building /neynar 🪐 | neynar.com | /rish 

2. Previous career highlights:

- Launching initial version of MS Teams, growing to 1M MAU, now their numbers are stupidly large comparatively and overtook Slack at some point

- Growing FB Messenger into a multi $B business

- Building Coinbase Earn from couple thousand to millions of MAU, $0 -> $100M ARR business

building /bracket | hosting /greatbooks + /gray | ex-BCG, ex-PHD | poli + phil + econ

Before the days of modern component frameworks, I first got into web dev by extending WordPress themes. Learned a lot writing hooks in PHP, inventing new shortcodes and overriding CSS with unsavory levels of specificity.  Today you'd have to learn this weird amalgamation of PHP/HTML/JSON/CSS/SQL to do this effectively.