samcampbell

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by samcampbell 6y ago
This isn't a good outcome for Zoox, which raised its Series B at a $3.2B post-money valuation in July 2018. The company also raised ~$200M of debt in 2019 and nearly $1B in total funding. Meaning it's likely only investors will ge
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) PSA for Startups(blog.eladgil.com)
5 points by samcampbell 7y ago|0 comments
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by samcampbell 7y ago
Disaggregated Revenue Data (Nine months ended September 30) Direct to Consumer: 2018- $239M; 2019- $259M [13% YoY growth] Wholesale: 2018- $31M; 2019- $54M [75% YoY growth] "20.3% year-over-year net revenue growth for the nine months e
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by samcampbell 7y ago
"When I look out at the landscape of personal financial products, so many of them focus either on analyzing money or managing/moving it, but not both. Doing this in a holistic manner is difficult, especially with accounts across i
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Automated Personal Finance(nickgrossman.is)
2 points by samcampbell 7y ago|1 comments
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by samcampbell 7y ago
https://www.colorbox.io/
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Synapse raises $33M to build APIs for financial services(venturebeat.com)
2 points by samcampbell 7y ago|0 comments
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by samcampbell 7y ago
While a surprising statistic, this number has actually improved in the last five years. "This is an improvement from half of adults in 2013 being ill-prepared for such an expense [$400]" - Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S
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by samcampbell 7y ago
>> Please note, customers who choose leasing over owning will not have the option to purchase their car at the end of the lease, because with full autonomy coming in the future via an over-the-air software update, we plan to use those
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by samcampbell 8y ago
R&D was $208M in 2017 and $252M in 2018, which was about 45% and 33% of revenue, respectively.
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by samcampbell 8y ago
"For the year ended December 31, 2018, we generated revenue of $755.9 million, as compared to $472.9 million for the same period in 2017, representing year-over-year growth of 60%. For the year ended December 31, 2018, we generated a n
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Pinterest S-1(sec.gov)
292 points by samcampbell 8y ago|172 comments
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Greener Childhood Associated with Happier Adulthood(npr.org)
1 points by samcampbell 8y ago|0 comments
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Truckers soon may replace mirrors with cameras and video screens(jsonline.com)
3 points by samcampbell 8y ago|1 comments
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American Meritocracy Is Killing Youth Sports(theatlantic.com)
3 points by samcampbell 8y ago|0 comments
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by samcampbell 8y ago
Good point- This is an affiliate link. I actually don't want the money from Amazon from the referral link, I signed up for Amazon Associates for the API access to their product catalog for a side project. Amazon requires a certain leve
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by samcampbell 8y ago
I don't pay for cable, but there are similar economics in Internet routers/modems. Comcast used to charge me $10/month to lease their unit. After a few months of spotty WiFi (used cell data instead), I finally called. Service
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by samcampbell 8y ago
On net, the minimum wage increase from $9.47 to as much as $13 per hour raised earnings by an average of $8-$12 per week. The entirety of these gains accrued to workers with above-median experience at baseline; less-experienced workers saw
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Impact of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance(nber.org)
2 points by samcampbell 8y ago|1 comments
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by samcampbell 8y ago
>One prominent study said 55 percent, its critics say 4 percent, and they both used the same data. TL;DR - The first study (55% fished) divided the ocean in 160,000 squares (each 3,100 square kilometers) with 55% containing fishing activ
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Wait, So How Much of the Ocean Is Actually Fished?(theatlantic.com)
7 points by samcampbell 8y ago|4 comments
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The first blockchain Rock-Paper-Scissors game(0xfair.com)
2 points by samcampbell 8y ago|0 comments
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by samcampbell 8y ago
"On the other extreme, Android users with a Yahoo email address have an average default rate of 4.30%, significantly higher than the 2.69% default rate in the highest decile of FICO scores."
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You Can Predict Credit Rating from Your Online Tech Fingerprint(danielmiessler.com)
4 points by samcampbell 8y ago|1 comments
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by samcampbell 8y ago
TL;DR - "This EIP aims to improve the usability of off-chain message signing for use on-chain. We are seeing growing adoption of off-chain message signing as it saves gas and reduces the number of transactions on the blockchain. Curren
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EIP 712: Ethereum typed structured data hashing and signing(eips.ethereum.org)
1 points by samcampbell 8y ago|1 comments
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by samcampbell 8y ago
Agreed. I'm sure someone is working on this and can be easily applied to HN (maybe https://www.agolo.com/ )
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by samcampbell 8y ago
Love it. IMHO comments are the best part of HN. I always read the top few comments before clicking the linked URL.
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Voyage – Open-Sourcing Autonomous Safety(voyage.auto)
3 points by samcampbell 8y ago|0 comments
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by samcampbell 9y ago
Thanks! Yes, referencing tools.

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