Alex Liu

software engineer @rippling prev: @fieldguide, trader @barclays, @amherstcollege

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

you'll want fries with that shake

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

We launched Rippling Data Cloud today - an all-in-one rebuild of the modern data stack, with AI deeply integrated throughout.

Why would you want an org-and-employee-centric data stack? Well, here’s how I used Rippling Data Cloud to help with token burn and cut AI slop. 1/

https://t.co/2rhp8x3KVn

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

The hardest part isn't the AI... it's deep, un-throttled, permission-ed plumbing into all of rippling's data and product capabilties

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees.

Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job, and why I believe this is the future of G&A software. 🧵 1/n

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees.

Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job, and why I believe this is the future of G&A software. 🧵 1/n

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

@servingcapreal Free buses❌ free babies✅

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

There’s nothing scarier than a female Pilates instructor saying in the nicest way possible “oh when I said down I didn’t mean all the way down!”

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

Tried to generate a graphic of $XYZ / block layoffs and Gemini 3 / nano banana would fail the excel chart test how is 6k and 3835 on the same axis lmao

[anu @anuatluru]

hot targets for trophy jobs?
tech’s prestige job triangle:

[Contrary Research @Contrary_Res]

Here's the link to our latest deep dive, written by @kwharrison13 and @aaalexliu from Contrary, and the founders of @Nomic_ai, Brandon Duderstadt and @Andriy_Mulyar.

https://t.co/FQ78NabgEe

[Alex Kantrowitz @Kantrowitz]

A @Techmeme headline for the history books

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

Great insights from @SignalFire on laid off FAANG engineer hiring patterns – possibly confirms anecdotal evidence that compensation expectations are too high among those laid off
https://t.co/fq2dTSq6vA

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

What a way to dogfood your own product

[Victor Riparbelli @vriparbelli]

Excited to announce our $90m Series C at $1bn valuation led by Accel w/ participation from Nvidia.

In 2017, when we founded Synthesia, generative AI sounded like sci-fi to most.

It maybe also did for us; but we kept building. And here we are in numbers, 6 years later...

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

"In reality, Mostaque has a bachelor’s degree, not a master’s degree from Oxford. The hedge fund’s banner year was followed by one so poor that it shut down months later. The U.N. hasn’t worked with him for years..."
https://t.co/m8SXrM1cf8

[swyx 🔜 @aiDotEngineer @swyx]

People dismiss FB too easily and lazily because of “move fast and break things”, a onetime campaign initiated when the company faced existential threats.

Here are the real elements of early FB culture, per Zuck:

(via https://t.co/SjYNYhnm5z)

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Your periodic reminder that the greatest gift you can give a team member who is early to mid-career is telling them what you see as their superpower, with sincere optimism about what this superpower might enable for them in the future.

[Cedric Chin @ejames_c]

This is a great example of reality having a lot of surprising detail.

Tired: “AI is coming after your jobs”
Wired: “Actually the socio-technical systems of work that these AI systems are supposed to replace are surprisingly rich in ways we didn’t expect”

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

Mr. Schwartz... said ChatGPT had provided reassurances.

“Is varghese a real case,” he typed, according to a copy of the exchange that he submitted to the judge.

“Yes,” the chatbot replied, offering a citation and adding that it “is a real case.”

https://t.co/HVPk6TkdPc

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

The day there are no public debates like this on twitter is the day twitter truly in decline

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

I got in a little internet tiff w @nikitabier last night, about our differing approaches to product management for Gas and Twitch respectively. He reached out this morning and we had a little chat, and I thought it might be fun to share it

[Alex Liu @aaalexliu]

Most of the time, the only advantage startups have is speed.

Speed, however, can be an incredible advantage

[aaron holmes @aaronpholmes]

Exclusive: In a December meeting w/ top execs, Satya Nadella laid into his head of research.

"OpenAI built this with with 250 people," he said. "Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?"

My deep dive on how $MSFT swallowed its pride to back OpenAI: https://t.co/p0nudTxdKj

[Helen Min @helen_min]

At Facebook in ‘09, this was a young social media manager at Walmart who advocated for us internally and won. We did everything we could to help make her name and story known in the industry at the time. She has since served on a dozen public company boards and held CMO roles at several F500 companies.

I have similar stories from Dropbox and Plaid. These champions and their stories become the best, most authentic content for B2B marketing campaigns.