Kif is a staff writer at Gigaom based in New York covering mobile technology. Previously, he was an editorial fellow for Wired and blogged at Gizmodo. He graduated from Oberlin College in 2012, where he also played NCAA Division III lacrosse for the perennially winless Yeomen. He changed his own legal name to Kif when he was a child for better search engine optimization.
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