Alex Payne

June 3, 2010 at 10:00am • 32 minutes • Wiki Entry

Dan Benjamin interviews "Alex Payne":http://al3x.net, a noted software developer, speaker, and writer, who has just left a senior engineering role at "Twitter":http://twitter.com, where he was the 8th employee, to join the startup "BankSimple":http://banksimple.net, a customer-focused online bank, as co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer. We talk about Twitter's evolution into an "interest graph", their new advertising model, working remotely, why he wants to create a "bank that doesn't suck," and more.

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