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Will Strimling
data rules everything around me
William Wolf is a software engineer and entrepreneur with extensive experience in data visualization and product development. He worked at Airtable from July 2021 to September 2022 as part of their Data Visualization team.1
Career Highlights
Airtable and Bayes: William joined Airtable following the acquisition of Bayes, a company he co-founded and led as CEO from February 2019 to July 2021.1 Bayes was a Y Combinator-backed startup that developed tools allowing non-technical people to automatically generate effective charts and communicate insights through interactive stories.3
Current Role: As of 2024, William is the founder and CEO of Gestalt, a company building software to help businesses better understand people. He describes their product as a "Human Data Interface".3
Previous Experience:
- Product Manager at Twitter (2018-2019), focusing on conversational health issues like misinformation and harassment1
- Research Assistant at the University of Washington's Interactive Data Lab (2014-2018)1
- Various roles including Product Manager at Oscar Health, Visual Journalist at FiveThirtyEight, and Software Engineer at Change.org1
Education
William studied Computer Science with an emphasis on Data Science at the University of Washington in Seattle.3
Personal
William is based in New York but has strong connections to San Francisco and Tel Aviv.3 He's known for his interest in data visualization, product development, and using technology to increase freedom and prosperity.23
Highlights
Excited to hang out with all the other people working at the intersection of interactive visual data exploratory analysis and latent embedding spaces today.
Sometimes I feel like I’m totally alone in these obsessions — perhaps a little deranged… Not so! There are dozens of us!
Shout to @enjalot for bringing us together!
Tailwinds are one hell of a drug
