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by majani 10y ago
Facebook was a rocketship of organic growth, which gave Zuck tons of leverage with investors. He was also advised on retaining control by experienced guys like Sean Parker. Him moving to Silicon Valley also helped, because it has the most f
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by majani 10y ago
Yes, in 3rd world countries, Uber is an improvement of several orders of magnitude over traditional cabbies and cab companies. Even moreso for tourists. For this reason I think they'll hold steady in these regions even if there is a bi
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by majani 10y ago
self driving cars will bring Uber into the black, but it'll make competing with them so much easier, since signing up self-driving fleets will be way easier than signing up individual drivers.
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by majani 10y ago
China was the ultimate test of your theory and Uber didn't pass
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by majani 10y ago
well are you going to suggest a better solution?
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by majani 10y ago
Let's not go too far in the other direction though. I live in Kenya and there are certainly some horrific aspects about living here. However, if you make at least a living wage and learn the rules of engagement you can live quite a bal
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by majani 10y ago
Better and easier to do a Google News search for the link itself. If the link doesn't show up in news search, it can be considered a less credible source. If the link shows up, it'll be accompanied by follow up sources
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by majani 10y ago
Key distinction: that feed must have an algorithm controlling it's order so as to maximize the profit.
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by majani 10y ago
On the contrary, it could be a quick initial test with a plan to flesh it out if the response is good.
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by majani 10y ago
That's why they're avoiding the public markets. Their valuations will take a pounding once they're put up for everyone to scrutinize
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by majani 10y ago
This is all following an eerily similar script to kozmo.
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by majani 10y ago
Whenever labels do this, they offer egregious terms that render the business unsustainable.
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by majani 10y ago
Also cars have an element of freedom to them. Go anywhere, anytime. They also feed off the laziness of most adults.
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by majani 10y ago
Unfortunately, public transit is way less profitable than selling cars to people, so self driving public transit doesn't seem like the top priority, despite having the best net benefit for society
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by majani 10y ago
That's why studies that fail to mention the president's mother's involvement miss out on a lot of nuances. A deeper look: who is in charge of official animal census in Kenya? The Kenya Wildlife Service, a government agency. T
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by majani 10y ago
Well, he won the previous election while on trial for crimes against humanity[1](murder of 3000 Kenyans, displacement of 300,000 others), so he's gonna be pretty hard to beat next year since the International Criminal Court dropped the
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by majani 10y ago
The thoughtful solutions on this forum remind me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/ I am Kenyan. A conveniently left out truth when discussing the poaching menace here is that the big bad poacher in the story is non o
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by majani 10y ago
Don't know why this is on HN, but as a Kenyan I'll say this: the Kenyan elephant situation is absolutely hopeless. It has been well documented since the 70s that the head honcho in poaching was the then president's wife, and
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by majani 10y ago
Bad idea. I think the social networks who's main purpose is to feed into people's vanity will not stand the test of time since they're not solving a real problem and are merely novelties.
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by majani 10y ago
I don't know whether it falls into sunken cost fallacy, but yes, VCs will go to great lengths to tank deals that don't fall within their expectation of return. What's worse they usually succeed in either spoiling the deal, or
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by majani 10y ago
Unfortunately it's become a blind mantra for many people that "violence is never the answer." We like to think ourselves as elevated beings, but there are many situations where primal shows of dominance through strength and a
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by majani 10y ago
Comic book movies in general are fast reaching the breaking point, at least with reviewers. But I'm sure the studios are well aware of this and will maximise for as long as their moment lasts
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by majani 10y ago
You likely won't even get to meet him and explain since he's thrown your "shitty" application in the bin
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by majani 10y ago
Not to mention he is in education - a universally moral category. This is startup nirvana if I ever saw it. I'm sure there are famous billionaires who would trade places with him if they could
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Don't Ride It Over the Top(exits.com)
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by majani 10y ago
Clever? No credible investor would put any weight in what a rival has to say about valuation
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by majani 10y ago
What about self driving public transit?;)
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by majani 10y ago
I feel a more accurate way to put it would be that Twitter the $11b, 4,000 employee juggernaut is fucked, but Twitter the niche, 100 employee, 100 million dollar site for news junkies still has a chance
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by majani 10y ago
There is evidence from past social networks that if you don't hit critical mass of mainstream user adoption, and you've got these lofty valuations, the company is in for a really bad time
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by majani 10y ago
It's never made a profit.

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