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by exogeny 9y ago
In NYC here as well; I think AirBNB is a pox. It's a great and useful product, I can't dispute that. But the economic ramifications of it outweigh the benefits by a large margin. And when you add on the unregulated latent racism (
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by exogeny 9y ago
I don't really get the Herbalife defense in here. Here's what I know: The products are of dubious quality, and can be bought for much cheaper elsewhere. The majority of people who end up being distributors absorb a net loss, and g
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by exogeny 9y ago
They can't do that in just about every major city in the world, which is where they'd have to not only compete, but win in order to justify their valuation. Right now in NYC they're roughly equal with taxis during non-surge h
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by exogeny 9y ago
Two great products, sure. Businesses? They are horrendous. Great businesses don't lose like, thirty cents on every dollar they make.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Too bad they won't escape the same fate as Uber, which is likely bankruptcy due to it being impossible to subsidize losses forever. Uber has a non-zero chance at figuring out self-driving cars first and not only surviving, but being on
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by exogeny 9y ago
My BBS nostalgia is spiraling out of control right now. This is so rad.
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by exogeny 9y ago
This is my experience with them as well. Very positive.
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by exogeny 9y ago
There's a few VC firms (Correlation Ventures leaps to mind, as noted in the article) that invest solely on the basis of a quantitative model that looks at the various features of the business (market, founders, etc.) and then doing so
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by exogeny 9y ago
Dude, I love your newsletter. It is literally an immediate open, every time. It is my goal to get my sporadic thoughts on tech published at the bottom. That and the Quora digest are the only non-work emails I read.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Yeah, and at other companies, they're handled internally with respect and compassion. That's why you don't read about them in Medium posts where the employee repeatedly points to appalling failures within the organization.
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by exogeny 9y ago
He presided over a culture of widespread sexual harassment that has been echoed repeatedly by multiple employees and you don't really understand why he's being criticized? Cool story, bro.
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by exogeny 9y ago
I was prefacing it more in terms of the trickle-down effect; literally thousands of people have been hired into a culture that was mandated by Kalanick. (See PatrickAuld's post on this thread.) Just because he goes away doesn't me
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by exogeny 9y ago
Uber clearly has massive issue internally so far as culture; while it's not as large of a problem as the obvious economic and labor issues of having a non-automated fleet, it's giving up a wicked stink that is causing talented emp
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by exogeny 9y ago
Investors will always tell you that they want big multiples on their investment in order for their fund economics to work. They are right. They will also however concurrently never, ever be mad at someone for returning their money. (And in
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by exogeny 9y ago
Oh, there's plenty to learn. I just think that agnostic of the labor and regulatory issue he's describing, a much bigger problem was that we're inside of an incredibly niche, startup-focused community here on HN and the overw
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by exogeny 9y ago
Just because it's an unpleasant time in the founder's life doesn't mean that it's above criticism and tough discussion. Look, the dude raised tens of millions of dollars and failed. Those are facts. Simply lauding someon
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by exogeny 9y ago
I think the biggest problem here, above anything else, is my first reaction: "Who the hell is Homehero, and why should I care?" Also: LOL at "The 1099 independent contractor model, below, is very attractive as it removes exce
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by exogeny 9y ago
I know more than a few dudes who work on Wall Street, most of whom graduated EE or CS from Carnegie Mellon/MIT/Harvard. Most of them view it as a mercenary job, nothing more. They don't give a shit about finance itself, but t
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by exogeny 9y ago
As someone who did his undergrad at CMU - and loved it - it's great to see this. I studied Information Systems with a minor in Design, and it set me up for an awesome string of startup jobs where I could blend my various interests and
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by exogeny 9y ago
You don't get it, because he did a cool thing a decade ago, this is worth us talking about. Someone please wake me up when Kevin Rose decides to take a dump and someone else writes about it.
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by exogeny 9y ago
You're being intentionally obtuse. If you are the defacto head of a business unit which has an obvious failure multiple times over, you go. You're at fault. Full stop. If you don't understand this, you've either never wo
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by exogeny 9y ago
I'd be a lot more interested if Noah Glass came back, personally. Either way: so what? Twitter has huge endemic problems that someone who built the trash fire that was Jelly can fix.
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by exogeny 9y ago
As mentioned on TechCrunch, Greg Gopman (dude who wrote the incredibly tone-deaf anti-homeless piece that went viral a few years back) is named in the lawsuit. Shitheads gonna shit.
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by exogeny 9y ago
Blueshirt associates at Firstround, aka the Yale rowing team.
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by exogeny 9y ago
I bet he does, because Uber subsidizes over 50% of the ride. If they didn't, no one would take Uber. It's not difficult to know how that particular story is going to end.
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by exogeny 9y ago
So, let me get this straight: they expect to able to be a viable advertising outlet for brands, despite having no demographic targeting besides a rough guess at geolocation? Hey, cool. Good thing you're paying Google and Amazon about $
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From Burning Millions to Turning Profitable in 7 Months; How HotelTonight Did It(firstround.com)
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by exogeny 10y ago
LORD is available here: lord.nuklear.org
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by exogeny 10y ago
Pfft, iCE > ACiD any day of the week!
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by exogeny 10y ago
I spent an absurd amount of time modding my Renegade board, drawing ANSI, listening to the latest mods out of the demoscene and failing miserably at learning Assembly circa 1993-1996. And then IRC came along.. 412/724 scene, north of P

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