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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. Having worked at Google and Code Academy and having founded a startup on my own that has taught web development to over 20,000 entrepreneurs. They previously interned with us as well.

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Tactics in Increasing Signal to Noise Ratio

Sachin Rekhi

The simplest example of this is how Google Mobile can automatically leverage your current location to serve up search results filtered to your current city. Milo , for example, leverages not only the user's location, but location and availability information of product to tell you where you can locally purchase a product right now.