career-development]
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Starts from a failed game with three months of cash and builds Flickr with a six-person team that produces about 90% of features and grows into a Yahoo acquisition at ~10–11 people; creates Brickhouse from a 24-hour Hack Yahoo practice to ship experiments inside a 10,000-person company. Launches Hunch as a decision engine seeded with 500→6,000 questions, shows average users answer ~140 questions, ~500 finish all, and achieves ~90% satisfaction with 20–30 answers.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:33Building Flickr
  3. 5:48Innovation in big companies
  4. 9:40The New York startup scene
  5. 14:44The future of data
  6. 18:24Hunch and decision making
  7. 23:48Next phase of social web
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