sharadov

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by sharadov 6mo ago
Mercor is the most scummy company out there, run by a bunch of sleazeball 20 somethings who are getting a lot of press as the youngest billionaires in the making. Can't wait for them to crash and burn.
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by sharadov 6mo ago
Not as easy as it sounds, most acquisitions are not integrated well. He was astute in determining they were going to be 100X what he paid( and he paid a lot by the standards of the day).
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by sharadov 6mo ago
I plan to read it, I've no doubt he's a douchebag, but most hyper-successful CEOs are psychopaths.
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by sharadov 6mo ago
No I don't that's why I said I don't like him or the platform. But the products are great, and there is no competition. And neither India or Latin America built domestic products to rival Whatsapp/Insta/FB.
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by sharadov 6mo ago
As much as I hate Zuck - he's a ballsy CEO, he makes big bets, some work and some don't. Instagram and Whatsapp did! Heck in Asia and Latin America entire economies use Whatsapp for transacting business.
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by sharadov 6mo ago
Tech debt and maintainability were important because time was of the essence in another era. If the cycles get compressed by say 95%, to hell with it, just trash the old and write everything from scratch, start from a clean slate each time?
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by sharadov 6mo ago
Are these guys public? Can I short them? Oh, even easier maybe just wager on Kalshi?
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by sharadov 6mo ago
I think those days of "high sincerity" and trying to change the world are long gone and replaced by "high charlatanism" and making a killing. I don't blame them - the collective optimism about AI has been replaced
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by sharadov 6mo ago
work of art!
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by sharadov 6mo ago
Strange but I smelled a fraud as soon as I finished reading the NYT article. This is the second time in my life that this has happened to me. First time was when I interviewed at this social media startup which had raised a 100 mil during
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by sharadov 6mo ago
Maybe vibe coding gets so good that we completely trash what was written and build from zero. I've seen that with badly written code as well, easier to rewrite than fix the un-goldly mess.
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by sharadov 6mo ago
Rather than encouraging immigration they come up with this.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
The problem is with the media pouring endless attention on these tech bros and bestowing the mantel of expertise in every field on them - philosophy, politics, religion, sociology. So now they spout their mouth off and the media hangs on th
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by sharadov 7mo ago
Could not happened to a more usurious company.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
The circular deals are getting old - it's like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic's deck.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
I was a SQL server DBA early in my career, I've not used it in the last decade, glad to hear that it's still a great product.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
I can understand why Amazon, MS and Nvidia invested - nefarious circular deals, but Softbank? I mean who the heck is giving Masayoshi Son money to invest? Behooves me!
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by sharadov 7mo ago
SQL Server was pretty good until they went the Oracle way with their licensing shenanigans, but even with that they were a lot cheaper than Oracle. In fact SQL server was one of the few great products that came out of MS.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
It's exhausting - sometimes it feels like you are continuously redirecting a deviant child who just won't give up on his shenanigans.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
No, they don't have world class technology teams, they hire contractors to do all the tech stuff, their expertise is in management, yes that's world class.
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by sharadov 7mo ago
When you can't convince, confuse is how you sum up corporate speak.
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by sharadov 8mo ago
I can't believe that people are so naively optimistic - it's not too long that we fought endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to what end? The Taliban ruling Afghanistan and an unstable coalition in Iraq. You know how much we
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by sharadov 8mo ago
War is America's business and business is good.
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by sharadov 8mo ago
Yeah right and democracy was created in Iraq and Afghanistan as well!
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by sharadov 8mo ago
Meanwhile Pakistan launched airstrikes on Afghanistan https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/27/pakistan-...
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by sharadov 8mo ago
This podcast between Tyler and Dan was a great listen - https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/dan-wang/ Dan came off as very China biased and Tyler literally schooled him on a few occasions. But despite that
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by sharadov 8mo ago
I am more interested in 2nd order effects, people get experience working at these larger companies and leave to start their own. Exactly how SV works.
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by sharadov 8mo ago
33K workers added in 2025 is a drop in the bucket for India. India graduates way too many engineers vs not as many jobs created.
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by sharadov 8mo ago
Good for India, as it should, for far too long there was a brain drain from India > US. India needs more entrepreneurs.
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by sharadov 8mo ago
It depends - construction workers in the US especially look like shit, given the crap that they eat - fast food, sodas and then beers after the job. Go look at construction workers elsewhere, especially Asia, they're ripped. Because th

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