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Kifi Narrative

Mark Yoshitake
February 20, 2015

Kifi Narrative

Kifi connects people to the things they should know, based on who they are. Kifi's mission is to connect people with knowledge and our vision is to create the 'hive mind'. We are motivated by fighting the digital distraction and information overload that exists in the world today and imagine a whole new way for people to connect with each other, where social networks are very high utility, and people connect meaningfully with each other around the things that matter to them most. This is our story...

Mark Yoshitake

February 20, 2015
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  1. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
  2. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 01 Mission: What is our true north? “Connecting people with knowledge” 1. Connecting people to knowledge 2. Connecting people through knowledge KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
  3. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 02 Vision: What world do we imagine? “The Hive Mind” A world where... 1. social connectivity is high utility 2. people help people by being who they are 3. search is high quality, deeply powered by social connections 4. social networks allow people to connect to the things and people that really matter to them A world where people… 5. seamlessly share knowledge with each other. 6. collide meaningfully around their interests. 7. have high value items in their feed that matter to them, reducing noise KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
  4. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 03 Motivation: What drives us? “there has to be a better way to get the information I should know!” 1. Distraction pervades our digital lives 2. Production of information has outpaced our ability to filter and consume it. It’s increasingly harder to find signal in the noise. 3. Social networks should deliver more to meaningfully connect people to the things that matter to them. 4. Search has a massive opportunity to improve significantly, super-charged by people and their interests. 5. Technology has the opportunity to encourage ‘pay-it- forward’-style societal constructs and phenomena at scale KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
  5. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 04 Approach: How are we getting there? Crowdsourcing + Artificial Intelligence We use the best of human curation, and the best of machine learning to create an entirely new product experience. Details on the technologies we use: • Information retrieval • Machine learning • Graph databases • Full text document classification • Real time messaging • Web, Android, iOS KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
  6. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 05 Product: What is Kifi? (a mobile app, website that,) “ Connects you with the things you should know, based on who you are.” Q: What are things should you know? A: Content, people and conversations How it works: kifi.com/how_it_works KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
  7. OUR STORY CONTENTS 01 Mission: Our true north 02 Vision:

    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 06 Team and Technology We’ve assembled a dream team from top tier organizations such as: Google, LinkedIn, Apple, Netflix, Stanford, Wealthfront and more. Our team is connected deeply with our community and is driven to create a delightful, intuitive, and high utility, consumer experience. We use the most advanced technology stacks and are consistently tackling a broad range of technical challenges. We are developing with iOS, Android, Scala, and Angular. We operate in a continuous deployment environment on the server and web front and do quick iterations on our mobile platforms. Team bios: kifi.com/about/team Engineering blog: eng.kifi.com KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com
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    The world we’re creating 03 Motivation: What drives us 04 Approach: How we do it 05 Product: What Kifi is 06 Team and Technology 07 Company: Perks, Location, etc 07 Company HQ in Mountain View (walking distance from Caltrain) San Francisco office (coming soon!) Free lunch and dinner with a kitchen full of tasty snacks. Full healthcare coverage for the entire family. KIFI NARRATIVE v1.0 kifi.com