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whockey

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About whockey

I like pomegranates and Indian Brown Ale.

I'm at williamhockey.com or at williamrhockey {the at symbol} {google's mail .com}

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47980760

    Column ( https://column.com/ ) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) Column is building the infra…

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    Comment #47224283

    Column | https://column.com | backend, tooling and/or infra | San Francisco (in-person) Column is building the financial operating system to power the movement and holding of money…

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    Comment #45801505

    Column ( https://column.com/ ) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) Column is building the infra…

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    Column ( https://column.com/ ) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) Column is building the infra…

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    Column ( https://column.com/ ) | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time Column is building the infra…

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    Comment #41940755

    VW relaunching the Scout brand

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    Comment #41716213

    Appreciate it - its a fun, but hard problem! Yeah we're pretty hardcore on in-person in SF, which I isn't optimal for most people. As we get larger we may get more flex :)

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    Comment #41716203

    Thanks for the kind words! Will get back to you in a bit.

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    Comment #41715434

    CEO of Column here! Have hired a couple amazing people off of HN recently, feel free ping me 1:1 at william [at] column dot com or ping in the comments.

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    Comment #36806136

    Founder of a developer bank, Column N.A. here. If people are interested in starting to build on FedNow hit us up. column.com/fednow and my email is william at column dot com .

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    Comment #31116857

    420 years

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    Comment #31114834

    We built everything in house!

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    Comment #31112041

    Griffin is super rad!

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    Comment #31112012

    You can invite others to your team!

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    Comment #31111147

    I'm glad you noticed the account numbers as pointers concept - we think its pretty cool. I think there's some rad use cases that people will come up with! Thanks on the typo...depl…

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    Comment #31111019

    Nope! We're a bank not an issuing processor (its pretty confusing...), we don't wrap any vendors or 3rd parties. However, they're an excellent issuing processor so a bunch of our c…

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    Comment #31110993

    We plan on rolling out some corresponding banking services this year to help people with multi-currency accounts and international wires - but it would still be under our US charte…

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    Comment #31110959

    Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang is incredible.

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    Comment #31110937

    We let developers bring their own KYC providers. There are so many great solutions out there I don't think the world needs another one :) In general our approach is to focus on bui…

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    Comment #31110885

    In the US (and most countries) in order to get access to the central bank (in the US the fed) and do 'banking things' like holding money, moving money, and lending money you have t…