{"id":11014,"date":"2017-07-20T19:38:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:52:56","slug":"helping-friends-get-amex-and-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/helping-friends-get-amex-and-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Friends Get Amex and Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>Helping others by using your engineering degree means engineering a method, protocol and replicable set of recipes. Because execution is some of the toughest work because it is so mind numbingly easy.<\/p>\n<p>based on the original blogger complaint<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mike-arrington-unpaid-blogger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mike-arrington-unpaid-blogger.jpg\" alt=\"mike-arrington-unpaid-blogger\" width=\"262\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mike-arrington-unpaid-blogger.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mike-arrington-unpaid-blogger-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spg-amex-mike-arrington-larry-chiang.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Arrington got a credit card from Amex after I made some calls. Lee Linden got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/stanford-engineering\/amex-black\/\">black card<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brady-shih-tzu-tiffany-larry-chiang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brady-shih-tzu-tiffany-larry-chiang.jpg\" alt=\"brady-shih-tzu-tiffany-larry-chiang\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brady-shih-tzu-tiffany-larry-chiang.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/brady-shih-tzu-tiffany-larry-chiang-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestworldHBO\">@WestworldHBO<\/a> experience sounds awesome from press reviews but if you weren&#8217;t camping in line, looks like won&#8217;t be going today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SDCC?src=hash\">#SDCC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xk4YEPzFTA\">https:\/\/t.co\/xk4YEPzFTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysullivan\/status\/888053783757955076\">July 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SD_Comic_Con\">@SD_Comic_Con<\/a> not sure if they&#8217;re gonna open it back up, but it looks like they&#8217;re already toast for today&#8217;s appointments <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BtOm4fNvZD\">pic.twitter.com\/BtOm4fNvZD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Boggan@Comic_Con (@robbiedeezle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbiedeezle\/status\/888045084041560065\">July 20, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let me text some people and make some phone calls Re <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SDCC?src=hash\">#SDCC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tcDisrupt?src=hash\">#tcDisrupt<\/a>&#8216;s Westworld VR Brand activation <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/outpiknKXD\">pic.twitter.com\/outpiknKXD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\/status\/888101717086158848\">July 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nDanny Sullivan got access after I made some calls<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Here the &#8220;seen through my eyes&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spectacles\">@Spectacles<\/a> look at the Westworld Experience, which is so well done. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Ss9K7qu5p\">pic.twitter.com\/2Ss9K7qu5p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysullivan\/status\/888132199773388800\">July 20, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you need access to the Four Seasons for SXSW gather up your Stanford engineering co-founder buddies and text me<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/larry-chiang-four-seasons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/larry-chiang-four-seasons-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"larry-chiang-four-seasons\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/larry-chiang-four-seasons.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/larry-chiang-four-seasons-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/larry-chiang-four-seasons-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Helping others by using your engineering degree means engineering a method, protocol and replicable set of recipes. Because execution is some of the toughest work because it is so mind numbingly easy. based on the original blogger complaint &#8220;Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card&#8221; Mike Arrington got a credit card from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}