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 Hi, I’m Ezra! 👋
 
-I’m a 27 year old guy who lives in Brooklyn and has been working as a Product Manager for about 4 years. I currently work at [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com), an independent, political tabloid. 
+I’m a 27 year old guy who lives in Brooklyn and has been working as a Product Manager for about 4 years. I currently work at _[The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com)_, an independent, political tabloid. 
 
 We are a team of 200 people (although most are in the newsroom – our product/eng team has 10 people) and we have have 1.2M paid + unpaid subscribers, see ~600k users/day, and publish over 400 pieces per week on average. I’m responsible for developing new features to improve reader experience by coordinating between engineering, design, business, and editorial teams to bring them to launch.
 
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 ![Ezra sitting on a stoop](https://i.imgur.com/PhCKULq.png)
 
-That startup ended up getting acquired by [VSCO](https://www.vsco.co) and I was unfortunately laid-off in the process. While I was looking for my next product role, I managed a couple of the [GrowNYC](https://www.grownyc.org) farmer’s market locations in Brooklyn. About a year after that, I landed my job at the Daily Beast where I've been for a little over 3 years.
+That startup ended up getting acquired by [VSCO](https://www.vsco.co) and I was unfortunately laid-off in the process. While I was looking for my next product role, I managed a couple of the [GrowNYC](https://www.grownyc.org) farmer’s market locations in Brooklyn. About a year after that, I landed my job at _The Daily Beast_ where I've been for a little over 3 years.
 
 ## What's the best part of working as a PM?
 
 For me, the best part of working as a PM is that every day is different and there is always something new to learn. Depending on which part of the product lifecycle I’m in, I could be working on vastly different types of tasks, which keeps the job interesting. Each time I take on a new project, there is so much to learn from understanding different user problems and figuring out potential technical solutions. Learning is cool! 😎
 
 ## Favorite thing that you worked on at The Daily Beast?
 
-My favorite thing I've worked on at the Daily Beast is probably **Commenting**, which just launched last month. 
+My favorite thing I've worked on is probably **Commenting**, which just launched last month. 
 
 This project involved coordination between 2 third-party vendors, (1) [OpenWeb](https://www.openweb.com) which is our comments / moderation provider, and (2) [Zephr](https://www.zuora.com/products/zephr) which is our user-authentication / subscription provider. The trickiest part was designing the user-flow / data-flow in such a way that when a user signs up to comment, their user profile is automatically linked between these two parties in the background, while the user sees a single account and seamless experience on the front-end. It's been really exciting to watch it come to life and see the transformation of our site from passive to active. Since our launch in mid-August, we've already received ~15k comments.