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by tomasien 11y ago
The amazing thing about this to me is realizing how massively undervalued Stripe is if things like Relay are actually successful. The networks effects created by Relay would be massive.
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by tomasien 11y ago
"the first ever bitcoin debit card" meanwhile, Shift has been out for over a year... https://shiftpayments.com I guess it's maybe the first Bitcoin ONLY debit card?
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by tomasien 11y ago
Love the direction you're going in with Kash btw! It feels extremely familiar ;) (note: I'm being serious I actually love it)
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by tomasien 11y ago
(serious question not trying to demean Pando): does Pando have enough readership to warrant being included in the press section of an event with competitive press entry? I've enjoyed a lot of the Pando articles I've read, but I do
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by tomasien 11y ago
They're hard to enforce, but I can tell you from experience (current) that it doesn't matter - their existence and enforceability in ANY way in a given state is harmful in a big way. California has basically done the right thing a
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by tomasien 11y ago
If it turns out UBeam is not lying and does have a working version (read the article I posted), then what?
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by tomasien 11y ago
There's a weird period during things that appear truly disruptive where the established player may try to buy you. This happens when it becomes clear there's a non-zero chance that the established player may quickly become extinct
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by tomasien 11y ago
Unless the extensive DD reportedly done did not include asking physics people, which would shock me, it appears that there may be some disagreement as to whether this is or isn't plausible. With reports of working POC's already, t
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by tomasien 11y ago
Didn't we go through this before? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091 Then there was this - http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/26/kill-the-cord/#.mdch08:KANb It turns out it&#x2
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by tomasien 11y ago
Any product the serves people with uncertain income or abnormal financial lives (freelancers, contractors, poor, etc) is met so predictably with comments that criticize the audience by proxy of criticizing the product. "How could someo
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by tomasien 11y ago
Greg Kidd, the founder of 3taps, did not have to keep fighting this fight - AT ALL. He is one of the top execs at Ripple Labs, was in the first round of Twitter (and Square), and doesn't have his net OR self worths tied up in 3taps. He
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by tomasien 11y ago
Everytime I've ever just yelled "BLOCKCHAIN" as a suggested solution has been exactly half sarcastic. It's comical how often that comes up (in startup circles especially) but also so often has a somewhat plausible applic
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by tomasien 11y ago
This is so, so very wrong - Capital One is crawling with software engineers, they're considered way ahead of most other FIs with what they're doing. The history of Capital One is why this happened - it has acquired so many things
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by tomasien 11y ago
They definitely didn't see their own story at the time, see my comment at the deepest nesting of the thread. Totally agree. Also agree that execution and actually building a great business is the most important thing and if you survive
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by tomasien 11y ago
Totally - see my comment at the bottom of this thread.
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by tomasien 11y ago
If that's the case, the backstory to Airbnb indicates to me that around this time they had still not adequately figured out how to tell their story in such a way where it seemed like a big deal. At the time I believe, it was about: - P
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by tomasien 11y ago
The conclusion from putting the two together is "when you get hard nos from smart people, if you're still compelled by your mission, keep going and work on either changing your story or telling it better".
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by tomasien 11y ago
These rejections are a testament to why you shouldn't give up just because smart people give you a hard "no", but also why storytelling is so important. These investors clearly did not understand Airbnb, and I think the Airbn
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by tomasien 11y ago
I saw this as a possible helpful tool. They actually sent some un-solicited emails to folks running large projects (which they definitely should not have done but seem to feel bad about) so it got a lot of bad will off the bat, but it seems
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by tomasien 11y ago
This is great! Zen99 and Painless1099 are both working on providing less complexity for workers that stay 1099 and the value is obvious, this goes above and beyond in a way that seems appealing to both sides. Super interesting developments
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by tomasien 11y ago
Interesting fact w/r/t how pissed people are at him on Reddit: people have gone back and downvoted every single one of his comments now, to the point that several pages back his comments (typically which get upvoted like crazy) ar
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1099ers are still 1099ers(medium.com)
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by tomasien 11y ago
This looks great! My last company would have loved this.
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by tomasien 11y ago
I know a lot of Uber drivers who make money, they're just not the ones being noisy on forums. I do think it's all about driving in the high volume / surge times like weekends, I think those that want to make it a full time jo
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by tomasien 11y ago
How can you say that in response to a comment saying that Craigslist made $335 MILLION and doubled revenue year over year? I mean sure perhaps dispute the underlying facts (they seem rock solid to me) but if making $335,000,000 in revenue i
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by tomasien 11y ago
I agree about conversations - I actually commented that I wish I could respond to people, and somebody responded to that on the map and we had a quick conversation, just knowing that our dots were for each other. It ruled.
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by tomasien 11y ago
The fact that there are people waiting to pounce on every mistake people make is a bad thing. It is not helpful and we should give people room to be wrong and to learn. However, the parallel you seem to be trying to make between that and th
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by tomasien 11y ago
I would LOVE this - it would be such a great way to jump into real world context for what's happening in startups. What hackers are working on seems better to me than discussing the latest funding news.
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by tomasien 11y ago
You may want to get some clarity on this, this is not a policy Uber or Lyft have in place.
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by tomasien 11y ago
Thanks it wasn't at first, gonna read it now.

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