austenallred

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by austenallred 4y ago
The notion that government should be in charge of effectively eliminating speech we don't like so that private companies don't have to is _far worse_ than the current state of things.
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by austenallred 4y ago
Generally speaking PR firms try to get stuff published in big publications, not on random blogs
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by austenallred 4y ago
You should ask other founders about this. I wouldn’t leave important decisions up to HN’s crowdsourced truth-seeking.
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by austenallred 4y ago
Those do seem irrelevant to me. The cannabis one caught my eye though.
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by austenallred 4y ago
Having watched a lot of these stories go down one thread in many of them is Stripe was required by some combination of regulators/banks to freeze funds of someone who has been selling cannabis, and because of privacy cannot openly say
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by austenallred 4y ago
The Reddit thread shows that OP has interacted with Stripe through Twitter DMs at a minimum.
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by austenallred 4y ago
$165/year for software isn’t nutty. Stuff is expensive to build. If it’s useful enough you pay. If it’s not you don’t. I believe the tech stack is clojure, which makes a ton of sense given that the data store is basically a graph datab
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by austenallred 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious: How do you value your time? If you're an engineer who is paid $150/hour and Copilot saves you 5 minutes/month it just paid for itself.
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by austenallred 5y ago
By looking at an outline of one and saying, “I don’t know any of that, why waste my time?” Then becoming a billionaire.
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by austenallred 5y ago
Of course. That’s just not PG and isn’t a Business PlanTM.
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by austenallred 5y ago
It’s also a bit of an IQ test to see how you can hit balls back across the net with zero preparation.
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by austenallred 5y ago
There’s a difference between business plan and Business Plan, so to speak - a formalized document with a pretty standardized format you used to have if you, for example, wanted to get a loan from a bank. It’s mostly gone away, but there use
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by austenallred 5y ago
Seems like a lot of people are missing the point of this one. PG/YC invest at the earliest stages. The information they need is pretty much: 1. What are you doing? 2. Do people like it? 3. How big is the market? 4. What are you/te
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Bloom Institute of Technology (YC S17) Is Hiring a Senior Salesforce Engineer(jobs.lever.co)
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by austenallred 5y ago
It's now 113. I wonder if it's not so much about the selection of the episodes as it is they'll be deleting many of them, and it just takes a while.
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by austenallred 5y ago
I have no idea whether we’re in a massive bubble (or whether everything is simply more expensive because of inflation or both), but I have learned you should never blindly trust the advice of someone who uses terms like “two sigma” and “thr
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by austenallred 5y ago
Eh, because one’s time is valuable/expensive and most people would love to have more time doing what they love. It’s cool that he doesn’t want to monetize it, but I would absolutely understand if he did. You don’t have a hit like that
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by austenallred 5y ago
You're assuming zero revenue. At a total spend of $250k/yr if you can figure out how to bring in $150k/yr of revenue ($12,500/month) you've got 5 years of runway now.
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by austenallred 5y ago
Yes, NPS is an imperfect measure, as all are. What I’ve never seen is a great argument for what one should use instead.
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by austenallred 5y ago
It sounds like it's a failure of coordination more than anything; a broken system not a person acting in a way that should lead to termination (unless they are unwilling to fix said system over time).
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by austenallred 5y ago
> You also had Moritz and Sequoia renege on Finix's term sheet after they already had it signed and wired (I guess props to Sequoia for branding it as "giving it away")[1]. How is it reneging on a term sheet if they wire t
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by austenallred 5y ago
I'm also a YC founder of a (smaller, but top ~100 in terms of valuation) YC company. I don't know what your experience was like with Stripe, but the notion that Patrick has some unduly amount of power to exercise over HN and YC im
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by austenallred 5y ago
Also if you’re close to an acquisition and you start laying people off it will probably kill the acquisition anyways, so there’s that to balance.
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by austenallred 5y ago
A little weird to assume he “made” $3.2 million from the house. Who knows what he bought it for, what he owed on it, what his profit in the transaction was, etc. Maybe he’s neck deep in debt? Maybe he spent all his money on a boat assuming
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by austenallred 5y ago
> Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out. It really depends on what you're working for. If your goal is retire in 50s that's pretty
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by austenallred 5y ago
Hey everyone, Pretty excited to reach settlement on this one. The DFPI is a new regulatory agency in California that was tasked with reviewing Lambda School’s new incentive-aligned tuition ( https://lambdaschool.com/tuition&#
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by austenallred 5y ago
No, if you give back to your investors they may still hold the stock; it’s up to them what to do. You’re just transferring the stock from your account to theirs.
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by austenallred 5y ago
The title is wrong. This is simply a technicality. If USV moves the shares to another fund or distributes them back to their investors (LPs) they would appear here. This does not mean that they “dumped” 100% of their shares.
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by austenallred 5y ago
Where does it say that?
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by austenallred 5y ago
Have you ever driven a Tesla with full self driving? If you engage self driving the car pops up with a giant alert to keep your hands on the wheel and the car doesn’t allow you to use full self driving unless you wiggle the steering wheel e

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