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All Snakes, No Ladders – Why is modern career advice so terrible?(medium.com)
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by xandar11 9y ago
How does this fit into his Monopoly first strategy? News outlets are not monopolies and have no significant competitive advantage (unlike PayPal and FB which have network effects). I've listened somewhere that he also opened a restaura
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by xandar11 9y ago
There is one article where he writes how people/hackers get rich by creating wealth [1]. This is not the case with Travis and Uber, which the article I've linked to shows. It's also mentioned in his article on economic inequ
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by xandar11 9y ago
This is an example of someone getting rich without increasing economic welfare. It goes against what Paul Graham writes about wealth creation and confirms Tim O’Reilly's view [2] that many people get rich by selling shares to suckers.
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by xandar11 9y ago
Uber's business model is a total failure. Hubert Horan has done an amazing job exposing it [1] and you can also listen to his interview [2]. [1] http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html [2] https://www.youtube.com
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by xandar11 9y ago
"Yeah the Bay Area is expensive but the tech salaries make up for it." This could be good for people who send some money back home (e.g. Indians). If you have a high number is absolute terms, then you can send more money to family
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by xandar11 9y ago
Why are people obsessed with this topic lately? Do you think fame inequality is a problem? There are people who have 100s of millions of followers/fans and then there are people who are not famous (vast majority). Why is that not consi
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by xandar11 9y ago
There is a great analysis of Uber's failed business model by Hubert Horan [1] [1] http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html
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by xandar11 9y ago
When will people stop with that Henry Ford myth? You don't have to pay employees a high wage so they can afford to buy things that are produced. You hear it when automation is mentioned: "Businesses are constantly automating produ
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by xandar11 9y ago
Top 500 YouTubers see their subscribers_count increase by 100 million this year. Meanwhile, I got 0 increase in subscribers. It's not fair! Just imagine how much influence these popular YouTubers have compared to regular folks, the imp
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by xandar11 9y ago
I'm skeptical about all this. Hubert Horan [1] has done a great job exposing Uber's failed business model in 11 part series on NakedCapitalism ("Can Uber Ever Deliver?"). Same goes for Lyft. When it comes to self driving
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Can I get an E-2 visa based on revenues from my US company? I've read there is some minimum investment requirement (like at least $100k) for that visa. Can I use revenues/profits from an active US business to meet those basic requ