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Maksim Golivkin

Instacart price and value — designing for emotion

This article was originally published internally for Instacart colleagues in 2018

Maksim Golivkin

100x cheaper LLM fact-checker

We made LLM output easier to verify by reframing the problem from free text verification to constrained generation. As a result cost…

Maksim Golivkin

Nova Ukraine & responding to war

In March, I finished an 8-year journey on the Instacart rocketship. Good memories, lessons learned, and wins are worth more than one…

Maksim Golivkin

Biography of Cancer — summary of a book

“Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” is a Pulitzer-winning non-fiction book by Siddhartha Mukherjee describing the evolution…

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First Angel Investor Exit: Sheltr

It is an unconventional story even for the Bay Area. Sheltr was founded in November 2018, with a seed round in May and the acquisition by…

Maksim Golivkin

The city born during Gold Rush

I love the story that in 1850s gold prospectors abandoned so many ships in the harbor in San Francisco that the city had no better use of…

Maksim Golivkin

Uber IPO

Congrats to everyone, who made the Uber the phenomena it became! IPO is a strange milestone, but it will make the company stronger, as it…

Maksim Golivkin

Manager Readme or first meeting script

The last autumn my team grew from 5 to 11 engineers. In order to onboard new engineers effectively, I wrote down my values, expectations…

Maksim Golivkin

Game of Taxi — thoughts on Uber

In late 2017 in San Francisco, it felt like Uber had already lost against Lyft. My pool rides were lonely, cars started to smell bad and…

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A month of Android Accessibility

At Instacart, Solve for the Customer is our first and most important value. Recently we took a month to improve the accessibility of our…