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Most VCs have a relatively short timeline to deploy money by or they will be berated by investors for sitting on it. Therein lies the problem.

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The biggest ripoffs were the textbooks. Especially the textbooks written by the teachers, themselves, who forced you to buy them.

Please read the actual article instead of blindly responding to the title.

Yeah, and the reason 30 under 30 is a warning sign is because the founders that apply to and agree to do Forbes to do "30 under 30" are much more concerned with marketing than actu…

If you are a veteran of software in a big company, we all know there will be weekly or bi-weekly meetings that some PM will set up. All the PM will do is go over the JIRA tickets a…

I once told a female coworker she used my style of syntactic sugar. Later that week, I received a stern email from HR.

The most unethical people I know have taken ethics classes and signal that they did it.

To be honest, it may help for the modern Ferrari driver. It doesn't help for those who appreciate the Ferraris from the '90s and before.

It is ironic that she talks about "the patriarchy" brainwashing people. I have serious doubts that she came up with the thought to blame it on the "patriarchy" herself.

Don't even mention Ecobee. They've done the exact same thing as Google Nest by bricking their older hardware.

One guy at our company once had this brilliant idea as well. Go to a bar and validate the idea with strangers. After all, our business idea was related to sports and they would sur…

I have a friend who I suspect has resorted to answering me with AI when I ask him a question via text message that he may not know the answer to. Many people do not want to appear …

It solves a very real real world problem: putting more money into the hands of government officials.

Anyone who does competitive gaming or sports knows that the greatest compliment is to be called a hacker or cheater when not actually cheating.

I don't mean to be negative, but things become boring fast when you have no hobbies and interests outside of work. You were likely programmed to do work -- so much that it became y…

I agree on all points. However, if he already had several millions like Mira and Ilya, his choice to work for Zuckerberg would likely be different. Where is the glory in bending th…

A JIRA ticket with hundreds of legal dependencies.

"Founder" and "founding engineer" are two entirely different things. One of those phrases is a glorified substitute for "early engineer". Kind of like when you buy a "founders edit…

Guy claims he's tired of paying for electricity because of the "ludacris" (sic) costs so he's going to "DIY". Yet, first thing he does is pay a guy to do it.

Comparing Holmes to Neumann is a terrible parallel for obvious reasons to those that understand these matters. You should have used someone like Jeffrey Skilling instead.

Charlie would scorn this "real talk."

The difference is that Charlie didn't have his partner die.

Anyone here heard of Lacework? Nope. Thought so. This could have been Lacework had Mike Speiser not let his hubris catch up with himself.

May I suggest using proper English? I believe part of the reason you are getting downvoted is due to the hat language you are using. Several people, understandably, will not compre…