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Josh’s List

Two years ago I wrote a blog post called Larry’s List. At that point Pivotus Ventureswas two-months old, with two employees (who had never worked for a bank) sitting in an Umpqua Bank Home Lending office in Los Altos, CA with an iconic boss (Ray Davis) encouraging them to figure out how to pivot the…


How Venmo destroyed a cultural taboo

(This article was originally published to Hackernoon on 9/27/16.)

‘Bei Geld hört jede Freundschaft auf’ or ‘Money is where every friendship stops’ — This is a famous saying Germans will hear or say frequently in their lives…


Larry’s List or How I learned what kind of organisation I want to work for

(This article was originally published to LinkedIn on 12/4/15)

It is an interesting time to be recruiting talent in Silicon Valley. Opportunities are abundant, salaries are off…


Finding The &#@$! Using Deep Learning To Detect Offensive Messages

Our own Alizishaan Khatri, Machine Learning Engineer here at Pivotus, presented at PyCon SG last month, sharing his successful approach to identifying racist, sexist, and violent content using a trained deep…