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This is not truly a 0% loan. Because of the fees, you will pay a minimum of 0,74%. Also because these mortgage instruments are traded at a price less than 100, you have to take out…

I'm not convinced that selling some of his SpaceX stock on the secondary market is difficult, or that selling some of his Tesla stocks would cause a rout, especially when the immed…

Thanks for the facts. You state that he can't buy out Tesla, which is true. But why does he need to buy out Tesla to cover their debt? On the contrary he would need to sell some of…

Why is the Tesla stock illiquid? It's publicly traded. I'm sure he could sell SpaceX stock on the secondary market quite easily. SpaceX has never lacked in interest from investors.…

The CEO has shown willingness to fund Tesla Motors and SpaceX with almost all his personal funds. If I remember correctly, he is worth more than Tesla's debt, and unless he is some…

How does secondary market transaction work, in these cases? Is it only when a round is raised that shareholders can take money off the table, or does it ever happen between rounds …

If you're a profitable private company, aren't you legit?

I don't imagine Sam Altman made enough money from the sale of Loopt to lead a $50m round (only guesswork though). Is he somehow leveraged by having raised a fund for "personal inve…

"never publicly demonstrated" still leaves the possibility that they privately demonstrated a prototype to investors.

The landing page is probably just for showing people that they're working on the product. Very few of the eventual consumers are going to visit the site in its current form.

As always, the people of HN have found the weaknesses in this product that the founders haven't thought of at all, and they will surely shut the whole thing down now.

So this guy invites people to interviews by saying: “You know what, I've really enjoyed this conversation. Is there any chance you have a couple hours in the next few days to come …

Look at Uber's job postings, and you can see what kind of employees are required for each new geography.

This seems to insinuate that financial firms are not as numerous or maybe not as big as before. Does anyone know whether the financial sector has significantly grown or diminished …

This was a nice story about thorough debugging, but I can't see how the discovery method is anything different than what most people use.

Just looked at the Jasper project. The voice synthesizer sounds like crap compared to a product like Siri, and I suspect the voice recognition is worse too. I've coded on some the …

It doesn't look like applications from Google have been denied. Since the H1B visas are drawn in a lottery where there's three times as many applications as the quota, how are Goog…

This talk might have been brilliant, but I wasn't really able to take away any concrete lessons or advice from it. In my opinion it was far too vague. I've really enjoyed the other…

The "etiquette" of these companies sounds absolutely soul-crushing.

Did the author use one of his own tweets as source material?

What: A site/app that will tell you the most popular events in your city, and which event you should go to. Why: I wanna be able to reach after my phone and quickly find out where …

Come on, edit that.

I've been thinking about finding an app like this for a while. This is an ok implementation, but I think it's too rigid. Something like this should be messier and give the user som…