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by exogeny 9y ago
Some of both. The cultural aspects of it are certainly not specific to WeWork. (See also: "Shark Tank", pay-to-pitch conferences, etc.) They do however leverage that fetishization to a really impressive degree; everything there is
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by exogeny 9y ago
WW isn't just renting office space; they're selling a dream that YOU, yes YOU, are the next Mark Zuckerberg. They're a byproduct of the extreme fetishization of entrepreneurship that has happened over the past decade. And the
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by exogeny 9y ago
Look up how Ankur Jain's family made their money. That and this obvious PR-piece article are both enough to make not feel like eating my lunch today.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Instagram is the current leader, with Kik, Snapchat, and Messenger in some messy run-off after. I have to admit a lot of surprised how quickly Instagram got to parity and overtook Snapchat with my family, but I'm at least two decades o
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by exogeny 9y ago
Snap suffers from a fundamental paradox, one that is difficult for me to imagine an easy way to solve. They've made their bones by being a uniquely fun and social way of a certain subset of the population to share their lives without p
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by exogeny 9y ago
I wish you well on your speculation. I didn't dig into the financials all that much, or even listen to call so I'm approaching this from a place of ignorance, but I do happen to have five or six family members between the ages of
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by exogeny 9y ago
Not sure it's really all that original, except for possibly the "scale" part. A lot of VCs (Correlation must notably jump to mind) have a multi-variate model which they run, and then ultimately decide with standard terms with
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by exogeny 9y ago
You're weirdly inferring two things that I didn't come close to saying. Again, while I don't know him personally, I hold in great regard people that do and am simply relaying what they've told me, which is that whatever
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by exogeny 9y ago
It's a shame that his 1981 plane crash robbed both Steve and the world of the full use of one of the greatest engineering minds that has ever lived. A lot of people who know him personally - and I know of them personally, so it's
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by exogeny 9y ago
Appreciate the advice, thank you.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Helpful feedback on it being a red flag - I think that skillset has worked for me in the two capacities I've used it in; first, being a utility player for an early-stage company and second, as an entrepreneur. How that fits into someth
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by exogeny 9y ago
Good point - maybe what I'm looking for is the middle ground, to the extent that it's possible. I'd enjoy the stability of a slightly larger company, without the slowness and bureaucracy of a large one. I think my wheelhouse
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by exogeny 9y ago
Yes, this is correct; we returned 5x the value to our investors. Apologies for the inelegant wording.
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by exogeny 9y ago
That's helpful, thank you. I should also state that I previously may have been too prideful to look into something like that in more depth, but I'm increasingly concluding that viewpoint is silly.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Sure, I have lots of savings. But I also have children who will want to attend college, a mortgage, a lovely wife who is pursuing her non-mercenary interests and whole host of other reasons that make it fiscally possible yet not preferable
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by exogeny 9y ago
Good question. Different risk tolerance than before; wife, kids, mortgage.
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Ask HN: How do you get over the executive wall?
23 points by exogeny 9y ago|28 comments
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by exogeny 9y ago
It was marginally worth it for my company, albeit it was free and it was..seven years ago now. I met at least two very important people while there, one of which ended up investing into our seed round and the other who ended up introducing
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by exogeny 9y ago
He blocked me on Twitter, which I'm particularly proud of. And in addition to all of this, he's also promoting a (likely) scam ICO involving Paris Hilton. Good times!
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by exogeny 9y ago
Author has clearly never been to Pittsburgh's airport.
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by exogeny 9y ago
That's only true under the supposition that the authorities are of a sufficient expertise to be able to demonstrably prove that fraud. Surely you'd agree that ICOs are a somewhat new thing, yes? And surely you'd also agree th
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by exogeny 9y ago
I find it immensely telling that this point is the only one you've addressed so far in this thread. Nothing about how your CS sucks, the flawed business model, or the sexist comments..
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by exogeny 9y ago
Time to listen to mods by Jester/Sanity and Uncle Tom for a few hours!
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by exogeny 9y ago
Please don't do this. I probably receive about 150-200 cold emails a day from various sales reps and I generally despise them all. It should cost like, $0.10 to send an email to someone who isn't two-way authorized with you to dis
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by exogeny 9y ago
I'm not trying to flippant, I really don't know: how much of this specific case is caused by our completely byzantine and backwards health care system? Or is this more of a case of terrible people, well, being terrible? I would wa
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by exogeny 9y ago
I literally died laughing when I read it.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Come on, guys. You all are smart enough to read between the lines. Benchmark is desperate to get out. Why do you think that is? Do you think they'd be all hands on deck trying to get out of a rocket ship investment? Of course not. Uber
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by exogeny 9y ago
I could counter that you need to get over your own bias, which is the implication that a CEO is going to be successful or is suitable for the role simply because he went to Harvard.
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by exogeny 9y ago
>Plenty of people understand Bitcoin. Go read the whitepaper. Plenty of people on HN. Maybe. And that's about it. Mainstream acceptance is far, far away, and having a condescending attitudes towards those who struggle with the conce
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by exogeny 9y ago
Cool story, but I don't really love the recent surge I've seen on here of people submitting their own blog posts. (And, as it were, literally every single one of this dude's submissions are posts from his blog.) This shouldn&

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