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Poncho

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2015 by Kuan Huang · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Oct 16, 2015
Assertion Supported
Poncho relies on human writers rather than algorithms for weather forecasts
“Every day we have actually real human beings write these forecasts. It's not really automated by any machine or algorithm.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 16:41 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
Oct 16, 2015
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Kuan Huang: Poncho plans to monetize through personalized recommendations and commerce
“We are not really focusing on monetization right now, but I think potentially we, first we understand, that's why one of the reasons I really want to understand people's daily routine is that we can offer you something that's truly tailored to a user.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 18:16 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
Oct 16, 2015 bullish
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Kuan Huang: Future weather services will proactively push forecasts to users
“So I was thinking maybe the future of weather service is a weather service. You never need to check the weather comes to you when you need it.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 7:58 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
Oct 16, 2015 bullish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Poncho operates in 15 states covering 60% of the local population
“Right now, we have puncture service in around 15 states. The population we're covering in the states run as around 60%.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 11:35 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
Oct 16, 2015
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Poncho expanded into six states with only two extra editorial hires
“Our last expansion basically we were able to expand to six states all at once, and I only needed one or two more people to the editorial team.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 17:59 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
Oct 16, 2015
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Poncho groups 2,600 New York locations into 20 clusters to scale content
“In New York State, there are 2600 locations that has the weather forecast. Then we can group these locations into probably 20 or 30 groups based on a similar weather pattern, so our editors only need to write 20 messages to cover these regions.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 17:39 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
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