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The first week at Wealthfront

May 17, 2013

I just finished my first week at Wealthfront. In my first three hours I fixed a small production bug. By the end of the week, I had shipped my first feature: the backend code to serve up the commit statistics feeding the visualization at our new engineering page. Moving this quick was empowering, and it… Read more

My First Day

January 08, 2013

Today was my first day at Wealthfront. It was awesome. Let me explain a little about myself, so you understand my full meaning. I’m a product guy (Wealthfront’s first), and product guys are supposed to understand the user and the business. Strictly speaking, we aren’t supposed to write code. Even if we’re totally uncloseted geeks…. Read more

Moneyball: Using Modern Portfolio Theory To Win Your Fantasy Sports League

January 17, 2012

Football is pretty amazing. A few short months ago, we weren’t even sure if we were even going to have a season. Now, we have 49er-mania taking over the Bay Area, the possibility for a rematch of one of the greatest superbowls ever between the Giants and the Patriots, and Ray Lewis, well, he’s just… Read more

Converting dynamic SVG to PNG with node.js, d3 and Imagemagick

December 22, 2011

Visitors to Wealthfront might notice we’re using SVG to render the risk meter in our questionnaire, as well as your performance projection and other charts. We build our visualizations using d3.js, a fantastic library that provides just the right amount of abstraction on top of SVG to allow us to develop robust visualizations quickly. SVG… Read more

Our CEO Andy Rachleff talks about VC, entrepreneurship and Wealthfront at Dec 8th 7pm in SF Stanford Alum Club

December 07, 2011

Check out Andy Rachleff, our awesome CEO, who will speak at the Stanford SF Alum Club tomorrow night. He’s going to talk about entrepreneurship from three perspectives, developed through his career as a long-term venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital funding technology start-ups, as a lecturer teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford Business School, and as the CEO… Read more

Interesting Reads

November 21, 2011

We’re going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers. A brief history of digital typefaces Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz A javascript type inference engine Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us,… Read more