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by hunter23 8y ago
The question is where do people in their 20-40s live and also how fast is housing prices growing in those areas. Yes you might live in an area that has houses below 300K but if incomes are low and the annualized growth of house prices is 2-
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by hunter23 8y ago
Is that true? Housing costs are skyrocketing in almost every major city with job growth.
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by hunter23 8y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted - SFgate recently published an article talking about Yimby members yelling over minority groups and those minority groups basically called Yimby a bunch of "affluent white tech workers&quot
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by hunter23 8y ago
Because they don't have low income leaders in their organization and they've been dismissive of minority concerns. See: http://www.sfexaminer.com/sb-827-rallies-end-yimbys-shouting... While I support the Yimby app
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by hunter23 8y ago
How do you know it's a significant difference if you haven't measured it correctly?
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by hunter23 8y ago
Can you name and shame the congressmen that ignore you? Or can you make a tip to one of the newspapers? Given the facebook privacy news saga this might get picked up.
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by hunter23 8y ago
2% monthly churn is not low. That annualizes to ~25% which is significant. The cost per acquisition of getting a new customer is actually quite high so their churn numbers definitely hurt them.
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by hunter23 8y ago
The data on staff engineer salaries at Google seems very off. The total comp for staff is $580K with a breakdown of total comp with being a 200K base, a 200K bonus, and 172K of stock. I would be surprised if the average staff engineer gets
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by hunter23 8y ago
It's very hard to value most companies that are at this stage on net profit because most of them are just breaking profitablity (so their net profit will be 0). Basically if you valued companies on net profit you would never acquired a
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by hunter23 8y ago
Why does no one get that it takes lots of headcount to do ads and sales? According to another HN commenter they were pulling $170m in revenue and growing at a 30% rate. They had job listing ads from literally all the major companies and you
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by hunter23 8y ago
where did you get the 7x revenue? I don't see that line in the article?
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by hunter23 8y ago
Another HN commenter mentioned their sales numbers at $170M and growing at 30% annually. Why do you think a $1.2B price is high? it seems pretty reasonable for me. Buying at 7x total sales with a 30% growth rate seems like a normal purchase
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by hunter23 8y ago
According to another HN commenter, they were making over $170m in revenue and were growing 30% year on year. A 7x multiple on sales does not seem that weird for a price. it is way more reasonable than 90% of the unicorns startups we see now
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by hunter23 8y ago
Sorry can't recommend any books. The main reason US healthcare is a mess is because we have structured it to be a free market system when it lacks the key characteristics for a free market to work. Free markets work really well in some
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by hunter23 8y ago
I think most people 60 years ago would have not considered the workplace a "environment toxic for creating trusting friendships". In fact, most people met their future spouse from their neighborhood or workplace when they analyzed
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by hunter23 8y ago
You are neglecting inflation. There was no way this secretary was saving $5000 a year 75 years ago - her yearly salary was mostly likely around that amount.
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by hunter23 8y ago
Totally agree. All the problems I listed are quite hard and will monetize slowly. Sales are really long; the company I am a part of had an all star founding team with a history of exits so they gots lot of funding which helped give them a c
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by hunter23 8y ago
Sorry I don't have time for a call but happy to give my perspective on HN if you have any questions.
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by hunter23 8y ago
Doctor reviews are not correlated to patient outcomes. There are tons of excellent doctors with terrible bedside manner that have bad reviews and incompetent doctors with excellent bedside manner who get great reviews. Quality metrics shoul
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by hunter23 8y ago
I work in health tech. Here are some problems: * Helping patients select the right doctor. Currently most people use Yelp or through referrals. The problem is that Yelp has little correlation to quality of care. It's very difficult for
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by hunter23 8y ago
Are there any differences in criteria for REMOTE and on site engineers? How many remote engineers are currently on the team?
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by hunter23 8y ago
Your situation sucks but this might make you laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdS3tjEIqUA
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by hunter23 8y ago
In a similar way, most Indian restaurants have Bangladeshi or Nepali cooks.
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by hunter23 8y ago
Just to be clear I was responding to the OP's statement "One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns". This is incorrect - a nation regularly forms laws on
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by hunter23 8y ago
I think it's actually quite common for a country to dictate what it's citizens and companies can do outside of its borders. For example, * A US company can be prosecuted on corruption charges if it bribes an official out of its bo
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by hunter23 8y ago
Yes and it's not like their 2nd iteration of Dodgeball (Foursquare) was that successful. They've pivoted to business analytics, but I doubt their investors are that happy.
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by hunter23 8y ago
A lot of regulators in the US are thinking about requiring dockerless systems to coordinate with them now. Many cities don't want the littering issue.
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by hunter23 8y ago
Yes, but is the US the area where the product will have the most revolutionary impact? In my view, I would target high density cities like Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Delhi, Paris, etc. Europe and Asia seem like the most important markets
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by hunter23 9y ago
While they have been upfront about affiliate marketing, they haven't been upfront that a product that is shortlisted in their guides would be downgraded if it didn't have an affiliate program. Essentially no one would assume that
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by hunter23 9y ago
Yes, and I love that California requires that the operator report on dis-engagements. It gives us some measure of how good the cars are performing (obviously not a great measure). The fact that the industry leader (Waymo) is fine with Calif

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