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by ziszis 10y ago
Traditional customer service channels are increasingly broken since they are seen as a cost center to be reduced by many companies. In particular, if you are trying to cancel service or withdraw money it is even "worse" because no
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by ziszis 10y ago
This is a classic halo effect [1]. A positive halo was "Google is making lots of money and they have 20% time. So, smart companies should do this." This is a negative halo "Uber is experiencing lots of bad PR and hustling is
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Uber sues Seattle over law allowing drivers to unionize(theverge.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
There is an interesting theory [1] that Uber's value prop to consumers is dependent on subsidizing 59% of the cost of each ride. Over time they have to remove this subsidy to stem the Billion $ annual losses. The relationship with driv
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by ziszis 10y ago
I have talked to numerous Uber people over the past month and there are many that are locked in because they can't trade the stock and can't afford to exercise the options because of the valuation. Very unhappy .
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by ziszis 10y ago
I wonder why he is even apologizing. I assume he can't be fired because of dual class voting structure. I don't think he actually cares about the driver.
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by ziszis 10y ago
How many ethical and legal violations will be until the CEO of Uber is fired? If this were a public company, 1) the stock would have taken several hits and 2) he would have been out a long time ago. A decade ago it was Worldcom and Enron an
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by ziszis 10y ago
There was a time when founders were replaced too soon with "professional management". The pendulum has swung the other way with the mythology of the founder. Now, founders are rarely if ever replaced.
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by ziszis 10y ago
The post misses an important ingredient that separates most product managers from great product managers: strategy/vision. The best product managers have a clear point of view on the long-term and where the product should go. You will
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Tech giants who didn't sign Silicon Valley's letter against Trump's travel ban(mashable.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
Of the five largest tech companies in the world, the CEOs of four of them have come out against the Executive Order targeting specific immigrants: GOOG/MSFT/FB/AAPL. AMZN and Jeff Bezos have strangely been absent even though
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by ziszis 10y ago
I have tried several different routers and firmwares. The #1 thing that made accessing the Internet faster was implementing domain level blocking of the top ad and tracking servers at the router level (e.g. doubleclick.net) OpenDNS/Cis
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by ziszis 10y ago
Overall mission statements have low correlation with behavior. Enron's motto was "Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence."
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by ziszis 10y ago
There are many examples. Here is an obvious one - when Amazon stopped selling Apple TVs to punish Apple. Hard to see how this is good for consumers. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/01/ama
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Silicon Valley’s Anti-Marketing Bias(threadling.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
Neil Hunt a year ago [ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/09/the-real-reason-netflix-won... ] “I think it's something that lots of people ask for. We'll see if it's something lots of people will use. Undou
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by ziszis 10y ago
1st assumption is correct. 2nd assumption is incorrect. My wife was perfectly happy in particular with the environmental and ethical benefits. Also doesn't hurt that you can get a larger diamond that looks much better. Give your girl t
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by ziszis 10y ago
We came to a similar conclusion. Although we had already bought a diamond ring. After researching, we figured out that we could sell our diamond (we only got about 60% of the original price back from a diamond broker) and buy a twice as lar
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Blocking ad blockers boosted Facebook’s desktop ad revenue 18%(techcrunch.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
AdBlock has commented on this and seems that there have been intermittent periods of no blocking: https://adblockplus.org/blog/ping-pong-with-facebook "While Facebook appears to have had the last word for now, thi
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by ziszis 10y ago
Why they do it? Easy. You are not the customer, the advertiser is. So as long as it is tolerable for a sufficient % of the audience, it is worth it. Case in point, circumventing ad blockers. Audience explicitly doesn't want the ad expe
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Contoso Fooled by Google, Returns to Microsoft(blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
There is agile software development and agile companies. I am impressed that a big company like T-mobile can move this quickly to recognize a trend and embrace it. Having worked at a large company, just getting approval on press release can
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by ziszis 10y ago
Low impact in the short term, potentially huge impact in medium term (1-2 years). The pattern for other AWS services is that they will drive down price until they are low price provider and quickly close feature gaps. Adding inbound to SMS
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by ziszis 10y ago
Twilio has been very effective at the low volume end of the market with individual developers where simplicity and time to market is more important than price. But that equation changes as a company grows. The question remains whether they
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The states people really want to move to – and those they don’t(washingtonpost.com)
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Another tech CEO makes insensitive comments(sfexaminer.com)
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by ziszis 11y ago
Talking to a notary based in SF this week, she saw an increasing # of Bay Area clients buying a home in Portland or Seattle and moving.
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Your Seamless Food May Not Actually Be from a Restaurant(time.com)
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by ziszis 11y ago
Kaldi. "Kaldi is a toolkit for speech recognition written in C++ and licensed under the Apache License v2.0." http://kaldi.sourceforge.net

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