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tikhon

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October 10, 2006 (19y ago)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikhon_Bernstam

Startups:

1. Founder and former CEO of Parse (S'11) (acquired by Facebook in 2013).

2. Founder of Scribd (S'06).

Investor:

I'm an angel in over 50 startups including: Cruise Automation, Gusto, Tilt, LendUp, WayUp, TripleByte, Checkr, RazorPay, True Accord, Swiftype, Realm, Front, Reddit (Series B), Bright, Wave, Matterport, Namo Media (acquired by Twitter for $50M), and Optimizely. https://angel.co/tikhon

References: http://tikhon.com/references

Developer/DevOps/Sysadmin:

I'm a developer. I've worked on open-source projects, side projects, etc, but most of my time I spent working exclusively on Scribd and Parse. I ran DevOps at Scribd and at Parse (until I found amazing folks to take over those roles). I was on "pager duty" for many years at Scribd, and then again for the first year of Parse. I've done everythin...

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    144 points 45
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    31 points 1
  11. Scribd quietly growing like crazy (and profitable) (tikhon.weebly.com)
    59 points 32
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    19 points 2
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    1 points 0 job
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    24 points 0
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    49 points 2
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    30 points 1
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    24 points 18
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