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Oct 6, 2021 · David Wiesen is one of the four co-founders of Nextdoor, a neighborhood app that plans to go public through a merger with SPAC Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II. Learn more about Nextdoor's history, valuation, and competition with Facebook Neighborhoods.
David Wiesen is a data scientist and software developer with experience in content-based classification and machine learning. He works at Nextdoor, a social platform for neighborhoods, and shares his insights on LinkedIn.
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Oct 22, 2015 · Learn about David Wiesen, one of the founders of Nextdoor, a hyper-local social network that connects neighbors. Find out his background, his nickname, his favorite Nextdoor moments, and his hobbies.
- What’s The Story Behind Your Nickname, Ice Weasel?
- Tell Us Something About Your Background
- What Led You to Co-Found Nextdoor?
- How Was The Experience of Building and Launching Nextdoor?
- What’s Your Favorite Nextdoor moment?
- What Do You Like Most About Nextdoor’s Engineering Culture?
- What Are Your Favorite Things to Do Outside Work?
Well, as someone with the last name Wiesen, the nickname “Weasel” was something that both my brothers and I shared. The “Ice” part was actually added on in college. My roommates and I encountered the term “Ice Weasel” because someone had written the phrase “The Ice Weasels are coming” onto a desk in one of our lecture halls. They were referring thi...
I was born in New York, just north of the city, and lived there until I was 7. My family moved out to California (Marin County) and I have lived in the Bay Area ever since. I studied computer science at Stanford and have been a professional engineer since graduating in 1999. Most of my experience has been in small to medium sized startups. The only...
I left Google in 2008 to join a small and ambitious sports startup called Fanbase. After 2.5 years of trying to be successful, we decided that we didn’t have a successful product and that we should do something else. About half of the Fanbase team stuck around in the summer of 2010 and began brainstorming the next great idea. For much of the summer...
The experience has been almost exclusively wonderful. Every idea comes with predictions and aspirations about how people will use it, and almost from the beginning, people used our product in a manner that was very consistent with how we hoped they would. In addition, we naturally hoped that people would continue to communicate with each other on N...
There have been so many wonderful moments in the past 5 years, both concerning Nextdoor itself, and also the usage of our product. I will force myself to pick one of each: My favorite moment involving a member was a story that happened in Orlando Florida in early 2014. In short, a woman had let her yard fall into disrepair and one of her neighbors ...
We have built a team of engineers who do great work without a lot of ego and who constantly strive to get better. The result is an environment where feedback is shared openly through code reviews and other forums. In addition, we have a culture of generosity where help is freely given from one person to another, even on different teams. I often spe...
I love to travel, eat delicious food, and take road trips with my wife and two dogs. In addition, I am an avid curler. After first being introduced to the sport during the 2010 Winter Olympics, I have been fairly obsessed with it ever since, and curl regularly here with the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club, as well as traveling 5–6 times a year ...
History. Nirav Tolia, Sarah Leary, Prakash Janakiraman and David Wiesen co-founded Nextdoor in 2008. Tolia had previously helped start Epinions. Early investors included Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, and Rich Barton. The concept and patents that Nextdoor is based on were invented by "FatDoor" CEO Raj Abhyanker [7] in 2006. [8]
May 11, 2018 · Learn how Nextdoor's CEO and co-founder David Wiesen led the company to address racial profiling on its platform in 2015. The article describes the data-driven and agile approach they used to test and implement a solution.
David Wiesen is a co-founder and director of engineering at Nextdoor, a social network for neighborhoods. He has three current jobs at Nextdoor, including co-founder and site lead in Toronto.
