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by jdross 11y ago
Hey, I'm JD, cofounder at Opendoor. The biggest difference is price. Those companies offer 65 to 80 cents on the dollar for homes. We offer full market value, and take fees that are comparable to a traditional transaction when you cons
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by jdross 11y ago
Twitter is a product that magnifies and spreads outrage better than any other platform, so it's not surprising that the most effective politicians use it to do just that. If Medium can become effective for spreading more nuanced or pos
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by jdross 11y ago
[I'm a founder of a company on the list, and know the creator Chris as a result.] He's a student, and has been interviewing a broad swath of VCs, students, and founders to create this list for the past few years. As far as I know,
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by jdross 11y ago
Only once you exercise those vested options, which would presumably not be until after IPO
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Fairchild Semiconductor Acquired for $2B(bizjournals.com)
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by jdross 11y ago
Square's fraud loss from their prospectus is 0.1%, which compares favorably to industry based on this Economist article: http://www.economist.com/node/21554743
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by jdross 11y ago
“About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” Elon Musk, 2010 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/sorkin-elon-musk-of-p... There are many other sources, and later interviews where he discusses this time of h
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by jdross 11y ago
Debunked many many times. Michael Luca at HBS is one such study. Sales at Yelp has no ability to influence reviews, and Yelp employees are not allowed to even write reviews anymore. http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/12&
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by jdross 11y ago
As a counterpoint, 85% of the gains were found in neighboring counties without the program. Teenage birth rates are plummeting everywhere. Questionable source, but data and linked study appear correct: http://www.nationalreview.c
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Modernize Design Tools with Adaptive Layouts(medium.com)
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What value-creating winners do all day(welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com)
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by jdross 12y ago
A few weeks ago around 100 people spontaneously met in Alamo Square park in SF. Someone brought hundreds of roses to give out to everyone else in the park. Super cool. TWS is a great crew of people, and Ankit's a great community leader
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by jdross 12y ago
Opendoor (San Francisco, CA) Sell your home in under a minute. Buy one without an agent whenever you want. We're making residential real estate liquid. DATA SCIENCE - Build our industry-leading predictive home valuations using millions
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by jdross 12y ago
Do you use Venmo? Anecdotally, I've seen minimal overlap between users of Square Cash and Venmo (excluding Square employees).
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by jdross 12y ago
They don't want to be a brand for the wealthy. They want to be known and perceived as a utility for everyone. So if anything, this helps fix the brand issues they have. I spend north of $300 per month on uber, and I'm selling my c
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by jdross 12y ago
Founder here. While facilitating the transaction is definitely a compelling product offering and would be very fun to build, it's by no means necessary to make the selling process dramatically better. The crux of our business is pretty
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by jdross 13y ago
Another option is to rent with an option to purchase. If they want $5000, you can say, "I'll give you $100 in year 1, $1000 in year 2, and purchase it for $10,000 in year 3" If the business is successful, $10,000 hopefully wi
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by jdross 13y ago
One of the best parts of working with ember since 1.0 has been the way you can break apart code into components and easily drop and extend them in the application as needed. The consistent declarative API is really nice. I hope there are mo
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by jdross 13y ago
Hackers solve problems. Hacks defer them. That said, I really like their sentiment; our company is filled with shirts and signs that say "Build" as a contrast to "Hack," because some things are actually important to do r
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by jdross 13y ago
From what I can tell, and what I've heard from friends of the company, they shut down Cue the product, not the company. The team is likely working on a new product.
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by jdross 14y ago
There's a whole lot we don't discuss on the website, which is focused towards current target customers of the tool we've built vs. our broader goals to bring transparency to the financial world. First we've built a (we've been told) very po
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by jdross 14y ago
Not to be too self-promotional, but this is literally the problem we're solving at Addepar. 15 years ago the power shifted from banks to hedge funds, and then in 2008 it started shifting to investors. But they still don't have the tools to
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by jdross 14y ago
We're waiting on the lottery for now, and have our legal team and friends thinking about what to do otherwise. We're a relatively small company (~75) company, so it's quite disruptive.
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by jdross 14y ago
It's insane. I have a coworker who is an unbelievably talented and respected developer both at my company and in the open source community. He has been working on a student visa after he graduated from an Ivy League school in computer scien
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by jdross 14y ago
"if you use something like Ember (which we didn’t), it’s even worse as all applications using it practically look the same (many people choose using Twitter’s Bootstrap library, for example)" wat? How does a choice of frontend framework lik
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by jdross 14y ago
It's an issue for Mac OS X for people who have invisible scrollbars enabled. Issue is being worked on, thanks for sharing!
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Embed HTML5 video into iPhone 4+ emails(problm.com)
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by jdross 15y ago
Awesome company, amazing people, and an inspiring vision. Very worth talking to; CEO Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, nearly every engineer is "the best out there" in their area of expertise, and the work environment is the best I've ever
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by jdross 16y ago
Works really nicely, and great interface. Keep iterating, I'll test it with my friends for you