KerryJones

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by KerryJones 4y ago
In general I agree that banking sector is definitely not strongly in my circle of competence, but on my only long-term bank I'm in I've made 100+% ROI within a couple of years. That could certainly be luck. To give advise on what
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by KerryJones 4y ago
... it's only a little over 20 years old? You think it's been going down hill since early 2000s?
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Oof. Currently at Google. This feels very real.
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Agreed -- but are you saying they shouldn't have sold at all? I don't think you can say it was a "wrong decision" at the moment, I agree that it was too late. But you could also go back and say they shouldn't have i
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Yep -- so if they lost 8% on their other bets, that was still accounted for in my valuation. Even if they lost up to 40% in their other bets (as other comments show).
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I think I only said one wrong thing -- that they would last through this. The rest is factual (still is), I'm not positive that having bought a chunk wouldn't have a positive result (see other comment)
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I was looking at buying in with 1/60th or less of my portfolio (I'm a focused investor, most of my investments are 1/10th of my portfolio) so it would have been a small bet, I was acknowledging this as risky. I'm still n
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Well, I was wrong: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Investor here (trying to buy into SVB), but I don't currently own anything, nor do I have any current accounts with SVB. Everything I can see about them is completely overblown. Short and sweet version of research so far: - They had so
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by KerryJones 4y ago
They factually lost 1.8B on 21B worth of investments, this is an 8.5% loss. Unclear why there's conjecture like previous comments saying its a 25% loss. They did the right thing by selling out now -- likely because they see more rates
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Love this idea -- also curious on privacy policy
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I agree it's much harder with someone further in their career (and we worked with candidates to figure out what made sense, either shortening the trial, allowing other time to be included, etc.) To answer your last question. On Monday,
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I work at a FAANG and took a paycut to get here (from a startup).
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I really wish I had the reference, but I did the "paid trial" for a week for out interviewing process (startup, 40m evaluation) based on an article that said that standard tech interviews gave you an 18% predictability and that pa
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Reminds me of Paul Graham saying that it was the founders he stopped hearing from (when he was running YC) that he started to worry about. The ones that stopped sharing were usually in trouble -- which is the time that has the most potentia
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Very impressed you managed to do this day of the release -- are you open to sharing your repo?
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by KerryJones 4y ago
Anyone who is privacy/security savvy, is there anything that can be done to protect my data as a T-Mobile user? I avoid 2FA SMS authentication wherever I can (use Authenticator for most things)
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I love the UI but it seems to be missing what location it has loaded for? I know it asks for it, it is useful for me to see what location it is reporting on.
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Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ(newsroom.spotify.com)
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Investing Fundamentals: Probabilities(blog.kerryjones.net)
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I have almost no interest in showrunning but I enjoy the slightly biting writing style: "So you finally have the Brass Ring... and guess what? It won't make that you never found a publisher for your first novel any less painful, a
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I strongly feel your first point -- there's been a weird ethos at the FAANG company I'm employed at where you are encouraged to solo-learn, despite many others on the team who could share the learning and create camaraderie in far
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I love the idea of tracking people's predictions or buy/sell calls because I believe 99%+ are doing poorly and getting people hyped up just to lose money, it would be great to be able to show them their own record (I think many do
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by KerryJones 4y ago
https://stockoptions.io/ I'm a value investor and found that most options trading tools out there are focused on day/momentum traders and were missing the necessary skillset that value investors use when selecting
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by KerryJones 4y ago
1. Laravel for backend -- continues to be one of the strongest communities & ecosystem and feels beautiful to work with 2. VueJS for frontend 3. Hosted on Laravel Forge (using AWS) 4. Amazon RDS - MySQL (or similar) -- relational databa
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I think that's largely true but not absolutely true. What all investors want is return on capital, what VCs are gambling on is that 1/10 (or 2-3 in a 100) are going to be moonshots, they're taking higher risks and hoping for
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by KerryJones 4y ago
"despite their funds maintaining..." -- the largest the AUM, the harder it is to make good returns. This is well documented/commented by all the large fund holders. It is significantly easier to make good returns with less mo
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One Verily Forward (Layoffs)(verily.com)
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by KerryJones 4y ago
"Investors don't necessarily want an all-weather business." This may be true for some investors, but the largest hedge fund in the world Bridgewater) is famous for their all-weather fund. That means that those investors do
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by KerryJones 4y ago
I would love to hear about people at Zapier talking about this process -- it sounds delightful. Many companies have a really rough internal transfer process and being able to try out or go into a new role sounds like a really good fit. I&#x

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