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Yuanqing Yang

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2017-08-30

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1. “I think it is an interesting challenge. The experience you have offline is like your true engagement with the product, right? Airbnb built really early on this review system, right? An ability to be able to say what kind of experience did you have and what happened? And one of the areas that we're experimenting with now is being able to use the reviews that were given on a place as a predictive signal in the matching model all the way back. So we're able to fit.”

   2017-08-30 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Back and forth. It's not just unidirectional. So, a question I have for you is how do you know what people are actually doing in a physical world isn't the biggest challenge that they essentially lose data when the person acts physically? You don't have any freaking clue what they're doing. So how do you solve that problem technically?”

   2017-08-30 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I am Sonol. Today's episode is about the tech that comes into our lives in unexpected ways, but more specifically we talk about the engineering that's hidden behind and that drives consumer products that people use every day, like Airbnb, which people use to book homes, vacation rentals, and experiences, and Pinterest, which people use to discover ideas or inspiration for things to try, from recipes and home decor to style and more. Joining us to have this conversation, we have Lee Fan, Head of Engineering at Pinterest, and Mike Curtis, VP of Engineering at Airbnb. In this hallway-style conversation, we cover everything from what it takes to manage engineering teams and the myth or the reality of the TenX engineer to recommendation systems, data, and machine learning to the camera as a vector for understanding intent, especially given the challenge of connecting the digital and the physical. So you both uniquely connect to the offline world, online to offline.”

   2017-08-30 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source