
She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph
09/26/23 • 54 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Kate Rudolph, who tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entire Internet.
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Kevin Riggle interviews Kate Rudolph, who tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entire Internet.
Credits:
Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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