Benjamin Tumbleson

San Francisco

Strategic Initiatives at FLYR. I focus on efforts to create growth: new verticals, GTM strategy, partnerships, and more. Last role: led ML SaaS implementation teams. Prior: Deloitte Consulting

Jan 28, 2019 Product Study

"Vision" - A study of a new Plaid Product Offering

Finance is not "one size fits all". How can a leader in FinTech expand their offerings to enable segmentation and continue to reduce friction? Here's a proposal for a new product - Vision - I'll explore the potential value and use cases to consider.

Dec 26, 2018

How daylight savings time impacts international meetings

When working across time zones, it's easy to forget how daylight savings affects meetings with parties all over the globe. Here's a visual guide and examples to help to frame the problem.

Nov 1, 2018

The next precision input device: touch (and pen)

When thinking about precision input devices - a mouse, trackpad, pen, or finger - which represents the future? Let's unpack approaches from Apple and Microsoft.

Oct 11, 2018

Making Rocket Science Cool

This last Sunday, October 7th, I tuned in to watch SpaceX's SAOCOM 1A Mission, set to deliver a Argentinian satellite to low-earth orbit, designed to gather soil moisture information. This is SpaceX's 17th launch this year, and they're on track for at least another ten before the end of the year.

Sep 29, 2018

Compounding 101 - learning JavaScript along the way

Compounding is such a magical concept in numbers and particularly finance. As I step further in building skillsets in web design, I'll build a reactive compounding calculator with a visualization using Vue.