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by raiyu 9y ago
It is of course possible and just requires a board vote, but since the company doesn't receive the funds and have them, it wouldn't be a good idea. So it's possible of course, but isn't done 99.99999% of the time. Now if
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by raiyu 9y ago
The $1B that is being invested at the $70B valuation is direct from the company and Softbank will be purchasing preferred shares like any other VC. These preferred shares have extra rights, things like liquidation preference, board seats, v
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by raiyu 9y ago
It's an internally sponsored secondary which means that the buyer has already been determined which in this case is Softbank and Uber will put together some requirements around which share holders can sell and what amount of their stak
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by raiyu 9y ago
Looking at their most recent quarter (Q3) growth has slowed down to 80% YoY. YTD revenue: $538MM Q4 should be their best quarter but look at last year we see that Q3 was $128MM, followed by $165MM in Q4 and then $149MM in Q1. Using Q3 as a
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by raiyu 9y ago
The problem with large platforms is that they are open to abuse you see the same problems at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, it's basically an infinite problem. All of the "machine learning" algorithms aren't really tha
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by raiyu 9y ago
The definition of propaganda: "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view." Negative ads by politicians are completely propaganda.
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by raiyu 9y ago
This entire focus on FB and Twitter ads is completely ridiculous. They are open platforms that you can use in whatever way doesn't conflict with their ToS. You can spread false information, or information that is dressed up or disguise
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by raiyu 9y ago
This study is definitely flawed and should differentiate between hyper dense cities like NYC and other major metro areas. In the first graph they ask people what they would do if Uber/Lyft wasn't available and only 1% responded th
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by raiyu 9y ago
Yes there is too much capital, after all the US printed over a trillion dollars to avoid the collapse of the financial industry. None of those banks except for two went bankrupt, which means that now you have an extra trillion dollars that
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by raiyu 9y ago
300 percent growth to £129M is impressive growth and those stats are 9 months old, so if they have been able to continue to increase their revenue growth they maybe ending 2017 with £250MM+ which would be about an 8-10x multiple on their 20
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by raiyu 9y ago
Absolutely doesn't take much to find the links: https://www.google.com/search?q=patreon+nsfw&oq=patreon+nsfw... Simple writeup: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16074892/patreon
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by raiyu 9y ago
It's not a new concept that's for sure, but this just seems like another VC fund with not much of a difference. When you get past the fees discussion and everything else what you end up with is $600MM in capital to invest. That is
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Slack now at $200MM ARR(techcrunch.com)
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by raiyu 9y ago
Monetizing open source directly is a bit challenging because you end up stuck in the same service model as everyone else. Which is basically to sell various support contracts to the fortune 100-500. Forking a project into a enterprise (paid
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by raiyu 9y ago
Big difference between what snapchat counts as a "view" - just opening a single video - and actually viewing the program, as in watching it for more than second. Would be interesting to see what 29MM viewers converts into number o
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by raiyu 9y ago
We started writing code for DO in the summer of 2011, we evaluated OpenStack at the time but felt there were four major problems. 1 - First was that it didn't really work. You could stand it up but DHCP licenses would fail, your VMs wo
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by raiyu 9y ago
Most likely we will have a similar beta to what we've done with Block and Object storage, but it's still to early to provide a time line that isn't in quarters with a marge of error of 1-2 quarters.
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by raiyu 9y ago
We're actively building VPC =]
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by raiyu 9y ago
This is an invitation for beta access, you sign up to request access and then and invitation to be a part of the beta access will be emailed separately.
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by raiyu 9y ago
Certainly if you are considering moving a production workload, then a beta test, regardless of the company, may not be an ideal fit. Object storage has been a highly requested feature by our customers and now that we are getting closer to G
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by raiyu 9y ago
Certainly the GA release will have all of that information, but given that large product releases like this are about a year of work, and part of the release schedule for us is a beta test with existing customers the introduction is basical
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by raiyu 9y ago
VPC is in the works at the moment, still a bit too early for a release date, but the team has been on it for about the past 3 quarters.
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by raiyu 9y ago
We aren't providing pricing information till full GA which is later in the year. All beta users will be given 1TB of free object storage during the beta period.
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by raiyu 9y ago
We roll out a public beta test with existing customers to ensure performance and reliability before doing a GA release. This allows customers to use the new product and provide feedback as well as help us to ensure a great level of service
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Personal details of 200MM US citizens (63% of pop) exposed by unsecured AWS file(bbc.com)
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by raiyu 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497784 Yesterday's thread where the majority of the conversation was
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by raiyu 9y ago
We don't have a formal system for that but we do announce customer early request betas. Sometimes they are invite only, other times we open them more broadly. In those cases where it is more broad it's usually featured on our home
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by raiyu 9y ago
Object Storage is currently in internal-company-beta =] After that we will be doing a customer beta followed by a GA release scheduled for Q3. =]]
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by raiyu 9y ago
We are about 2 quarters in on VPC, and we are looking to launch a full VPC solution in Q4 of 2017 or early Q1 of 2018. That coupled with firewalls will allow you to completely segment your traffic and also ensure that all private traffic is
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by raiyu 10y ago
Remember that while Steve Jobs infamously called Dropbox a feature, not a product, it took quite some time before Apple's cloud offering was really production ready. The same can be said for the other software giants. Also, for Dropbox

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