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by alaskamiller 7y ago
In the dot-com days Yahoo was $100B val. When Marissa took over it was hovering around $40B val. In the end Yahoo is priced out at $4.83B. WeWork's $40B+ IPO val and the $4B+ re-val parellels Yahoo's Icarus story. How does Marissa
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
For comparison: Marissa Mayer spent $2.3B - $2.8B on 53 acquisitions in 3 years to make Yahoo into a MaVeNS (Mobile Video Native Social) company. It didn't work because the core revenue engine just didn't flystart. Mark Zuckerberg
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
It's their first acquire in 2015 https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/weworks-first-acquisition-...
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
I used to make these spec pages. The purpose of these pages is to representative and informative than for selling or marketing. This is an absolutely great style update.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
I've worked for CEOs like Adam, tho with way less access to cash. Ambition is good only if you can pull it off, otherwise like like the greatest warrior poet of our generation Dominic Toretto would say: it don't matter if it'
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
They're doing fine. Keeping up with launching the projects in their pipelines (the event space and mobile apps in DTSJ, various partnerships to incubate business leaders). The people here on Hacker News live in a bubble, super self-abs
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Apple's DNA from the get go is being an integrator. Wozniak knows how to put it together more efficiently and Jobs scoured catalogs to get the best deals and knew where to source in the valley. The secret sauce is just the Apple way of
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
eBay started out as a tool to connect you between a seller and a buyer, evolved to empower merchants, because of competition they became a landlord mall operator. Their DNA has always been to drive traffic for growth. Amazon started out as
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
They have a wonky social network web app built into the onboarding and booking process but it's not very good compared to linkedin, facebook, or even google plus. Their booking software itself is actually pretty bad compared to other r
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
You're a dev firm on retainer. Also, it's creating more work for the principals involved. If it's a small org, they have neither time nor resources to do this to begin with, at medium org they might like it they might not, at
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Was done before, didn't work: https://venturebeat.com/2013/11/01/assembly-will-crowdsource...
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Inevitably most every creative person crave independence regardless level. So he pulled a kanye and started his own Donda. Now awaiting LoveForm x Mercedes, LoveFrom x Piguet, LoveFrom x Nike, LoveFrom x Apple luxury goods collabs.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
https://www.eatsa.com/
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
McDonalds been delivering in Asia for years. They deliver in USA with UberEats. Taco Bell partnered with GrubHub and Wendy's partnered with DoorDash. The future's already here.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Yeah it did, and restaurants actually put up stickers for it on their doors! What you're describing is what Travis Kalanick bought and have been building in LA and San Jose since last year. There are other commissary kitchens that&#x27
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
LiveReload, Pocket, PageCapture, Privacy.com, OneTab/TabsOutliner, VideoSpeedController, SocialBlade all add significant value. Safari's inspector always feels obtuse compared to Chrome or Firefox but maybe I'm just not used
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
AppleCare sends laptops to FedEx in Memphis for repair by FedEx employees. They've forgotten thermal paste on repairs to logic boards that led to system crashes once the computer kicks into gear.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Most folks wouldn't, but some on Hacker News certainly can't lose.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
You wouldn't know.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Elon is new Steve Jobs is the new Jesus. Anyone can foist one's own unbridled ambitions, mixed in with a dash of lottery dreaming, tossed in with a bit of hubris, to come up with whatever the bright shiny future could be.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Some of these comments are making me ashamed of the Hacker News after being here for 11 years.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
You're reading too deep into it. It's a quirky little anecdote written as a throwaway listicle published on a weekend beat from a third rate pop tech news site.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Your research skills is lacking. Using crunchbase or TechCrunch to figure out what's going on is like reading IMDB and watching Entertainment Tonight to figure out what's going on in Hollywood. Go find the news wires, go read the
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Also, it's PresenceLearning, a digital platform to connect learning professionals with K-12 students. It just takes two minutes of reading some context.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
The writer's a VP, won awards, worked in i-banking, and has a double bachelors from an ivy league. She's trying to be cheeky and the first hot takes from the HN community is whoa, how dare they! Relax, it's a quick sunday r
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Vancouver, Melbourne, Silicon Valley
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Never worked for the military, huh? Okay sure, you might get fired for a wrong or dumb decision, but you can still live and be fine. In the military where if you screw up it could result in all of your buddies dying. That was my situation w
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
He thinks homogenization is bad. You're a big fan of a design that's now copied over and over again, at digital agencies, it's a default client ask. They see x and assume x is expensive and wants x, then thousands of Indian d
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
You paid to join a frat.
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by alaskamiller 8y ago
Josh Williams had a startup bought, became a tech exec at Facebook, and hijacked my two letter instagram name that I had since 2012 because he wanted the vanity of @jw on every thing he can get his grubby hands on. Thanks a lot Josh William

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