Kuan Huang
Managing Director, IOSG Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Kuan Huang is best known as the founder of Poncho, a personalized weather chatbot incubated at Betaworks. He subsequently co-founded Scout, served as Head of Product at Uniswap Labs, and became a Managing Director at IOSG Ventures.
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Everything Kuan Huang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Kuan Huang: The weather app market suffers from horrible product innovation
“It's a huge market, but the innovation is, is horrible.”
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: Users only check weather and transit apps twice daily
“Weather also checking like transit, transit updates. That's the things you don't check every hour. Like for most people. You only do that like at the beginning of your day when you about to leave home for work, or, and at the end of the day before you head hom…”
Kuan Huang: Betaworks acts as a co-founder, not just an investor
“So I consider beta works as a, not only just an investor, but also a co-founder.”
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%.”
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.”
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.”
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: 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.”
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