Tom Verrilli
Everything Tom personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 1 episode
"The most fun thing I bought recently — I'm not joking — is a live lobster. There's this wonderful seller who goes by e-fish-co who has a seafood store down on the dock in San Diego and every morning as the boats come in he literally goes out and livestreams all of the crates of seafood coming in off the boats and then he auctions them off live on Whatnot and ships next day to your door. I got a California spiny tail lobster shipped direct to my door courtesy of a live stream."
▶ 1:21:38Personal use in 1 episode
"We use Hex Threads internally at Whatnot. I'm sure there are other comparable products, but I think it's almost hard to remember time as a PM before you had tooling like that, where you could genuinely start pulling very nuanced cohorts of data, grab an individual user where you've heard a report, actually understand exactly what this user did and saw, how many other users look like this, what the impact would be. You can build pretty meaningful sensitivity models or forecasts really, really quickly, which is incredibly powerful."
▶ 13:24Personal use in 1 episode
"I can sit and talk to Claude and understand roughly LOEs. I can sit there and go through and be like, it feels like there's some car crash of models that must be hitting new users as they open up the app, and you can literally just go through and be like, let's load up the feed and talk to me about the logic of who sees what in what order, and you can get answers really quickly."
▶ 31:48Personal use in 1 episode
"Services New South Wales actually nailed it. Bizarre to me that I would ever come on a podcast and say, actually a government-run app in Australia, of all places, is it. But I was home recently and had to do all of my life admin, and it's incredible. You ever had that concept where you're like, I wish the government has all my data, but I wish there was just like one place where I could with one click get my driver's license renewed, transfer titles, and do all of the admin that slows you down in life?"
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"I spent seven years at Twitch prior to my time at Whatnot, and that was very Amazon two-pizza team, ratio-driven. One of the things I remember at Twitch was the discovery team and the ads team were always at war for impressions. One of the first things I did when I got to Twitch was just put ads in discovery and make sure there was the same PM accountable for both."
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"If I want to sell you a pair of AirPods, I could literally hold them up to the screen and show you them and describe them and say they're AirPods. I'm going to start them at a dollar and as a buyer, you now have all the information you need to make a purchase decision."
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"I think people have just gotten this experience with like Listen Labs and others in that cohort of watching people use your product."
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"In my uni days I used to have a party trick where I'd memorized 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, cuz I thought it was like deep and really meaningful."
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