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Exactly. Hopefully, it can help reduce the cost of goods and highway road safety. There’s going to be a lot of edge cases in Manhattan traffic.
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If those vendors had their own cloud offering, it would be hosted underneath with GCloud/AWS/Azure in reality. The CAPEX needed to roll your own is way too high when compared to Google/Amazon/Microsoft's budget. Eve
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Aren’t some of the frontier tech investments to also understand the space, where the tech is currently at, and what team members to back or grab when the space is ready? To me, it would make sense for Sequoia to allocate some capital to the
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Zero is an under statement, but relative to the $4B Ford spends for example, Tesla's $70M advertising costs are tiny. You could also say that about the number of cars Tesla has sold too, but auto companies typically have an incredibly
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I'd be skeptical about this. The extreme/rare event is Tesla got hundreds of thousands of people to put a down payment on a car with zero marketing costs. Unfortunately, Solar-city and taking on convertible debt vs. equity have sh
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Percentiles can be misleading if the data follows a Poisson distribution, especially if the lambda coefficient is closer to 1. Latencies I would imagine, would typically be Poisson due to arrival time.
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Another issue is the local public transportation in most US cities isn’t adequate so travelers want to transport their vehicle with them. Although, rideshare services help alleviate this issue.
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I don’t think it’s wrong, I just think it usually takes criticism plus an economic incentive. Hybrid cars didn’t have adoption until oil prices rose substantially. Airlines also adopted Boeing’s Dreamliner, which was made with lighter mater
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I completely agree with your assessment, but I find it troubling that the government has incentivized the idea that “homes are an investment that should always go up.” While less so in California, municipalities typically have a short-term
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A small float makes a lot of sense now. With much of the market now investing in a quasi passive fashion, or systematically, these strategies will not buy an IPO. In fact, many of these strategies require several reporting cycles.
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Now we have the commoditization of ad copy and ad experiments. It seems like it will now be fairly easy to piece together another company's Facebook marketing and ad campaigns.
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I think employers and graduate schools have raised the stakes around GPA to be too high. Here's a thought experiment, should employers just punish prospective hires who have above a 3.9 GPA without demonstrating exceptionally difficult
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These are all good points. Also, I think another point often missed in the discussion around social signaling is that certain schools create a higher opportunity for a reference check. Upon reviewing a candidate early in her career, if she
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Purdue’s Sackler Family Accused of Fraud in Transfers of Opioid Profits(wsj.com)
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The card network handles this I believe. I've never worked in payments, but I have spent some time analyzing the space for investments. As far as my knowledge with regards to online payments, the merchant gateway talks with the merchan
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The circumstance isn't exclusive to just people wanting to move to a new city. Rent control increases moving friction, which could be due to changing life events such as having kids, being an empty nester, or wanting to move to a more
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Adyen is more enterprise focused, right? What would you say Adyen's biggest advantages are over Stripe and PayPal?
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I believe the rely on the underlying network of Mastercard, Visa and Amex. Fiserv is more on the ACH side.
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In the current circumstance, one argument is that the Fed overreacted in raising short-term rates, making those rates artificially high. I suppose there is some support for this without looking too deeply into it as the Fed now is unwinding
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In my mind, that is a hard question to assess. Hopefully, more tools will exist for automating data cleaning and ETL such as handling third-party data schemas and integrations, data errors, and so forth. I don't this means data science
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Wow, that’s crazy. As long as you have auto insurance and a clean driving record, it doesn’t make logical sense to reprimand your license as it could cause a cash flow problem if you can’t commute to work, or have to take a worse job potent
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I think they are trying to with the Marcus brand. Once Goldman became a bank holding company, it made it hard for them to operate a large prop trading unit and other more alternative areas. I think Goldman felt that since it had to operate
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Apple is using Mastercard as the rails, Goldman as the issuer, and another company is the processor. Therefore, it isn't really doing any of the payment processing, but it is more similar to a Nordstrom's or Saks' card. I thi
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I once took it upon myself to do an investigation after a terrible experience. Within 15 minutes I found that: 1. The building had numerous building code violations per NYC 2. The building owner had links to the Russian mob written up in Ny
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My general feeling is that the smoother the story, the more it is fake. If someone comes off exacerbated, blending the chronologically and details of the story, it is most likely true; extreme situations lead to extreme behavior. Now, when
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Qualtrics did too, but SAP bought it literally right before it IPO’d.
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Well, there’s a fair amount of startups working on mental health, and this illustrates there is a real human problem to solve versus another food delivery app. Also, maybe someone who is data driven and motivated could try to more deeply an
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The only issue with that is you sometimes develop duplication across siloes. Instead of one team building the framework/analytics engine, you have a bunch different experimental environments, datasets, etc.
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It is an interesting viewpoint. One of the advantages of Twitter is that people can weight, or Twitter itself can weight who is posting and sharing that information. For instance, if Fred Wilson writes something about startups or VC, I gene
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Interesting. Care to elaborate?

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