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Elizabeth Holmes Is a Visionary, and We Need More Like Her(realclearmarkets.com)
4 points by exogeny 7y ago|5 comments
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by exogeny 7y ago
Considering he has the votes to fire the entire board, I'd be shocked if this happens. Softbank is completely fucked.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Cool! Now tell me how you'll become a profitable company.
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by exogeny 7y ago
It's less about the actual transaction and more about the structure that permitted it and the capricious willingness to do it. There are red flags all over the place with this company, and the optics of him doing that just adds more fu
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by exogeny 7y ago
It’s sort of amazing that given the fast-moving legalization of sports betting, there hasn’t been a lot of VC action in the space, either on the platform side or on the content/services side. I can count on one hand the number of funde
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by exogeny 7y ago
Sure, but that's not really a model, right? (Sorry, not to attack you.) I really hope the MBAs on the M&A team for Yahoo! didn't just say "Well, we used to be cool, but we're not anymore, so.." Tumblr was growin
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by exogeny 7y ago
Does anyone want to try to elucidate whatever bull case Yahoo! modeled out to buy it in the first place? Because God knows anyone with a brain should have probably been able to see that it was going to be a disaster.
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by exogeny 7y ago
I sort of hate these articles, because the comments always boil down to three main categories: 1. I vape and this hasn’t happened to me, therefore I’m an expert on public health policy 2. I vape and because it’s better than cigarettes, it’s
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by exogeny 7y ago
I bought FF Kievit back in the day because it was the most beautiful thing I had ever saw. Now everything on the web is Proxima Nova and it is a boring, boring place.
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by exogeny 7y ago
This basically describes Nadal as a pusher, which is a wild overstatement relative to his creativity and shotmaking.
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by exogeny 7y ago
>The company doesn’t disclose revenues but says its ad business runs to tens of millions of dollars per year. I am extremely skeptical of this claim.
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by exogeny 7y ago
He made investors believe in a non-sensical vision that is not rooted in any sort of financial or commercial reality in the middle of an insane bull market. Simple.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Seriously. The comments here (and on the article itself) are scary, scary stuff.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Ah, count me in the nostalgia pool too. Had lots of good times and good friends in the 412/724 BBS scene. And what a great outlet for creativity! Drawing ANSI, modding Renegade, composing MODs for other people to download. It was great
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by exogeny 7y ago
For me, the etmyology (and context) of "script kiddies" laid within mIRC warscripting. Lots and lots of proto-hacker troublemakers creating various low-level ICMP attacks, ping floods, and so on. Timeline is generally about the sa
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by exogeny 7y ago
This is a foolish viewpoint. Amazon got immense economies of scale as they grew, Uber’s costs scale alongside it. It drives me crazy that so many people equivocate them.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Another CMU alum here. Just looking at this gave me PTSD. 213, man. It's a killer.
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by exogeny 7y ago
I think the greatest legacy of D&D are the syndication of its game mechanics into other arenas. Fantasy sports, for example, is nothing but D&D for sports fans.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Do you think Ben Horowitz will give you $50mm just so he can hang out with Nas?
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by exogeny 8y ago
I disagree, mostly on the basis of how many people I know write like shit, and analyze/synthesize arguments like toddlers. To put it another way, it’s not about the publication. Or even the material. It’s about improving and setting st
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by exogeny 8y ago
So many unbelievable parts, but this one stood out to me: >She tells former colleagues, according to the two executives, that she is greeted by well-wishers on the street who are rooting for her resurrection. That says it all. Beyond the
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Elizabeth Holmes' Final Months at Theranos(vanityfair.com)
99 points by exogeny 8y ago|71 comments
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by exogeny 8y ago
In my opinion, way too many people bend over backwards to defend the rise of vaping through the lens of "better than cigarettes" equating to "healthy". My view - just like my view with marijuana - we need to do a better
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by exogeny 8y ago
You are grossly overestimating the technological competency of the average Wall Street analyst and retail investor.
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by exogeny 8y ago
It's unequivocally true in the case of SBNation, which is their most trafficked property. It follows the model originally brought to market by Bleacher Report, which used unpaid "contributors" creating low-grade SEO chum cont
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by exogeny 8y ago
I mean, is it really this difficult? Cost of production plummeted to zero, vastly increasing supply. That increase of supply combined with additional sophistication of users meant that ads became exponentially less valuable. Getting despera
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by exogeny 8y ago
Oh man, this is amazing. I'm teary-eyed with nostalgia, too. For anyone who is unfamiliar with the demoscene and tracker music, here are some recommended old-school tunes to spin up to get a feel for the art at the time. (Someone more
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by exogeny 8y ago
Max, what is your take on what's going on? Would love an insider's perspective, to the extent that you're comfortable with giving it.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Very painful? Why not just take out a loan? Wilbur Ross whole-heartedly recommends it!
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by exogeny 8y ago
It will never happen. I've long thought that in the same way that DDG is a viable alternative to Google on a critical front (privacy), it's viable for an enterprising young VC to carve out a market based on radical transparency of

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