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mattzito

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About mattzito

My name is Matt Zito. I am one of the founders of GridApp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridApp_Systems), which was acquired by BMC (http://www.bmc.com/), where I worked for a while afterwards, doing product strategy for their cloud group. I used to be Chief Strategy Officer for Synthesio, a social media analytics platform, and Director of Product for Squarespace, the website builder

Currently, I lead the product team for AppSheet at Google. Anything I say is my personal perspective only.

I live in NYC. me@mzi.to - @matthewzito

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46567579

    No, if you are going to change the structure of a structured document that has been saved to disk, your options are: 1) Rewrite the file to disk 2) Append the new data/metadata to …

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    Comment #45905375

    I think you have to go market by market to make that statement. In NYC, for example, it was explicitly illegal for yellow cabs to accept radio/pickup calls, which was the domain of…

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    Comment #45451192

    It was a proper Gmail account? Or was it an email@domain account that maybe was using her work email address? I’m asking because I used to work adjacent to this area, and I know of…

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    Comment #44380702

    I am very much not a lawyer, and while I work for Google, I do not work on this, and this is just my plain language reading of the docs. When you look at the github repo for the ge…

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    Comment #44380640

    That's because it's a bit of a nesting doll situation. As you can see here: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/tree/main If you scroll to the bottom, it says that the term…

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    Comment #44379301

    It's a lot more nuanced than that. If you use the free edition of Code Assist, your data can be used UNLESS you opt out, which is at the bottom of the support article you link to: …

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    Comment #44021633

    Because as people start bidding they become invested in the outcome, and can often be convinced to go higher than they otherwise would. The trick is to set it under the minimum pri…

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    Comment #43985041

    Are we talking about the same Airbnb? When I think of resorts, I think of staff, bars, restaurants, activities, often all inclusive, and often catered to my desired demographic (ad…

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    Comment #43731635

    FWIW, as far as I'm aware, it wasn't gmail scraping that was the cause of Amazon pulling that information. It was third-party plugins that read people's inboxes to provide them wit…

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    Comment #43417961

    I didn’t move the goal posts, I was referring to your married couple example. If you are married and you jointly agree to change the standard of living because of your shared goals…

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    Comment #43412994

    > It doesn't make sense that married people can willfully lower standard of living but non custodial parents cannot. Of course it does - because both parents are responsible for th…

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    Comment #43399462

    Neither of those are enterprise products, though. Looker, as a better comparison, is still available on AWS and Azure.

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    Comment #43389489

    If you have a few minutes, reading the full complaint is worth it - the blog posts and the articles don't really do the whole story justice. There is extremely damning evidence tha…

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    Comment #43031810

    Well, for options it's more complicated than that - you can have ISOs that convert to NSOs to allow people to defer having to exercise illiquid options when they leave the company.…

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    Comment #43031564

    Wait - there’s a lot of assumptions being made in this thread. Is everyone you’re referring to a former employee? Are you sure you had RSUs, proper, as opposed to options? If you h…

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    Comment #42743059

    I think now we're just arguing semantics. The only billing metrics for cell phones that are visible to the user are usage in minutes and data. This is the easiest type of metric to…

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    Comment #42733901

    Sure, it’s also very easy to understand paying for deli cold cuts by the pound, but it doesn’t make it a good comparison. Consumer telecom is a great example of a very constrained …

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    Comment #42733274

    It's funny, this was actually one scenario that I thought about mentioning but I had to get on a plane and was running out of time. It is true you CAN do this, but very few do, for…

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    Comment #42731526

    I spend a lot of time on pricing and packaging of SaaS software and the challenge is real. Everybody says they want simple pricing, which often aligns to seats or MAU - but then th…

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    Comment #42662625

    But by their own admission, other than for two states they don’t uniquely count people, it’s counting admissions. That could skew the numbers meaningfully.

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    Comment #42132576

    As someone who rented for 20 years in NYC, this is a bizarre scenario you describe. You deal with a broker during the leasing process, and then after you lease it, you pay the land…

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    Comment #42132540

    In NYC, rents went way down, to the point where there was a sticker shock from people who moved to NY during Covid and were shocked when prices went back up a year or two later.

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    Comment #41640335

    Right, you CAN set that up, but in the US, not accepting visa and Mastercard is essentially untenable if you are a retailer or restaurant. You might be able to avoid accepting AmEx…

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    Comment #41561909

    It’s not justice towards the employer, but justice towards your peers, both those who you work with directly, as well as those who are negatively impacted because you took a job th…