H. Kumar Thangudu

Harry & Kumar: Q&A about running the world’s largest Print & Mail API

I first met Harry a few months ago in SF and felt he was a relentlessly resourceful entrepreneur. I knew I had to interview him about his venture and how it got started. 

1.)  Quick Bio:

Harry Zhang, ex. Product Manager at Microsoft.  Graduated w/ dual degrees in Informatics and Business Administration from Univ. of Michigan. Founder of Lob.com. 

2.) What is Lob? Lob is a seed stage startup that…

10 ways to digitally snipe someone.

http://fullcontact.com

http://stacklead.com/dev 

http://peoplegraph.io

http://qwerly.com 

http://rapleaf.com

http://fliptop.com

http://pipl.com 

http://graphdive.com

http://sellhack.com

http://zillow.com

How a Montana Farm Boy Saved Millions: The Maurice Hilleman Story

In 1919, Maurice Hilleman was born in Miles City, Montana. The next 85 years of his life he would leave a reckoning of life saving vaccines in his wake, being credited with saving more human lives than any other scientist in the 20th Century.

“Very few people, even in the scientific community, are even remotely aware of the scope of what Maurice has contributed,” Anthony Fauci, director of the US…

TL;DR- Lumosity doesn’t pass basic litmus tests of scientific validity but makes claims as such.

There is no definitive evidence that http://lumosity.com works.

If I’m out of line, call me out and I’ll make corrections to this post.

The main flaws I see in the scientific method in Lumosity are here are as follows:

Correlation/Causation- They claim or the very least imply a girl with turner’s…

Indiegogo’s History of Bad Science

TL;DR- Indiegogo allows projects that don’t pass basic litmus tests of scientific integrity and claims onto their platforms. I give 3 examples.

Solar Roadways eh?  Recently, a  friend shared an article with me about Solar Roadways, an indiegogo backed company which has raised ~$2M in a relatively short period of time.

They’ve made a lot of outrageous speculative claims that would leave any…

Information about Weev. How’d you get the name weev?

I used to have the name “Evil Weevil” on some bulletin board systems. The weevil is sort of a totemic spirit for me— it moves in swarms and destroys crops. Then I got on EFnet, which has and still has a 9 character nick limit and is pretty much one of the biggest influences on hacking and troll culture up until today. It just became weev…

Today, I wandered on San Bruno Street

Today, I sat on San Bruno street.

None of the stores accept cash. I presume it’s either to avoid taxes or reduce processing costs. My views are cynical toward taxes.

This presents a constant security threat. Most of the stores are barred and much of the streets are dilapidated with homeless people and potential customers.

As I sat in the burrito shop, I couldn’t help but think of how WhatsApp was…

Whenever I think of Charlie Shrem, I think of Wells Fargo.

The first time I discovered Mt.Gox I was standing here.

He’s 24, I think.

Whenever I think of Charlie Shrem’s prosecution and the regulatory naysayers to cryptocurrency, I can’t help but think of Wells Fargo. I personally use CoinMKT and abandoned MT.Gox after the ordeal.

Wells Fargo is a US bank that laundered ~ 0.5 Trillion(yes, that’s correct approximately 500 billion)dollars in cartel money.…

The Virality of 2 Bad Science Articles

If you have any ideas around how to sniff out logical fallacies and bad science algorithmically by…

I have customers in 30 countries for http://leanbelts.com.  I’ve automated as much as possible.

1.) http://www.webmerge.me/blog/automatically-print-and-mail-documents-with-lob[1] I like lob’s easy print mail api interface.

2.) http://populr.me[2] - I set…

Today is Sunday and  I tried buying a coat from H&M in a store in Valley Fair Mall in San Jose, California.

My debit card was scratched and thus non-functional. Worst of all, the store didn’t have a way to transact the card without swiping.

I then…

You can buy the same EXACT razors from Dorco.

Directly from Lifehacker.com

In order to get the best deal, you need to make a bulk purchase about the size of a Kleenex box. Consider: The highest-end Dollar Shave Club razor is “The Executive,” with six…