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by davidu 6y ago
You say this as if those engineers (and it's not 100,000) are all voting in a democratic decision-making process on feature direction. It's a very small number of senior leaders who make these calls. Remember, Sundar used to be in
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by davidu 6y ago
The only thing I wish I had done differently was reduce dilution, which is exactly what Aaron mentions here.
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by davidu 6y ago
This is great advice that has been ignored for the 16 combined years I've been fundraising as an entrepreneur and investing as a VC. No reason it'll change now though hopefully writing about it helps a bit. One of the great myths
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by davidu 6y ago
This perspective is understandable, but requires a lot more reading before you stick to it. There's a lot of bad bad history based on this viewpoint.
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by davidu 6y ago
This is a bizarre article. North was unsuccessful in the market and basically ran out of money and time. Google picked up the people and IP and those efforts are now being directed elsewhere within Google. The idea that Google killed off a
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by davidu 6y ago
Worth it.
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by davidu 6y ago
I used to work with Matthew. He's next level smart, and very modest. We are very lucky he is a good hacker and not an evil hacker. :-)
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by davidu 6y ago
"To analyze how VC deal activity responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant economic crisis, we use data from Pitchbook, CB Insights, and Capital IQ. We tabulate VC investment deals in U.S.-based startups by industry and sector u
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by davidu 6y ago
Yes it was quite a reaction. Regardless, it all worked out, long since behind him.
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by davidu 6y ago
Samy is my hero. (same guy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
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by davidu 6y ago
Very happy DigitalOcean customer for 4+ years. Great to see this, too.
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by davidu 6y ago
It's not the your opinion differs, is that's you are presenting a cognitive dissonance. If you have years of experience then you would understand exactly how this happens, and yet, you think it was avoidable, which is a misunderst
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by davidu 6y ago
It's confusing to me to read this -- you write like you know what you're talking about, but that can't be the case because if you knew what you were talking about you'd understand how the kind of mistake that happened ca
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by davidu 6y ago
Just FYI -- Most colo facilities are prohibiting customer access during the COVID-19 lockdowns and have gone to 'smart hands' only for health and safety reasons.
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by davidu 6y ago
It's https://startbootstrap.com/themes/sb-admin-2/ which is free.
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by davidu 7y ago
This headline is weird. It appears this is temporary, and in the EU. But good for CamelCamelCamel, seems like the right call.
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by davidu 7y ago
One of the hardest things about this process for a sensitive and compassionate leader is knowing when to not try and "make it better." This is probably the greatest video clip on the subject of all time: https://www.you
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by davidu 7y ago
Church / Religious gatherings are exempted, which is, insane. In SF, I think all religious services have moved to Zoom-style video format with very positive feedback from what I am hearing.
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by davidu 7y ago
Yep. I’m not sure you read the whole thing, as I cover the grandma birthday example. Sentiment-wise we agree, tactically it’s still not the best practice. I know it sounds like it is. It really depends on the maturity of the workforce and l
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by davidu 7y ago
Thanks and yep.
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by davidu 7y ago
I could have and maybe should have added that. Totally agree. They can take it home and review and you should send it digitally anyways so they have a copy.
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by davidu 7y ago
I know. I edited that a few times. Didn’t quite get it right. Subtle nuance to “you will get through this” and “you will be fine” I guess. Not perfect.
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by davidu 7y ago
By all means, do more. Many companies thought they would raise in Q3 and have little chance of that now and need to make immediate alternative plans to have a chance to stay in business. If they can pay more — I hope they do. And on the lat
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by davidu 7y ago
Hah! For those who don't get it, this is an homage to how Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone. He said (a few times): "An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices!"
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by davidu 7y ago
There are a few startups pitching a "nuclear power station in a shipping container" idea -- and having heard them and done a bunch of reading about the state of nuclear, it's hard to not come away with a complete and strong b
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by davidu 7y ago
Not sure what any of your reply means. Adding OS support isn’t required. People just run a local resolver that supports these things. No different than any other application. Nothing arcane. Certainly no more than HTTP and SSL. I think you
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by davidu 7y ago
Doth protest too much. People don’t take issue with DoH, they take issue with an advertising supported browser like Mozilla’s unicast (and now bicast) centralization of DNS traffic that was previously distributed. We invented DNSCrypt. Ther
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by davidu 7y ago
I switched my default to DDG yesterday. Very happy so far. New Google SERPs are insulting to me as a user.
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by davidu 7y ago
OpenNIC is no different than ICANN aside from being a failure. It just appears to be better since it uses a talk track that's attractive, but structurally, it's probably even worse than ICANN.
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by davidu 7y ago
SaaS is another way of outsourcing IT. Personal IT or someone else's. You could replace dropbox with an FTP server, too. But most people value their time more and will just pay $90 who want this set of features.

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