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I'd completely forgotten about Digg and how much of a diaster that rollout was. Great example.

"Our voluntary attrition rate for women engineers since 2016 is still zero." -- impressive

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Obviously I won't be able to do justice to an entire business plan in a few sentences. They are definitely not representing their order book as …

They are going to fly transoceanic routes to start so they don't have to worry about sonic booms over population centers.

Obligatory quarterly post from me about optimism (or lack thereof on HN)! :) It's unfortunate that so many people come out of the woodwork to tell people their ideas are terrible o…

It's unfortunate so many people come out of the woodwork to tell people their ideas are terrible or won't work. I think it's far more interesting to ask how a thing might work, whi…

Ah yes, the annual resurfacing of this blog post :) unfortunately I think most of it is still true. I should do a follow up... Edit: I'll address the comments/thoughts here in a fo…

Are you live everywhere in the US or only in certain cities?

This should be the top comment.

It's hard to be helpful here without specifics. What sorts of jobs are you applying for at which companies? What industry are you in? What are the brands you've worked at before? W…

I'm going to disagree with a lot of the sentiment here. I think it's rare to find a business that really truly works and you may have found the beginnings of one. Be ambitious. Fig…

Pick the one with better, higher quality people. In the long run what matters most is who you surround yourself with. You'll learn more from smarter people and become better as a r…

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Find out why the stopped. Did they find something intrinsic in the market that is off or did they just get bored? The range of possibilities is broad and without that information y…

Unfortunately I think most of it still holds. The underlying psychology of the typical consumer hasn't changed. I think it will take a lot of liquidity to stick around long enough …

Kno failed because it focused on trying to make education better when most Americans care about getting the same quality educational resources for cheaper (textbooks in this case).…

The guy who owned the mansion was a former entrepreneur who didn't want to live in the Bay Area but owned this giant house, and several other very expensive properties. To pay the …

I ended up with renting a mansion in Atherton right off of Fair Oaks for dirt cheap for about a year. If you look at the tickets, a lot of them are on the streets around Fair Oaks …

I don't think a lot of people know about the Insight Fellows program yet, but it's highly relevant here: http://insightdatascience.com/ They're taking people in STEM fields who are…

Actually, Instagram turned out to be a fantastic deal. Many thought it was over-valued at the time but Instagram has passed 100 million active users early this year and users spend…

That is a pretty big misunderstanding of how Facebook operates. If Facebook put advertisers ahead of users, it would not be at 1B users and it would not have been around for 8 year…

It's really not that hard to understand why Facebook "actually" bought Parse. Parse has a great product that developers like to use. Facebook has a platform and that requires makin…

Averages miss the point. A top trader at a top firm on wall street will make millions in a few years. There's no chance of making millions by working at Google. The reason someone …