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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
6 Jun 2016 Acquired Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
“I don’t know which was the side gig and which was the permanent gig, but he was one of the first people working on Nest, and nobody knew what Nest was at this point.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 6 Jun 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Well, I should stop doing anything from memory ever. Yes. Quite, quite impressive guys. And interestingly, while they were working on Push Pop Press which was only for about two years, Mike was also working on the side. I don’t know which was the side gig and which was the permanent gig, but he was one of the first people working on Nest, and nobody knew what Nest was at this point. But they were the secretive startup from former Apple folks and Mike was also part of that team. He was. And Mike has had his hands in really great software for a long time. For the Seattleite listeners out there, he’s actually a native Seattleite and worked on some really incredible Mac software that is pixel perfect called Delicious Library from Delicious Monster.…
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