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by ponker 6y ago
If a marketing department is just told to reduce spend by 90% they will still be running some of their highest-ROI campaigns on Google and Facebook. Completely pausing Facebook means it's about something more than just budget cuts, bec
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by ponker 6y ago
Huh, a $200m convertible note. Never heard of such a thing.
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by ponker 6y ago
The founders may not get anything depending on cash remaining and liquidation preferences. The company has raised ~$800m.
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by ponker 6y ago
There are two criticisms here: one is that Quora is a bad business, and only operates because its CEO funds it, and second is that it is a bad source of information. The first is definitely an unanswered question at this point: revenue is l
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by ponker 6y ago
Cool to see that the same open source dynamics that make it possible for three engineers to ship a great web app in 3 months (Linux, Node, React, etc) also have made it much easier for people like your brother to use off the shelf tooling l
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by ponker 6y ago
But I think the effect is pronounced in agriculture because of the stereotype that rural = Trump voter = poor moron. I think that few people in SV have a true grasp of the amount of intelligence, electrical and mechanical domain knowledge,
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by ponker 6y ago
There’s a company called RL Polk that Hoovers up basically everything you could imagine about car sales and resells that information for very high prices. Don’t know where they get their data but they have a row of data for each car sold.
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by ponker 6y ago
fucking hell
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by ponker 6y ago
Most tech companies get to tens of billions in valuation before they even think about government relations.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Machiavellian treachery needed to raise money like this is probably why the few big successes that are run by non-sociopaths are far more likely to be bootstrapped. While pitching investors has a lot in common with pitching customers, p
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by ponker 6y ago
Well you're right on all counts. The marketing was tacky, desperate, and effective, as much of "growth hacking" is.
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by ponker 6y ago
Life-recording video is much more compressible than Dashcam.
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by ponker 6y ago
That entire show is just a 5% exaggeration of the real Silicon Valley.
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by ponker 6y ago
That, frankly, is downright pleasant compared to counterfeit food.
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by ponker 6y ago
You can create the company from abroad. There’s no real additional process for creating a company from abroad. The banking setup is the only thing that takes longer.
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by ponker 6y ago
And Page isn’t an immigrant.
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by ponker 6y ago
You are typically an employee of the startup that you create.
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by ponker 6y ago
What’s the solution for the safety problem of scooters, where a small obstacle can send the rider flying forwards into a broken jaw?
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s not too early for Facebook, it’s too early for startups. Facebook can burn half a billion a year for 10 years and then when the market is ready, be in the leading position and be able to buy up all the promising startups in the space.
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by ponker 6y ago
> from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals That point of view is just factually incorrect. It’s like thinking that the way to ge
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by ponker 6y ago
Something is pathologically broken for you. Don’t know whether it’s client side like a corrupted browser or service side like a malformed attachment that is causing Gmail to thrash. Chances of course are that the problem is on your end.
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by ponker 6y ago
Market share and attractiveness aren’t necessarily related. A Kia isn’t as attractive to its target customer as a Mercedes but outsells it because of price.
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by ponker 6y ago
What I think is interesting is how much worse the conversation experience is today vs. during the days of circuit-switched landline phones. There was no perceptible difference between a live conversation and one by phone between New York an
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by ponker 6y ago
It exists, it's called a Facebook Portal. It's an outstanding piece of hardware and has been an absolute blessing for our elderly relatives in this pandemic. Of course, you are letting Facebook into your living room, which does gi
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by ponker 6y ago
I'm a homebody but great fruit I will travel for. The absolute best fruit is ripened on the plant to the point of being so soft that it would be destroyed if handled. I drive hours to various wild blackberry bushes around Northern Cali
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by ponker 6y ago
I just looked up this company and... is the domain parked or something?
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by ponker 6y ago
Oof... why am I not surprised that IBM and Yahoo were the companies evaluating their workers by "time spent on VPN." Measuring the productivity of software engineers is not easy. But it is as important to maintaining a high perfor
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by ponker 6y ago
More fair would be to allow people to choose to remain remote, but at a salary deduction, and give that salary to the people who are required to be on-site.
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by ponker 6y ago
People get used to things. I feel the same way about picking up an Android. People who live in New York and people who live in Nome probably would find the other’s lifestyle frustrating and opaque.
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by ponker 6y ago
For “The Mooch” it’s probably an addiction to attention that’s driving his Cameo participation.

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