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Maksim Golivkin
Maksim Golivkin

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Jul 19, 2022

Nova Ukraine & responding to war

In March, I finished an 8-year journey on the Instacart rocketship. Good memories, lessons learned, and wins are worth more than one separate post that I hope soon will follow. Having time on my hands coincided with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the best way to cope with the daily…

Ukraine

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Nova Ukraine & responding to war
Nova Ukraine & responding to war
Ukraine

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May 10, 2022

Biography of Cancer — summary of a book

“Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” is a Pulitzer-winning non-fiction book by Siddhartha Mukherjee describing the evolution of the medical understanding of Cancer and various approaches to treating it. I’ve fallen in love with Mukherjee writing after reading his other book: Gene: An Intimate History. Besides being a…

Cancer

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Biography of Cancer — summary of a book
Biography of Cancer — summary of a book
Cancer

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Jan 27, 2020

First Angel Investor Exit: Sheltr

It is an unconventional story even for the Bay Area. Sheltr was founded in November 2018, with a seed round in May and the acquisition by Hippo Insurance closing by end of October. In just a year the company went from 0 to serving thousands of people, non-trivial revenue and…

Angel Investors

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First Angel Investor Exit: Sheltr
First Angel Investor Exit: Sheltr
Angel Investors

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May 19, 2019

The city built on shipwrecks and ambition

I love the story that in 1850s gold prospectors abandoned so many ships in the harbor in San Francisco that the city had no better use of ships than to sink them for landfill. The heist for gold was so high that as soon as gold miners arrived at the…

San Francisco

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The city born during Gold Rush
The city born during Gold Rush
San Francisco

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May 12, 2019

Uber IPO

Congrats to everyone, who made the Uber the phenomena it became! IPO is a strange milestone, but it will make the company stronger, as it gets more transparency and better access to credit. Also, congrats to many, who got more financially independent after taking a chance on a startup years ago! I haven’t been around for too long but wanted to thank Paul Holden, Ryan McKillen and Jordan Bonnet, who’ve taken a chance on an immigrant with a passion for Android as a platform. I am proud of adding some folks back in Vilnius, Lithuania to Uber Engineering team. Kudos to Oliver Nicholas and Curtis Chambers, who took the chance on hiring talent in Eastern Europe.

Lithuania

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Uber IPO
Uber IPO
Lithuania

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Mar 19, 2019

Manager Readme or first meeting script

The last autumn my team grew from 5 to 11 engineers. In order to onboard new engineers effectively, I wrote down my values, expectations, and process, so that I could use it as a first meeting script. Given it worked quite well, I decided to share it wider. The script…

Engineering Mangement

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Manager Readme or first meeting script
Manager Readme or first meeting script
Engineering Mangement

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Feb 27, 2018

Game of Taxi — thoughts on Uber

In late 2017 in San Francisco, it felt like Uber had already lost against Lyft. My pool rides were lonely, cars started to smell bad and ETAs were getting longer. During Christmas holidays I spent some time thinking about the next few years for Uber. …

Uber

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Game of Taxi — thoughts on Uber
Game of Taxi — thoughts on Uber
Uber

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tech-at-instacart

·Jan 9, 2018

A month of Android Accessibility

At Instacart, Solve for the Customer is our first and most important value. Recently we took a month to improve the accessibility of our Android app and serve a wider range of customers. Navigation & Focus Shopping for groceries involves doing quite a few searches, browsing stores and “virtual aisles” as well as…

Accessibility

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A month of Android Accessibility
A month of Android Accessibility
Accessibility

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·Nov 13, 2017

Leveraging Pay with Google

Selecting a good default saves user time and mental effort. In e-commerce, payment information, billing and shipping address are mandatory and filling them up during checkout or sign-up is annoying for the consumer and results in conversion drop-offs. Naturally, whenever there is an opportunity to improve this experience, Instacart is…

Payments

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Leveraging Pay with Google
Leveraging Pay with Google
Payments

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Oct 22, 2016

Hong Kong was a gonzo dream

Hong Kong is nothing you had expected. They drive on the left, commute in two level busses, use British plugs. You were flying to Asia, but landed in London. Hong Kong knows how to party. Go out for one drink, come back at 5 am. In Hong Kong parties are…

Hong Kong

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Hong Kong was a gonzo dream
Hong Kong was a gonzo dream
Hong Kong

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Maksim Golivkin

Maksim Golivkin

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Engineering Manager on sabbatical. ex-Instacart, ex- Uber, ex- Kiva Systems

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