Ross Freiman-Mendel

Product @withpersona. The end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time 🤙

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

From a few weeks ago but if you're curious what we're working on here at @withpersona, recommend this listen! https://t.co/6CEahZqJ2e

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

So true for PMs. First and foremost with your teams and xfn partners internally. And for customers and partners externally. Really hard to do well.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This brilliant lesson on communication by @rabois is why the AI leaders are failing. It’s not sufficient just to “speak your truth.” You have to communicate in a way that elucidates your audience. Convincing the public that your company is a menace obviously fails that test.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@shensi @JeanelleAgent Wild to think how destructive a set of actions you can take with @claudeai when approving a waterfall of permission, which give the end-user a false impression they’re acting carefully. Very smart overlay from Merge to establish actual guardrails

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

Very cool launch with @CA_DMV https://t.co/JTtcmoyYJe

@FLHSMV I promise you will have at least one MAU once you add support.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@dee_bosa Re part 2, don’t think it matters when the demand for intelligence is infinity

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@defyneric Would love to attend if there's space. I lead many of our product efforts around Crypto and KYC at Persona.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@shensi This investor memo from @parkerconrad @Rippling is an absolute gem https://t.co/JdKobDxtL3

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@MIDAODS @tednotlasso @withpersona @Visa @Mastercard Actually doing that in practice is totally non trivial. We learned that what you describe strictly follows much clearer specification from the card networks.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@a16z Algorithms and data structures, combinatorics, probability and statistics. Some of the most useful classes I took, and I'm not an engineer. Fortunately @BrownUniversity left lots of room for the humanities too.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@Polymarket The heuristic to do the opposite of elite catastrophic consensus never fails. Where's the mass extinction event we were promised? The one that we could only avoid via some authoritarian global governance regime.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@withpersona is now FedRAMP Moderate. It's a big deal. If you oppose the surveillance state (I do) then do something about it. Identity and privacy don’t have to be a tradeoff. And we can advocate for this approach at the largest scale.

https://t.co/geIF6lhfBk

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@BoringBiz_ It's certainly true that private equity builds and run businesses more efficiently. It's also true that it's fundamentally extractive (e.g. dividend recaps). Don't see why people in finance feel the need to fake a moral lens. Fine to just admit you want to make a lot of money.

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

Update - the model is totally wrong but so are first year analysts

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

Weirdly very satisfying

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

We too at @withpersona share the alarm about the privacy dystopia @matthew_d_green fears, which is why we launched products like Persona Relay. Too many IDV vendors are enabling surveillance when their products should prevent it.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

New post on anonymous credentials and how to build them. All of this is in service on a longer future post on how these will fit into age verification systems. https://t.co/IqwlP9S6mv

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

@bryce Intelligence is overrated

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

For years, I read jeremiads about how innovation was dead, evidenced by tech spending FCF on stock buybacks. Now big tech spends it all on AI capex, with the similar lamentations. Schizophrenic.

[The Paypers @ThePaypers]

🧵 25–35% of crypto users abandon onboarding when asked to upload an ID and selfie. That's a conversion crisis, and it's fixable.

@rosshfm of @withpersona explains how to bring TradFi AML discipline to stablecoins without killing the user experience 👉 https://t.co/gEdDZTcIGO

[Ross Freiman-Mendel @rosshfm]

Public signal, private preferences. This is basically the prisoner's dilemma. This result is not believable.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?