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I'd take a candidate who fights for a view I disagree with over one who hedges to please everyone (Strong opinions weakly held, but willing to change their mind if/when the data te…

>Best approach would be to make very few investments Top VCs—who see the best deals and run deep diligence—still only have a 1–5% hit rate. As an angel, you don’t have that level o…

They do, this URL just links to a custom GPT hosted on OpenAI's chatgpt URL.

>"It was very sad to call it quits because getting the funding to make those units was the only hurdle before making serious progress,” Temple said. “If they connected me with inve…

100x is a great return even for YC standards, but the best returns that business angels, VCs and YC have had is in the order of magnitude of 10000x (yes, ten thousand). So capping …

What CC is that?

France’s RSA does not meet UBI standards that we’re considering in the US / California because the amount paid is so small. If you live alone with 2 kids, RSA would be 899€/month i…

> You just don't sell all of the company The other option (more often used) is that you can raise more money at a higher valuation. You dilute yourself by the same amount as the in…

I'll also mention: this is a problem that goes up every ladder. Marketing individual contributor wants to show good performance to their manager, so delivering rides for cheap is g…

What's important to highlight here is that marketing teams at companies such as Uber are incentivized to pus vendors to drive fraud. Specific example: Uber works with vendors A, B,…

I’m curious how many users (%) are annoyed by this. My gut feeling tells me only HN/Reddit/tech is annoyed by this, most people aren’t. Which is why we haven’t seen a competitor ar…

>Doesn't seem that big in comparison to what SF annual budget is. There are no singled-out pockets that you can tap into and make up SF annual budget. It's all about cumulating a l…

Not aware of any that do that for laptops but I know 2 personally that do that for phones. They have a collection of devices (phones) trash to go, so it’s not as unscalable as I in…

You’re focused on the wrong part of the chain here. As the camera system is only as weak as it’s weakest link, if Apple indeed made a circuit connected to the LED (and I fully trus…

Managers, probably. Companies + investors = less likely. >what is needed to retain employees and keep churn rates down to acceptable rates Ultimately, this value depends on the loc…

Some companies agree with that and some don’t. For companies that disagree with you statement, the rationale is really simple: the company is ready to pay top $ because cost of lif…

> But I also want to remark that in many ways, building a company is also a silly thing that in fact requires skill. It is - Tikej's point isn't that it's not a skill - but rather …

Uber burning money on opex and Uber investing in Uber's future (through Lime) are two very different ways to spend money. Don't expect Uber to stop spending money, it'll simply do …

There is a misconception that Uber loses money on every ride. If you look at their SEC filing, it's not how they actually work (I won't have time to do that search for you now but …

>If Youtube starts banning those accounts then they are effectively not allowing anyone else to join their platform That's a huge if - one that Youtube probably is not going to enf…

It's very likely that if the said small channels are indeed too small to be allowed to monetize, then they would fall under the not profitable accounts even if they were allowed to…

Interestingly, this correlates well with what is happening in the ad-tech world. Specifically in performance marketing spend, 15% of the budget is very often allocated to "new init…

My ROI numbers there are all examples to demonstrate my point, they’re not actual values supposed to reflect any sort of reality. As to conflict of interest, I did mention we work …

What claim are you referring to?