Work at a Startup Expo 2019

Technology Instawork is investing in to build more scalable infrastructure.

Jeff Ralston's second career step involved being a 'presence provider' for the World Wide Web, helping companies get online and connect with customers directly, a radical change from HP.

A core company value at Instawork where every employee must work a gig to understand users, exemplified by the speaker wearing black bistro attire.

Patch Medical uses deep learning models alongside wearable monitoring to predict sepsis, leveraging recent changes in healthcare regulations for AI integration.

A metric that Rippling is proud of, indicating high customer satisfaction in the high 60s.

Discussed as a complex application of computer vision that is still 10-20 years away, contrasting with autonomous checkout which Standard Cognition is deploying now.

Type of AI that Scale AI focuses on, noting its incredible results but also its high demand for large amounts of data, which Scale aims to provide.

Technology used by Aethelas to segment and classify cell types for complete blood counts, demonstrating advanced application of AI in healthcare.

Aethelas received historic FDA clearance for the first single-drop test for neutropenia in history, and the first-ever deep-learning based test cleared by the FDA.

Jeff Ralston worked on TCP/IP at HP, noting a project to create a different version which was ultimately canceled, highlighting the limited impact in large companies.

Scale AI has built an end-to-end API-driven platform for ground truth data, providing tools and dashboards for data labeling and integration with customer systems.

Aethelas's test for neutropenia is the first deep-learning based test cleared by the FDA, highlighting its innovative application in blood diagnostics.

Standard Cognition explicitly states they identify people in stores without using facial recognition for privacy, highlighting the complexity and ethical considerations of their visual tracking solution.

The US Food and Drug Administration, which provided a 'historic clearance' for Aethelas's single-drop neutropenia test, marking a breakthrough for immunocompromised patients.

An investor in Callisto, supporting its mission to advance justice related to sexual misconduct.

A foundation that backs Callisto, supporting its work in human rights.

A venture capital firm that participated in Instawork's Series A funding round.

Luan and Tariq, co-founders of Kalshi, studied computer science and math here, highlighting their academic background relevant to building a trading exchange.

Tina, an engineer at Sorceress, received a scholarship to conduct her machine learning research here.

Institution where Vijay, founder of Eric's Health, received medical training; used to establish his credentials.

A prominent venture capital firm backing Aethelas, noted for its support of their technology that saves lives.

The philanthropic arm of Google, an investor in Callisto, aligning with its mission to solve important human rights problems.

Magazine that named student loan repayment as the 'hottest employee benefit', validating Goodly's business model.

A customer of Valqari, utilizing their autonomous aerial delivery services for surveillance and critical supply deliveries.

Where Paul, co-founder of Keeper, studied, demonstrating his academic background in product management.

A company whose vision is to accelerate the development of AI applications by providing an end-to-end API-driven platform for ground truth data, addressing the bottleneck of data labeling in supervised deep learning.

Cloud content management company, whose lead investor is also an investor in Sorceress, indicating strong financial backing.

The United States Postal Service, mentioned as simplifying address verification in the U.S., a problem Lob.com solves for many other countries without similar authorities.

A billion-dollar video game mentioned as an example of successful games originally created by individual modelers, now a target for Dreamcraft's platform.

A billion-dollar video game mentioned as an example of successful games originally created by individual modelers, now a target for Dreamcraft's platform.

A billion-dollar video game mentioned as an example of successful games originally created by individual modelers, now a target for Dreamcraft's platform.

TV show from which LogDNA's 'Hot Pie' value character is derived, symbolizing honesty, openness, trust, passion, ideas, and execution.

A billion-dollar video game mentioned as an example of successful games originally created by individual modelers, now a target for Dreamcraft's platform.

A billion-dollar video game mentioned as an example of successful games originally created by individual modelers, now a target for Dreamcraft's platform.

Movie franchise referenced by Jeff Ralston to illustrate how much technology has changed over 30 years compared to the past, emphasizing the accelerating pace of change.

A programming model used by HealthSherpa for scalable backend data products, indicating their handling of large datasets.

A query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries, used on the front-end for Human Interest's tech stack.

Referenced as a successful company that achieved a multi-billion dollar valuation, serving as an example of a potential outcome for successful startup employees.

Text editor where Jeff Ralston built his customer support system for a failed startup, noting it was a better product than the actual service offered.

Backend framework used by Modern Health, indicating a robust and scalable architecture.

A Java framework used in Rescale's services for cluster orchestration, enabling rapid development of high-performance RESTful web services.

A NoSQL database used by Thunkable.

Backend framework used by GiveCampus, described as 'pretty basic' but functional.

A search engine used by HealthSherpa to support backend data products, useful for data analysis and retrieval.

Platform where users select a spreadsheet to create an app using Glide.

An open source, in-memory data structure store used by Rescale.

Database used by GiveCampus, part of their basic tech stack.

A distributed streaming platform LogDNA adapted; they built a new version called Buzzsaw due to rapidly growing data volumes, which they plan to open source.

A platform that named Modern Health the 'number one startup of 2019', providing external validation of their growth and impact.

A cloud app that Slapdash integrates with, allowing users to manage tasks across different platforms.

A background check company aiming to bring fairness and transparency to the job application process, processing millions of checks monthly.

The initial programming language used for Lob.com's code, which is now being transitioned to Go and Elixir due to scaling challenges.

The product RocketMail evolved into after its acquisition in the late 90s, cited as a cool success story.

Programming language used for Faire's iOS app.

A tool that Segment integrates with for data analysis, demonstrating the breadth of their platform's capabilities.

Framework used for Thunkable's mobile app development.

An open-source machine learning framework used by Zypr for computer vision and predictive analytics.

New programming language Lob.com is migrating to for improved scalability.

New programming language Lob.com is migrating to for improved scalability.

A systems programming language used in LogDNA's tech stack, known for performance and safety.

A high-level Python web framework used in Rescale's web tier.

Amazon Web Services, where RevenueCat's entire stack is deployed, indicating a focus on scalable cloud infrastructure.

An analytics platform that Segment integrates with for data analysis, demonstrating the breadth of their product.

A programming language that PullRequest is able to review code in, demonstrating their multi-language capability.

Used in ReadMe's tech stack, indicating modern React development practices.

Framework used on the front-end for Dynasty Technologies' deep learning stack, enabling advanced computer vision models on mobile devices.

Programming language used in Rescale's services for cluster orchestration frameworks.

A startup Jeff Ralston worked on with a strong engineering team, which was later acquired and became Yahoo Mail.

Frontend library used by GiveCampus, noted alongside Vanilla JavaScript.

The backend system that powers HealthSherpa, giving them direct API access, which is a unique market position in the consumer health insurance space.

Apple's digital distribution platform for mobile apps, which RevenueCat helps developers monetize their subscriptions on.

A progressive JavaScript framework used in LogDNA's tech stack, indicating modern frontend development.

A company that makes in-app subscriptions easy for developers on App Store and Google Play, providing an SDK and backend for monetization and business scaling.

Google's serverless, highly scalable, multi-cloud data warehouse that Segment integrates with, for data analysis.

A mobile payment service, where Faire's co-founders, Danielle and Marcelo, were the first engineers and built it from the ground up, applying those learnings to Faire.

LogDNA's technology is used by IBM Watson, showing an advanced application of their product.

A continuous integration/continuous delivery platform used by Newfront Insurance for their development pipeline.

Frontend technology used by GiveCampus, noted alongside React.

Programming language forming the core of Glide's tech stack, enabling robust frontend and backend development.

An open-source container orchestration system used in LogDNA's tech stack for managing containerized workloads and services.

A Node.js web application framework used on the backend for Thunkable.

Zypr's core mission is to help brands bypass Facebook ads to build community more effectively, implying a critique of traditional digital advertising methods.

Modern programming language used in Faire's tech stack for both Android development and potentially backend services.

Cloud platform used by GiveCampus for deployment, part of their basic tech stack.

An in-house framework built by Instawork to accelerate mobile app development.

LogDNA powers IBM Cloud's global infrastructure for logging, demonstrating significant enterprise partnership.

A marketing automation software that Segment integrates with, for data analysis through their platform.

A mobile app connecting gig workers with hospitality businesses, solving employment problems for blue-collar workers and small businesses by effectively acting as an API for labor.

Mentioned as a platform that blue-collar and hospitality workers often rely on for job searching, contrasting with Instawork's modern solution.

An investor in Scale AI, contributing to over $20 million raised.

A feature of React used on the frontend by Newfront Insurance.

A fast and flexible NoSQL database service from Amazon, cited as one of the world's largest APIs, comparable to Segment's API message volume.

Frontend stack used by Simply Insured, combining React for UI and Redux for state management.

A programming language that PullRequest is able to review code in, demonstrating their multi-language capability.

A cloud app that Slapdash integrates with, allowing users to manage documents across different platforms.

Video conferencing software that Emergence Capital invested in, highlighting their track record with strong companies.

An open-source machine learning framework used in Sorceress's tech stack.

Cloud platform where Thunkable deploys its services using Kubernetes.

Google's digital distribution platform for Android apps, which RevenueCat helps developers monetize their subscriptions on.

A cloud app that Slapdash integrates with, allowing users to manage tasks across different platforms.

An online financial advisor, used as an analogy to describe the ease of investing with Human Interest's 401(k) plans.

Mentioned as a platform that blue-collar and hospitality workers don't typically use for job searching, highlighting the market gap Instawork addresses.

Past employer of some GiveCampus engineers, indicating a high caliber of talent.

A venture capital firm that invested in Modern Health, contributing to over $11 million raised.

Mentioned as an example of a large company where one might work, enjoying good salary and benefits but potentially less impact and innovation compared to a startup.

A company that uses computer vision and microfluidics for instant point-of-care blood monitoring, and has developed the first single-drop test for neutropenia cleared by the FDA.

A company that built sexual misconduct reporting software to protect victims and connect those with the same perpetrator, using advanced cryptography and trauma-informed design.

Mentioned as a large retailer that Faire helps small businesses compete against, focusing on supporting local communities.

A leading venture capital firm that invested in Faire, contributing to over $100 million raised by the company.

CEO mentioned as an advisor and investor for Glide, indicating strong industry backing.

A leading investor in Goodly, with one of their managing partners, Jeff Crowe, known for his success on the Forbes Midas List.

A high-scale customer of LogDNA, powering its scooters on the road.

A marketplace for live online classes for kids, connecting parents, teachers, and learners through small group video chat classes, emphasizing social and engaging learning.

An investor in Eric's Health, mentioned as part of an oversubscribed funding round.

A wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with products, aiming to help small businesses compete with large corporations and thrive locally.

One of the three major providers (along with GitLab and GitHub) that PullRequest integrates with for seamless code review.

Where Jeff Ralston began his career in the early 80s, working on operating systems and TCP/IP, describing it as a 'fur-lined rut' due to minimal impact and innovation.

A platform designed to help individual video game developers create and sell their games, aiming to provide a simulation, an editor, and a distribution platform.

A platform that helps schools raise money online, simplifying the fundraising process and making it transparent and social.

A company where Paul, co-founder of Keeper, worked in product management, indicating his experience in relevant tech.

A social media company mentioned in Ryan's career trajectory after Lyft where he did partner engineering and developer advocacy.

A full-stack startup in the commercial insurance industry, building a technology platform to provide an amazing client experience and supporting their own operations.

Messaging app whose infrastructure was rebuilt by Slapdash's CTO, Dima, to handle immense request volumes.

Mentioned as a large retailer that Faire helps small businesses compete against, focusing on supporting local communities.

A venture capital firm that invested in Faire, contributing to over $100 million raised by the company.

Platform used in Glide's tech stack, indicating scalable backend services.

A company in the DevOps space that provides an engineering product to help teams debug and monitor production issues by aggregating server and application logs.

A cloud-based software company where Ryan, the event host, was the seventh engineer, describing seminal projects he worked on there, such as building the API and marketing suite.

An investor in Eric's Health, mentioned as part of an oversubscribed funding round.

The Uber app is where Dynasty Technologies' founders initially built a credit card scanner, demonstrating their expertise before starting their company.

One of the three major providers (along with GitHub and Bitbucket) that PullRequest integrates with for seamless code review, noted as their preferred platform.

Another YC company and customer of Rescale, using their platform to design supersonic travel, highlighting the interesting projects Rescale supports.

A company focusing on autonomous checkout in real stores using computer vision, aiming to revolutionize retail by eliminating checkout lines.

A startup where Ryan ran an engineering team before it went public.

A company helping everyone save for retirement by providing 401(k) plans perfect for startups and small businesses, automating paperwork and compliance.

A high-scale customer of LogDNA for logging infrastructure.

A company building the modern business phone, providing a business phone number in an app, with 4,000 paying customers within a year of launch.

A company providing remote monitoring for patients with chronic lung disease, developed a software solution to help doctors treat issues early and keep patients out of the hospital.

An e-commerce company, mentioned as a previous employer of one of LogDNA's leaders.

A company that provides 'code review as a service' by combining a network of on-demand reviewers with automation to improve code quality. They are building an AI that categorizes bugs and solutions.

One of the three major providers (along with GitLab and Bitbucket) that PullRequest integrates with for seamless code review.

A medical customer of Valqari, utilizing their services for deliveries of vaccinations, blood, and other medical supplies.

A brand that uses Zypr's platform to connect with fans and build community.

A startup accelerator that funds and mentors early-stage companies, playing a central role in the Work at a Startup Expo.

A ride-sharing company where Ryan worked as a Product Manager for platform, identity, and IPO, and later in partner engineering and developer advocacy.

A technology company that backs Aethelas, indicating their involvement with advanced computing, likely related to AI and computer vision.

A venture capital firm that invested in Faire, contributing to over $100 million raised by the company.

Former employer of Nick, co-founder of Outschool, where he was the first engineer hire, indicating his experience in scaling startups.

An analytics platform that helps companies collect customer data, integrate it with 250 tools, and manage data infrastructure, handling massive message volumes.

A company helping call centers understand customer conversations by transcribing calls and structuring data to pinpoint problems and improve performance, growing rapidly and backed by significant funding.

A brand that uses Zypr's platform to connect with fans and build community.

An investor in Eric's Health, mentioned as part of an oversubscribed funding round.

The previous employer of LogDNA's VP of Engineering, who was an early employee (#200) and stayed until the company reached 7,000 employees.

A company with the mission to help Americans access healthcare through affordable health insurance on ACA marketplaces, enrolling millions and saving them billions annually.

The precursor to Twitch, where Paul, co-founder of Human Interest, interned, indicating his long history in the startup scene.

A company where Paul, co-founder of Keeper, worked in product management, indicating his experience in relevant tech.

A company that provides an Address Verification API and a Print & Mail API to help businesses automate interactions with the offline world, handling massive scale.

A company helping brands bypass Facebook ads to build community, utilizing computer vision, location data, and complex queries to drive engagement and sales.

A brand that uses Zypr's platform to connect with fans and build community.

An investor in LogDNA, noted for their successful investment in Zoom conferencing.

A company that provides an elastic, on-demand supercomputer for heavy-duty scientific computing workloads, allowing companies to rent instead of buy infrastructure.

An exciting customer of Rescale, using their supercomputing platform for crash test analysis for new cars.

An experimentation platform that Segment integrates with for data analysis, demonstrating the breadth of their product.

A company building an 'operating system for cloud work apps', aiming to integrate and provide a unified interface for various cloud applications like Google Docs, GitHub, Asana, and Trello.

A company building authentication for mobile devices, starting with a credit card scanning SDK, leveraging advanced computer vision models to run entirely on-device for fraud detection.

A high-scale customer of LogDNA for logging infrastructure.

A medical technology company triaging and preventing readmissions due to sepsis using wearables and deep learning, with a validated algorithm on patient records.

Mentioned as a company with excellent API documentation, which ReadMe aims to emulate for its clients.

An autonomous driving technology company mentioned as a customer of Scale AI.

Employer of Sorceress's co-founder, who was Dropbox's first chief of staff.

A company offering student loan repayment as an employee benefit, growing rapidly and projected to be offered by many companies in the coming years.

Live streaming platform Human Interest's co-founder, Paul, interned at Justin.tv before it became this company, demonstrating his early exposure to the startup world.

A global betting site where people can bet on anything, aiming to be the only legal prediction market in the U.S. and allowing users to capitalize on their opinions.

Mentioned as part of LogDNA's tech stack, likely referring to Elasticsearch for logging data.

A prominent AI research company mentioned as a customer of Scale AI, highlighting their significant clients in the AI space.

A commercial customer of Valqari, using their services for shipments of spare parts to reduce downtime costs.

The first mental health platform for companies, recognized as Crunchbase's #1 startup of 2019, providing proactive solutions for managing stress, depression, and anxiety.

A monitoring and analytics platform used by Newfront Insurance for telemetry.

One of the largest small business-focused companies in the world, distributing Simply Insured's platform.

A platform that empowers anyone to create beautiful and powerful mobile apps using a drag-and-drop environment and a visual programming language, aiming to turn passive consumers into creators.

A venture capital firm that led Outschool's Series A funding, providing capital to grow their team.

An autonomous vehicle company mentioned as a customer of Scale AI.

A company building an AI product that replaces human recruiters, aiming to equalize access to opportunity and reduce bias in the hiring process.

An investor in Scale AI, contributing to over $20 million raised.

A company that makes HR and IT software for small businesses, aiming to simplify employee data management across numerous disconnected business systems.

A 100% online platform for small businesses to buy and manage health insurance, providing instant quotes and online applications, aiming to eliminate fear from health insurance.

A fintech lending company that solves problems in the financial system by building APIs into lenders' systems to price loans correctly and connect them with guaranteed buyers, making the system safer.

A company that helps other companies build excellent developer experiences for APIs, providing beautiful and interactive documentation.

A company that builds and operates autonomous aerial delivery solutions (long-range, high-payload unmanned aerial vehicles) for time-sensitive item deliveries in defense, commercial, and medical sectors.

The new president of Y Combinator, who delivered a talk on the benefits of working at startups.

Co-founder of Stripe, whose 'Collison test' is invoked by YC to advise founders on hiring: asking if they'd be happy to find a person working alone on a Sunday.

Engineer Jeff Ralston worked with on RocketMail, which later became Yahoo Mail.

Actor mentioned in relation to the 'Back to the Future' movie franchise.

The president of Y Combinator, mentioned for his advice on joining startups and the importance of being close to users.

Engineer Jeff Ralston worked with on RocketMail, which later became Yahoo Mail.

A managing partner at Norwest, a leading investor in Goodly, recognized for his successful investments and consistent presence on the Forbes Midas List.

A prominent venture capitalist at Benchmark who invested in Instawork's Series A round.

Co-founder and CEO of Rippling, who introduced the company's mission and growth.

Co-founder of Salesforce, with whom Ryan worked directly early in his career.

Co-founder of Salesforce, with whom Ryan worked directly.

VP of Engineering at Thunkable, who described the company's mission and technical stack.

Engineer Jeff Ralston worked with on RocketMail, which later became Yahoo Mail.

Engineer Jeff Ralston worked with on RocketMail, which later became Yahoo Mail.

An investor in LogDNA, showing significant backing.

Actor and investor, mentioned as an investor in Modern Health, adding an unusual celebrity endorsement.

An early Y Combinator investor (OG YC) and investor in LogDNA, reflecting strong backing.

Co-founder of LogDNA, shared the company's journey from near failure to success and emphasized their core values.

Co-founder of OpenAI, mentioned as an investor in Scale AI.

A company that enables users to create mobile apps directly from spreadsheets, catering to non-technical users and addressing the 'dark apps' market within enterprises.

Amazon's autonomous checkout stores, mentioned as having deployed about ten stores in six months, indicating the rapid growth and viability of this technology.

Patch Medical is working to build out its system for FDA approval to ensure its sepsis prediction technology meets regulatory standards.

A US government program providing a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products. HealthSherpa's API integration passed a FedRAMP level audit, allowing them to be a government contractor.

A location where Valqari recently launched operations, demonstrating its global reach in aerial delivery.

A region where Valqari has conducted projects, demonstrating its global reach in aerial delivery.

A location where Valqari has conducted projects, demonstrating its global reach in aerial delivery.

A location where Valqari has conducted projects, demonstrating its global reach in aerial delivery.

A region where Valqari has conducted projects, demonstrating its global reach in aerial delivery.

A credit scoring model mentioned by Theorum as an incomplete data point for loan pricing; they ask lenders for 'everything' to ensure accurate pricing and safer financial transactions.