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by fizzledbits 9y ago
I was commenting on their business model. I don’t know if the person you described would have anything to worry about, apart from their own moral feeling about the company in general. I won’t use them, because I dislike the entire premise.
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by fizzledbits 9y ago
Robinhood gets their revenue from margin interest lending to people who can't afford to invest but do it anyways. And also from selling the trading data to high frequency traders to front-run the Robinhood traders. The top guys at Robi
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by fizzledbits 9y ago
If you haven’t already heard of him, Peter Garrison’s Technicalities column in Flying Magazine is fascinating and always beautifully written. This is one of the planes he designed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garris
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by fizzledbits 9y ago
edit: In the contrived scenario you referenced, I agree that the internal analysis wouldn't begin and end at simply "put the users first!" :P But since the vast majority of activity at Google isn't in that critical path
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by fizzledbits 9y ago
The ad business funds the majority of what they do, but that doesn't mean everything or even most of what Googlers are doing day to day is tied to ads in some meaningful additional way or that every product can be viewed through that l
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by fizzledbits 9y ago
At any large company like Google (where I worked for 4 years), if you find a way to leverage a vast existing business (i.e. ads) in what you are offering, then that's naturally an advantage for you. Doing so isn't required to surv
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by fizzledbits 9y ago
CEO of the startup I worked at had a child early in the process, and it was indeed incredibly hard for them individuallly and strained the marriage. After a few years of struggle, the startup was acquired, which was followed by a few years