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by flylib 10y ago
the facts on the ground don't support your theory, Reid is one of the people helping fund OpenAI (Sam is one of the founders) more that he is pissed that the YC Continuity fund is starting to compete with him on deals at Greylock which
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Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny(newyorker.com)
487 points by flylib 10y ago|302 comments
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by flylib 10y ago
we will see a few more acquisitions play out in this space over the next year or so but I do believe Google will have a hard time acquiring the companies in the space as tons of people are jumping ship and some are even starting their own s
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by flylib 10y ago
they aren't really competitors, comma.ai offers level 2 autonomous retrofitting for certain cars and Cruise pivoted from initially a similar offering to comma.ai at a higher price point to a level 4 system that uses lidar and is sold t
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by flylib 10y ago
Otto sold for 680 million to Uber in August 2016, the company started in 2015, that's atleast one company that was willing to sell and I figure most of them would, they all have no end game other then being acquired for the most part
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by flylib 10y ago
there is 15+ self driving startups at the moment, GM has prolly seen all of them and went with Cruise
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by flylib 10y ago
they abandoned that retrofitting hardware a while ago too, they only did that for a few months before working on a more full stack solution that is level 4 that would require a partnership with a car company to install their product which t
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by flylib 10y ago
one thought floating around that he got a major scoop on the apple car (He was verge's car editor) and Apple are paying him to keep silent, he may not have any actual role at Apple but is on the payroll, not sure what the verge was tol
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by flylib 10y ago
Thiel invests all over the world and makes plenty of investments in European companies and US companies not in those markets, reporter trying to make a non story into something
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by flylib 10y ago
no you won't, the VC doesn't report to a random reporter and numbers change all the time (WhatsApp last public valuation was of 1.5 billion (Sequoia held them at this position) and it sold for 19 billion)
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by flylib 10y ago
except Uber already has a partnership with Volvo http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/18/12541672/uber-volvo-partne... Investment from Toyota https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/ub
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by flylib 10y ago
this is playing right into Uber's hand's, part of their fundraising strategy was to scare investors from putting more money into Lyft and it may be finally paying off. Now Lyft won't be in a position of leverage when they hav
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by flylib 10y ago
this is bad news for Lyft who Didi basically just abandoned after partnering with them and were hoping that Uber would self implode by overspending in China, Uber has got the US market on lock https://techcrunch.com/2016&#x2
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by flylib 10y ago
Here is tesla's comment on it, but it seems like they will be fully in control of the fleet/app software and could potentially favor their own cars in cities where they are running their own fleets over your own cars you have adde
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by flylib 10y ago
good luck finding any competitor willing to sell you a small fleet of them and let you launch a competing service, not only that they are the ones in control so if you launch a competing service with them, they could disable your cars. Uber
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by flylib 10y ago
would be careful to say "near-parity", google is still ahead of everyone in level 4 autonomous cars at the moment, not only that the gap may be larger then the other car companies lead you to believe.
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by flylib 10y ago
Google Ventures gave them no money, Google the company invested in them with Sundar Pichai (Google CEO) taking a board seat at the company
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by flylib 10y ago
the 77 million round was done in the past (it might of been over multiple rounds grouped up into one number with part of the amount being more recent) some of the same backers in the round announced "officially" today are also men
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by flylib 10y ago
the company started back in 2012 and raised most of that money then, the market probably looked more attractive at that point to VC's (Dropbox valuation was shooting up) but they took awhile to release anything as it's now 2016. W
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by flylib 10y ago
they already have precedent for buying illegally obtained footage and nothing happened to them http://pagesix.com/2014/05/15/employee-who-leaked-solange-ja... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine
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by flylib 10y ago
I think people on HN are underestimating the tabloid market and previous prices paid for photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_celebri... , TMZ regularly pays out 5k for photos/videos, selling
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by flylib 11y ago
any SaaS company suffers the potential chance of a rogue employee, certain google employees could snoop around people's emails if they wanted, etc.
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Amazon sues longtime exec over new job at Target(geekwire.com)
1 points by flylib 11y ago|0 comments
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by flylib 11y ago
a potential theory is he paid her the money to not tell his wife/kids who knew nothing of the affair, obviously extremely ill advised but plausible
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by flylib 11y ago
Giphy would have to exit for around 80 million for all investors to get their money back, seems unlikely they would be able to get that much for an acquihire even half of that amount especially if they are forced into a position where they
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by flylib 11y ago
technically Sacks could be under the hook also for non-compliance...
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by flylib 11y ago
the WSJ agreed "But what the former chief operating officer didn’t acknowledge is that for a long period of time he and Mr. Conrad worked closely together, sitting next to each other at work and meeting regularly for dinner, according
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by flylib 11y ago
as a counter point Zenefits already won against the state of Utah when they tried banning them so yes people have already stood up to defend them http://fortune.com/2015/04/13/zenefits-utah-ban-insurance/
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by flylib 11y ago
no surprise they jumped on the first chance they could to get rid of Conrad
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by flylib 11y ago
VC funding announced in first week of 2016 is significantly more then first week of 2015 as a counter argument

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