@gabrielayuso.eth

Last Friday was my last day working on Farcaster. I joined Farcaster as a user in July 2022. Two year later, in July 2024, I joined Merkle to work on Farcaster. Working on a social product I already loved alongside a strong team put together by @dwr and @v was a great experience. The difference in shipping velocity between Merkle and Google was night and day. Casting about what I shipped that week and the immediate feedback I received from our users was fun and motivating. Funny enough, I decided to leave before I learned about the plans to sell. Perhaps I also sensed that it was a good time to close this chapter. As for what's next for me, earlier this week I came back to work at Google Search to help build the native apps and AI Mode.

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