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by econner 8y ago
I imagine a lot of drivers do not have the luxury to stop driving if it doesn't make sense because Uber has encouraged many to take on financing (either through Uber or elsewhere) for these luxury / more recent vehicles that they
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by econner 8y ago
I don't think the board has much say. The co-founders have control over all stockholder decisions and even if they were fired (which would only happen if they turned on each other) they would still exercise the same control of stockhol
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by econner 8y ago
Very good point. I hadn't thought of that.
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by econner 8y ago
Are you actually equating intentionally quieting a credible sexual harassment claim to withdrawing secret service protection?
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by econner 8y ago
Sure, but if you're terminated for cause you shouldn't receive anything. The $90 million was for Google to keep the story quiet and to keep Rubin from working for a competitor.
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by econner 8y ago
From the story on Andy Rubin, > In Silicon Valley, it is widely known that Mr. Page had dated Marissa Mayer, one of the company’s first engineers who later became chief executive of Yahoo. (Both were single.) Eric Schmidt, Google’s forme
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by econner 8y ago
Also, building a company is not all or nothing. You could even shoot smaller and likely get to $1M in revenue for a $5M or so company. The odds are much better.
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Pinterest 2017 Sales Rise 58 Percent to $473M(bloomberg.com)
1 points by econner 8y ago|0 comments
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by econner 8y ago
Producing the work needs to cost money though for it to be viable.
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by econner 8y ago
I chose a company without really considering the city (SF) after college. A lot of my friends ended up in the area as well. Then my network grew and it's become harder to leave, even though I keep planning to.
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Think about Equity(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
61 points by econner 8y ago|60 comments
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by econner 8y ago
One of the things I didn’t appreciate until leaving college was how much the world narrows. In college you’re surrounded by people at similar life stages who are more open to new experiences and to meeting new people (or at least more so th
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by econner 8y ago
I agree with your post-college assessment, but I think the skill that's lacking practice is the ability to approach and meet new people. Phones, texting as the dominant form of communication, and swipe apps seem to have made that inter
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by econner 8y ago
I liked Nicholas C. Zakas book on ES6: Understanding ES6 https://leanpub.com/understandinges6/read Free to read online.
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by econner 9y ago
They do say within $1. But yea it's a little weird to attempt to cover your tracks and then only vary the total by 28 cents.
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by econner 9y ago
Is there any data on how much the executives of Theranos profited while trying to produce these blood tests?
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by econner 9y ago
Thought it was going to be Softbank, no it actually is the Saudis directly.
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by econner 9y ago
Well said.
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by econner 9y ago
Standing strong under HN load. Which scaleable node js javascript react framework did you build this with?
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by econner 9y ago
Wow, seems like everyone is taking 40% dilution on this deal and SoftBank probably has huge liquidity preference. I believe DoorDash's last round was also done with a multiplier on the liquidity preference. Crazy.
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by econner 9y ago
You should look at Gwern's research on the topic: https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
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by econner 9y ago
From Saudi oil magnates.
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by econner 9y ago
He was also President of Stanford for a bunch of years.
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by econner 9y ago
Yea, ponzi.io was one. Screenshot from 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140208200431/http://ponzi.io/
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by econner 9y ago
To a degree the internet bubble was sad. Many people lost their shirt in the dotcom crash when they took on debt to exercise stock options or mortgaged their homes to buy dotcom stocks that failed. But, of course, the internet bubble allowe
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by econner 9y ago
The sad thing about this Bitcoin bubble is that it amounts to taking money from everyone who got in after you. That's the only thing that is giving it value right now: new people willing to pay higher prices for BTC. People have mortg
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by econner 9y ago
Yes, memorably when the Mt. Gox exchange collapsed & others before that when there was very little volume. The difference here is that it doesn't appear to be driven by any big event such as a major exchange collapsing. Possibly th
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by econner 9y ago
Pretty spot on. Investing in cryptocurrencies at this stage was just about taking money from the ones who got in after you.
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by econner 9y ago
But why should XLM have any value? Isn’t it just a means to transfer other things?
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by econner 9y ago
But, structure the comp so that all of your early employees & people in the trenches only get paid if you IPO. Then get mad when those same employees openly wonder if and when you are going to IPO.

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