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The Anatomy of MetaMask

Since launching in 2016, MetaMask has acquired 30M monthly active users as of March 2022. It has a global user base with elevated participation from the US, Philippines, Brazil, Germany, and Nigeria. MetaMask is one of the indispensible apps of the Ethereum community, a household name that has initiated and…

Cryptocurrency

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The Anatomy of MetaMask
The Anatomy of MetaMask
Cryptocurrency

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Published in HackerNoon.com

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The Chinese Social Network

An origin story of Tencent and Chinese internet companies — Tencent is among the largest technology companies in the world. According to The Verge, it is the most valuable company of any sort in Asia. Tencent owns WeChat, the “everything app” with almost 1 billion users — many of which are active for more than 4 hours a day. …

China

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The Chinese Social Network
The Chinese Social Network
China

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Published in Brex Tech Blog

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Building the Brex Accounting API

Delighting customers through banking data feeds — Brex’s diverse customers use a variety of software tools to run and grow their businesses. About half of all our customers use some form of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) application and expect Brex data to seamlessly integrate with their existing productivity tools. In late 2019, we identified two sizable opportunities: …

Fintech

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Building the Brex Accounting API
Building the Brex Accounting API
Fintech

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6 days ago

The Fall of a Climate Bank

Reflecting on SVB’s Impact on Climate Tech — As someone who used to work at Brex in San Francisco, a Silicon Valley Bank competitor, we looked at SVB with a competitive spirit and admiration. I once crashed an SVB event for founders at a taco restaurant in the Mission — they were undeniably a historical force in the…

Silicon Valley

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The Fall of a Climate Bank
The Fall of a Climate Bank
Silicon Valley

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Mar 3

Tax Credits: Financing the Renewable Energy Transition

The topic of (clean) energy has been receiving unprecedented attention lately. There are a few factors that make it all the more relevant today: The war: The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a supply shock and spike in energy prices, especially in the EU The Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act…

Inflation Reduction Act

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Tax Credits: Financing the Renewable Energy Transition
Tax Credits: Financing the Renewable Energy Transition
Inflation Reduction Act

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Feb 22

Avoiding A Cleantech Bubble

From an underrated chapter in Zero to One Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters is likely the most commonly read book in the startup ecosystem and often the first title in the Silicon Valley Syllabus™. I’ve read the book a handful of times, but a chapter that…

Clean Energy

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Avoiding A Cleantech Bubble
Avoiding A Cleantech Bubble
Clean Energy

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Jan 2

Reading Notes: The Grid

About the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future — One of the most recommended books by people I met in the renewable energy ecosystem, The Grid by Gretchen Bakke is a riveting dive into a fundamental piece of infrastructure that moves American society — the electrical grid. Bakke goes into the past, present and future of the grid and…

Electricity

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Reading Notes: The Grid
Reading Notes: The Grid
Electricity

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Dec 30, 2022

Django Cheatsheet

Field notes from learning Django — I’ve always wanted to experiment with Django after trying out Flask a few years ago. After some initial experimentation to build a search tool for solar farms (django backend, react frontend), I think Django is an optimal choice for building an API quickly from data models. …

Django

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Django Cheatsheet
Django Cheatsheet
Django

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Aug 24, 2022

Go Join the Startup

Why work at a startup + some takeaways from Brex — A lot of my friends seem to be thinking about career moves lately or are considering new opportunities. I hope that sharing a bit of my rationale and learnings during almost 3 years at a breakout startup can be helpful to those considering similar paths. How it happened for me Before Brex, I started my…

Startup

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Go Join the Startup
Go Join the Startup
Startup

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Jul 23, 2022

Multi-Party Computation (MPC) 101

It’s the hot new acronym on the street being popularized by giants like Coinbase and Fireblocks. A tool that could be used for building large-scale, privacy-preserving applications. Simply put, MPC allows a group to compute something without revealing each participant’s private inputs. MPC also enables “semi-custodial” wallets that serve as…

Cryptography

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Multi-Party Computation (MPC) 101
Multi-Party Computation (MPC) 101
Cryptography

7 min read

Julia Wu

Julia Wu

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Building something new. Prev. eng at Brex, Apple, MSFT. More at juliawu.me

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