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Yeah and in the very next paragraph, he gets intimidated by a truck driver being annoyed that they are driving 63 mph, so decide.... to slam on the accelerator and go so fast they …

It's patently false the claim that individual investors generally don't beat the market, or that the ones that do only do so by chance. Warren Buffet, a very famous investor you ma…

Sure, it's something the CFO thinks about, but it isn't really something that plays a factor into decisions about how to run the business for other C-level executives.

I would say his industrial design experience at Segway (and Deka) was more relevant to Apple. Let's not forget history here. Musk had a very hard time releasing the Roadster, and i…

I missed it the first time through, although I'm not surprised as in the article his previous automobile engineering experience seems downplayed. Equating his segway experience to …

It seems like the trend lately is to float a tiny amount of shares to the public. From my perspective this creates an artificial supply problem for the stock and makes higher valua…

Interesting move. While I can see some overlap in experience leading large technical projects where industrial design and battery life are of paramount importance, I wonder how muc…

I agree but it's inevitable. The creators are busy creating, and the fact that there is no shortage of "non-creators defined by their taste" (who also have an abundance of free tim…

Also be wary about anecdotes from previous employees who feel slighted by the company, because they are usually passionately vitriolic and have a bone to pick :)

Tesla Roadster's have been on the roads now for 6 years, and I think you'll find it is pretty hard to find one at any significant discount off it's MSRP. Tesla also offered a $1200…

Sounds like you just had a bad manager. At a big company (like Amazon) there are good managers and bad managers. I'm sure your opinion would be different if you actually made it to…

CEOs in general tend to be hard to work with. There are also anecdotes about Gates being rude. Further, I would say the people who want to judge a character by a few anecdotes are …

No one's lunch was eaten by Wii. I think by now it's pretty much been concluded that Wii was an alternative to the PS3/XBOX demographic (that is, people interested in PS3/XBOX also…

It's good to hear from YC founders that they don't see the negative impacts. I can certainly understand why the hype machine is, at least in the short term, valuable to both Sequoi…

I'm sure Sequoia has a laundry list of valuable connections for any YC start up. I just wonder whether contributing to an atmosphere of "frenzied investors" like the original artic…

Might be unrelated but I've noticed an awful lot of YC "hype" (press, news, coverage) since the Sequoia investment. I hope Sequoia is not being a negative influence to YC by dis-pr…

Another common aspect of human nature: Interpreting people in the worst possible way. My opinion of Google has turned from positive to negative in the last 5 years, and it has noth…

Pretty relevant example, as Eastman Kodak just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection just last week.

This review is pretty over the top negative. Not saying it's wrong, but the product has over a thousand reviews on Amazon.com and the average is four stars. You can always take a t…

In my 3 or so years as a Netflix subscriber I have noticed an extremely disturbing trend of Netflix killing useful features simply because they aren't good for the business. I can …

Agreed. It seems for all the vitriol against AirBnb, there seems to be a vitriol against the criticism of AirBnb as well. Either way, all the articles, from TechCrunch and on Hacke…

Google has a support problem. I'm amazed after almost a decade of offering services like email and advertising, they still haven't done anything to develop a reasonable support sys…

One decade is great. Plenty of companies have had their one decade in the sun - Microsoft, Cisco, IBM... Standard Oil. I think your comment is a bit of hyperbole, the success of a …

To be fair, people have been predicting both sides of the coin for a while. People predicting success on hacker news tend to get upvoted, and people predicting failure tend to be d…