shanghaiaway

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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Get enough sleep.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Selling on Amazon is not DTC. Shopify is DTC. Amazon is a middleman like Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Amazon doesn't handle all headaches- it creates numerous new headaches. Selling on Amazon is not a long term strategy and at most it should
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Rather than stacking it should be lining up a variety of skills, because it is horizontal integration rather than vertical.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Rulers have to work to maintain or expand, otherwise they decline.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Service businesses definitely scale. See Accenture, WPP.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
> Yes, we applied to YC. We didn't get an interview. I assume that the market size isn't big enough for VC. Worse ideas with smaller markets have been funded by YC. I'm guessing you could have gotten in if you pitched a la
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Did you play in DkH?
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Software developers cannot sit down and design a new type of spacecraft engine.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Elon Musk. Google/Waymo. Uber. Every car company working on "selfdriving." Amazon. Etc. Literally everyone in tech is working on an AI-powered pipedream.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
The ruling class works too. They rule.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Stock grant over 4 years, TC is per year.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
They were fired because Musk himself is an incompetent manager. He hired and managed these managers so the failure of not being able to get the Org running is on him.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Amazon is fat and lazy now. They grew by offering the lowest prices on products you know, with fast shipping. Now, you don't know what you're buying or that you're getting the best price, and shipping isn't as fast.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
The work of a developer at Google is more valuable than at other companies, especially in Europe. Because they create more value with the same skillset and doing similar work, Google can pay more.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Yeah, no.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Content producers trade in IP. There is no substitute for the Lion King. Now, the challenge is creating such IP consistently.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Being a distributor is no better than being a producer. They have different strengths and are reliant on each other. Who holds the power in the relationship is cyclical. All platforms rise and eventually decline. Amazon has already started
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
"Product Manager, Friend List at Facebook"
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
It's a funnel. You can drop out along the way but if you're not in it from the start then it's close to impossible to enter into it.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
There are an incredible numbers of funded startups in China. You can't make up stuff because you live in the country.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Would be interested in seeing a write up on your services stack.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
He does. And poor people. And old people. He still wants the money of advertisers targeting these groups though.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Snapchat didn't have to be a fad. Spiegels incompetence as a CEO and as a product person killed the business.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
I read the whole memo, or tried to. Ridiculous. It means nothing at all. One OKR is "spread positivity". What does that even mean? How is it measurable? https://cheddar.com/videos/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-company
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Get a VPN, that's all.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
How's Johnny really managing his dependencies?
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
I don't need a citation to counter an obvious lie, by a notorious liar, backed by nothing. The same person also claims that he works 120 hour weeks. Obvious falsehood.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
The technology isn't there. There will never be self driving cars.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Musk doesn't spend 85% of his time on engineering.
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by shanghaiaway 8y ago
He did not design Falcon.

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