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by seanlinehan 8y ago
Most likely this will be done by issuing new equity. The press release states that they will exchange Twilio Class A common stock per share of SendGrid common stock. They defined the exchange ratio (that's why the price is ~$2B and not
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Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools?
40 points by seanlinehan 8y ago|45 comments
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by seanlinehan 8y ago
That's what I was thinking!
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by seanlinehan 8y ago
I hope somebody runs the data in the future to see if there was a statistical difference in outcomes between the companies intended to be accepted vs. not :-)
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
Do you have any examples of this? Sounds cool
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
Right now we don't have any remote opportunities but perhaps in the future.
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
We're hiring! Product + Design: https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/design Engineering: https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/engineering
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
If there were any red flags that you could have known about, yes. Not knowing does not grant you immunity under FCPA.
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
Does anybody know what happened with 21's vision of an embeddable mining chip? https://medium.com/@21/a-bitcoin-miner-in-every-device-and-i...
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
It's different in that publicly traded company market caps are usually based on the value of common stock. The valuation touted in headlines for private companies is usually the implied value of a new, privileged block of stock. The co
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Priceline now worth $100B(google.com)
230 points by seanlinehan 9y ago|214 comments
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
It practice it tends to be the exact opposite. Your most invested users tend to be the most vocal and least likely to represent the majority of your user base. The additional risk of abandonment of the entrenched super-users is usually 1. a
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
Taking calls while driving is pretty effective. If you have a side project you could do sales calls while driving.
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by seanlinehan 9y ago
Here is a NYT article that explains what USAFacts.org is: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/business/dealbook/steve-b... > On Tuesday, Mr. Ballmer plans to make public a database and a report th
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by seanlinehan 10y ago
Yeah, classic brokerage biz model. We contract in bulk with asset owners and sell piecemeal.
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by seanlinehan 10y ago
Depends on the situation. Our rates have expiration dates attached to them, so if the price went up before our negotiated rate expired, we will eat it. If the rates expired, we leave it to the judgment of their account manager on what to do
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by seanlinehan 10y ago
Lower their prices, without prompting. At Flexport we sell logistics services. The price of ocean freight is highly variable (less dynamic than, say, the stock market or airline seats, but still fluctuates a ton). We make money by brokering
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by seanlinehan 10y ago
You can also build a successful startup not being a slave working 14hr days. Both small businesses and big businesses can be either well run or poorly run. It's mostly a function of building the right culture, having the right systems
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by seanlinehan 10y ago
The Serenity Prayer popular in 12-step programs is the tldr; of Stoicism I keep in mind: Grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.
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On Hanjin(flexport.com)
1 points by seanlinehan 10y ago|0 comments
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Redesign Hacker News(medium.com)
6 points by seanlinehan 10y ago|2 comments
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by seanlinehan 10y ago
The purpose is to make supply closer match demand. If fares increase, more drivers will be willing to drive. If fares increase, less consumers will request rides. You're correct in assuming that increased prices will reduce the number
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
These systems fulfills all the requirements in yesterday's world. And more importantly, they fulfill the requirements of the company's operating organization; not their customer's. Modern customers want real-time data and ana
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
All the big players definitely have spend years and millions (hundreds of millions) optimizing these things. But they are optimizing DOS-based systems built in the 80s. The tech stack that the old guard is working with is unbelievable.
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
You don't have to automate the parsing of queries to produce leverage here. Every time they answer a query successfully, I would imagine they add that to an internal repository of information. So the technology play would be less on th
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Here’s What San Francisco Looks Like as an Affordable City(medium.com)
2 points by seanlinehan 11y ago|0 comments
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
Yeah, I imagine they will drive right towards each other. Dropbox is trying to get better at the whole collaboration / enterprise use case. And I have no clue about Slack's plans around document handling, but feels like a natural
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
Slack and Dropbox have pretty different business models from my vantage point. Slack entered the market as an enterprise product vs. consumer. Slack was built for collaboration from day 1, so there is some amount of lock in (change manageme
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
You can check out their F1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000155837015... 2013: $148.4M 2014: $215.1M (44% growth) 2015: $319.5M (48% growth)
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by seanlinehan 11y ago
> Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected ? Part of me thinks that Zuck means people without family or otherwise ties to wealth and influence. But another part of me

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