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by jusben1369 11y ago
Good stuff! I would say that Apple is/was a personal computer company. The form factor changed to mobile but the mission still seems largely the same.
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I would strongly disagree. Tesla was never really about being a car company.
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Everything about Tesla has been around helping/saving the environment by accelerating the adoption of battery driven cars vs ICE. Nothing about self driving cars says they have to be electric. In fact, if the first fully self driving c
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One of the things I find fascinating, and that Tesla has to grapple with at some point with real ramifications, is: are they a self driving car company that just happens to be an electric car company? Or the other way around? I would argue
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by jusben1369 11y ago
YC is still YC. Investor's come to YC to win, and win big. They want to see companies shooting for the moon, not worried about profitability 12 weeks in.
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The end of social commerce 1.0(blog.spreedly.com)
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Number of overall tweets dropping dramatically(businessinsider.com)
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```Opposing this order is not something we take lightly. We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the U.S. government. We are challenging the FBI’s demands with the deepest respect for American democracy and a
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I think, as a society, it boils down to this: "And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no way to guarantee such control." Can a private, for profit, company deny the will of an elect
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Blame the market for changing. Seriously, it's that simple. "Market now values x over y and we're doing the smart thing and adjusting our strategy....."
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Yes. You can't deploy the same ad on FB and Twitter and Pinterest the way you can do a TV spot and deploy it on any channel large or small.
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I think "past" is a bit of a cop out. It has to be current and in the moment to be applicable.
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There are a lot of reasons why. Just one example is advertisers. The largest advertisers need to work with properties at a certain scale. TV has that. Google has that. Facebook now has that because it grew to be huge. Pinterest doesn't
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Well the news media write about a lot of things but that's different to being newsworthy. Readers decide that. It's why Yahoo's homepage might have a story about a wounded war veteran returning home next to one of Kim and Kay
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by jusben1369 11y ago
But let's say you were asked to accept an award on behalf of your company from a group that had a troubled history of anti-semitic sentiment and it was thought that, amongst this group, there were still large swaths of members who held
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I think because the network effect is a fundamental foundation of social networks. Think of all the SN's that have come and gone. It appears you can't really remain static with a non/slow growing user base. Eventually, someth
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I think the confusion here is you've assumed I meant that Twitter needs to become more like FB from a content perspective. I mean from a usability perspective. My father would like to follow along with current affairs/breaking new
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by jusben1369 11y ago
No argument there.
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Twitter is a poster child for why diversity is key. Not racial, but socioeconomic. Twitter is very popular with people who have reached a certain threshold of technical competence. After that though it falls away quickly. They needed to rea
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Why would you believe that? They have great revenue. They're just not adding enough new users.
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The role of CTO varies so greatly from company to compan . Some are hands on making major decisions. Others are almost academic; looking 18+ months out and responsible for understanding big trends et . Not sure which is the case here. Does
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Oh bravo!
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by jusben1369 11y ago
This is kind of like Uber firing Travis with a "we operate in a highly regulatory space. Compliance is our oxygen and so Travis, who has constantly flouted regulations, is gone"
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Heroin and FB seems like a super tough stretch, at least for me.
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It's interesting you mention Canada. Canada, like Australia, had a wonderful 10 - 15 years selling huge quantities of natural resources to China. Weaker societies, like Brazil, have basically gone off the edge of a financial cliff with
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Wait, heroin isn't popular the way FB is. There aren't a billion heroin users (or whatever) on the planet. _For those people who use heroin_ it might be very popular but by far the majority of people are deciding not to use it. Un
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Yes I think it would fail if you tried to get too literal. But the original thread was the "I wonder how much more productive our lives would or would not be without FB" It was in that broader context that I made my comment.
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by jusben1369 11y ago
All arguments for and against FB can pretty much be applied to the internet overall. Given the undeniable popularity and usage of FB I think it's pretty clear it's been a net positive on society. (I'm fine with rebuttals; jus
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I think it's 3 things (I have teenagers about to get permits) 1) Parents don't let their kids drive or walk anywhere due to safety concerns (real or unfounded) So kids have built in chauffeurs and thus a lot less motivation to dri
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QE works well. It's just limited in how much impact it can have because it's monetary policy. Fiscal policy is the other half of the equation and one that is much more politically charged. Bernanke did what he could with the tools

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