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by joewadcan 6y ago
The difference is that people are starting to believe them now and extrapolating in a future where there's fewer other investment alternatives with high potential gains.
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by joewadcan 6y ago
Tesla themselves are telling that story: 1. The world largest utility for electricity (combining Powerwalls + Solar) 2. The most profitable transportation company (personal automobiles, semi-trucks, and autonomy)
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a16z invests in Material Security(a16z.com)
2 points by joewadcan 6y ago|0 comments
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by joewadcan 6y ago
> I'm sick of the hypocrisy of people saying "Black people aren't more likely/less likely to x, it's their education/family/etc. that affects them" ... and then immediately turning around and givin
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by joewadcan 7y ago
> often the unvested options in the acquired company are converted into unvested options in the acquiring company on the same schedule Yup, and I'd clarify that the new options aren't 1:1, but calculated based on some price-per
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Interview for Time Management(joe.wadcan.com)
1 points by joewadcan 7y ago|0 comments
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by joewadcan 7y ago
> This time around...there's actually NOT a lot of exuberance. I'd argue that you're scoping exuberance only to consumers. If you define exuberance a bit more broadly, there's lots of irrational behavior in corporate
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by joewadcan 7y ago
Yeah, I've got the same general feelings about PayPal as well. I'm hoping that GitHub and Stripe both evolve their offerings in the future to be more honest and easier to use platforms.
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by joewadcan 7y ago
We're using PayPal for a couple of reasons (named in the article). But the reality of an early stage (bootstrapped) startup means you get a crazy low credit limit, so when we paid upfront for our server hosting that got us close to the
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Donating 3% of revenues to open source, a six month review(blog.geteventbot.com)
49 points by joewadcan 7y ago|4 comments
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by joewadcan 7y ago
Fair point on profit vs growth. But the idea that a mid sized city's scooter permit was the sole reason for the acquisition still doesn't seem reasonable. Possible, just not reasonable
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by joewadcan 7y ago
Funny, but doubtful that's it even the majority of the reason for this acquisition. Do you really think there's $25M in profit by operating one of many scooter rental services in San Francisco? I'm sure the permit was a nic
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by joewadcan 7y ago
Erica did a great job building up Bitnami, so I'm pretty pumped to see her + Nat at the helm of GitHub.
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by joewadcan 7y ago
We've been using Full Calendar as part of our startup, and really really appreciate all the work Adam has put in. We honestly couldn't build some features if FC wasn't around - so thanks!
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by joewadcan 8y ago
We're using the ical standard to pull in events, though we've found so many instances of companies breaking RFC 5545, it's hard to call it a "standard". Happy to chat about how we built this feature, for those inter
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by joewadcan 8y ago
Hi Pia, we love Open Collective and are using it to donate to one of our sponsored projects. The platform is a great way to relieve a good deal of pain that OSS devs would have to endure in running a funded project. One of the hardest thing
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by joewadcan 8y ago
I very much agree - we put most of our donations on a recurring basis. Oddly, a few projects specifically asked for a one-off donation because they felt like a recurring donation would make them feel like they "owed us" something.
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by joewadcan 8y ago
> Taking that 3% and allocating towards your own developers contributing to OSS gives everyone more bang for the buck right? I see what you mean. However, as a two person company we think the impact from supporting those projects is a be
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by joewadcan 8y ago
That's a great idea! Hmm, I wonder what the Slack equivalent of glitter bombs are... emoji bombs?
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by joewadcan 8y ago
Aww thanks Alex! Appreciate the note and glad you checked out Eventbot
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by joewadcan 8y ago
At GitHub, we faced the same issue when ZenHub [1] came out with their chrome extension. While, Slack is well within their rights to _ask_ you not to modify their user experience, it's short sighted of them to do so. With ZenHub, we wo
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by joewadcan 8y ago
co-founder here - we'd love to hear your feedback! We built Eventbot because we think chat platforms like Slack are fundamentally replacing email and so calendars can be radically better in the new chat-first world. We've got a Fr
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Show HN: Eventbot – Group calendar for Slack teams(geteventbot.com)
3 points by joewadcan 8y ago|1 comments
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by joewadcan 9y ago
Super true. I wonder if this (more granular) decision making is so unique to circumstances like team, idea, and market... that folks can only give the more generic advice without steering someone down a wrong path.
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by joewadcan 9y ago
This is a great write up but misses how gov't regulation could actually force a winner-takes-all distribution. States (like CA and NV) have already started to draw up their own autonomous driving regulations and the DOT is planning to
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by joewadcan 9y ago
> Autonomous cars are going to kill people, lots of people. They are going to kill passengers, bicyclists, pedestrians etc. It has already happened and will continue. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla (and other autonomous driving pr
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GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API(github.com)
377 points by joewadcan 9y ago|152 comments
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GitHub's Giving Report(giving.github.com)
1 points by joewadcan 10y ago|0 comments
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Atlassian files for IPO(sec.gov)
490 points by joewadcan 11y ago|174 comments
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GitHub Announces Large File Storage(git-lfs.github.com)
25 points by joewadcan 12y ago|0 comments

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