rabidonrails

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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Maybe you'd say it's worth the risk, but founders should be very careful about making transfers from accounts owned by their business to their personal accounts because this is literally the definition of embezzlement. I'd sp
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Congrats on the launch, definitely an interesting product and really interesting space. But...didn't you guys launch a while ago? Is there something specific you're launching now? >> The tech stack we use to build Lago (YC S
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
It's not so simple to shut off people's telephone numbers. Consider some customers might be using the service for health and safety reasons. Better to threaten and then follow through that take the liability hit of just shutting o
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Google to layoff 12,000 employees(wsj.com)
6 points by rabidonrails 4y ago|0 comments
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
True, but that's where the "Starting at" trick comes into play or don't have Pricing be a top level link on your landing page.
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Their pricing page is my ultimate pet peeve - a pricing page that shows no pricing.
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
That's a Buffet-ism
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Perhaps you're arguing that the leverage ratio I used as an example was extreme, but otherwise you are wrong that "no broker would force you to sell your own equity." If there's a margin call and you don't deposit
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
You could simplify this further by making it a bit more abstract: You have $100 worth of stock in Google. You think Google stock is going to appreciate so you borrow $50 of my money to buy more stock. I see that you have $100 worth of Googl
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Unless the niche expertise is impossible to find elsewhere, this ^^ is dead on right. Other comments encouraging the OP to build their own company now and apply to accelerators is a short sighted view of how hard it is to build an actual co
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Amazon reportedly freezing AWS hiring
71 points by rabidonrails 4y ago|58 comments
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
To be fair here, I believe that most people on HN are fans of Stripe (I'll admit that I am) and this isn't going to cause me to write them out of anything. BUT nothing is worse that feeling ignored and we all can empathize with th
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Hey Edwinwee I can appreciate that you're the guy who always has to stand in front of the HN mob, but the answer you gave here is terrifying because it makes it seem like people in Stripe are acting without any empathy for customers. F
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
I assume it's still happening since he posted this 13 minutes ago (at my posting of this).
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted for this comment I think this is right.
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
I'm not sure why the swift backlash - you lived in a city. As I wrote "This sounds right for someone that lives in a city AND doesn't have kids." At the very least, that's an important "AND"
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
This sounds right for someone that lives in a city and doesn't have kids. If you have a family then the options you laid out above don't work very well and if you live in the suburbs then constant uber/biking/public tran
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
I was going to use this! RIP Neil.
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Your answer here is reinforcing OP's point. It's a choice. You can choose to have "faith" in something or not. Because you "simply cannot" you've made a choice.
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Doesn't surprise me that Alex didn't go nuts to make his space look "perfect." I met him a couple years ago back and he was a really nice, smart, and incredibly authentic kinda guy. It even comes through in his interview
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
I usually think this revolves around coming to terms with reality. For example, when you're actively looking for a something (like a cofounder, soulmate etc) you have a mental list of what this person "looks like" or the skil
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
First, I think you hit the nail on the head in:Is this the name of the game ? Yeah it is , always has , always will be. Does it suck for the loser ? Yes for course. However, I didn't really ask for anything. In fact, what I think that
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
I think that people underestimate what this feels like for the Plaid founder and potentially for Patrick too. For Plaid you've spent your life building this business. Presumably there are many happy customers and you're working re
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
But to be fair, in your country (looks like NL) the square mileage is 16,040. The US has a sq mileage of the US is 3,797,000.
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
I think you often forget about this because promises are made that they won't touch anything. So you're being genuine when you say "nothing is going to change" because that's what leadership promised. Trying to main
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by rabidonrails 4y ago
Althought 70B is a large number and based on the anti-trust lens that GOOG is under I wonder if they think this is a better way to return money to the shareholders than inviting DOJ scrutiny.
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by rabidonrails 5y ago
Send me a note and I'll intro you to the right people.
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by rabidonrails 5y ago
You should speak to Twilio and Sinch since they're now the two main players after their acquisitions of Syniverse and SAP respectively. They definitely have pricing power and should be able to help out. Disclosure: My company was acqui
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by rabidonrails 5y ago
But I believe a key aspect of the Airpods is that I don't constantly have to have my phone out. I can be walking around or riding a bike or shopping and still listening and speaking - when needed - to my conference call.
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by rabidonrails 5y ago
There's a lot more nuance to working multiple jobs that seems to be glossed over when he says "my compensation reflects that." Fred's an accomplished VC. Just having his name associated with your company (even if he didn

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