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I dunno - I heard about tariffs in every single Harris speech. I don't get ads because of my location, but they were clearly saying it.

Many corporations pay so low that people have to be on assistance even though they are gainfully employed. Thus, corporations off-load their costs onto the American taxpayer. This …

Yes agreed - the internationalization of the college application process has changed everything. The other factor is that when you have such competitiveness, you start seeing a pro…

Simple: he's crushed because he had a dream of going there - he wasn't framing it as "I'm better than everyone else." As I mentioned, it is his dream running into reality. So sayin…

What I'm really curious about is how he got into Stanford, a school that famously no one gets into, given what we know about him. Not to say he's not smart or interesting - he's cl…

Oh where there's a will (and a profit) there's a way. See this story about bags of nickels stored turned out to be filled with rocks. https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgans-nick…

If you're concerned about those things, then I get it. I'm not - I've never had an issue.

"Second, I also don't get how people trust strangers with intimate details of their thought life." Pretty simple: legal barriers to revealing that information creates an open space…

Binance, Coinbase, et al: "We'd like new rules from the SEC/CFTC to let us crime." SEC: "No." Binance et al: "You're stopping innovation!" SEC: "You're going to jail."

He got the payout of $480m as a settlement for stepping down. But he also got a $1b when Softbank bought out shareholders: "Neumann led WeWork to a failed attempt at an initial pub…

VCs talk a game about being ethical, but let's be real - if it works they probably don't care. Uber is a great example of this - the rules can be bent to serve the purpose.

I think that if you have free/easy money, with low risk of a meaningful downside (e.g. going to jail), and there is increasing competition from other VCs with access to the same mo…

I like the idea of there being some requirement on student spending for these educational institutions to maintain their tax-free status. Not dissimilar from requiring insurance pl…

As someone who was involved in the creation of Infini-D back in the day, I can only say that this brought a smile to my face and that I've shared it with the whole original team. T…

Many of the large companies will say "we have a complex sales cycle" (and they often do) and leverage multi-touch attribution models which removes the direct ROI calculation.

It wasn't the pricing model - when I went to the website originally all the pricing levels were the same - it looked like a template that hadn't been updated. I have no issue with …

Performance marketing is essentially the only way most startup marketers can go. The reason is that they generally have 6 to 12 months to prove themselves as performance marketers.…

"Also, as another member pointed out, Airbnb's performance marketing budget is still well over $200M/year, which no responsible/public company would spend if it wasn't returning a …

Natural outcome of all internet advertising based models imho.

This is the fundamental issue with all advertising-based models. Eventually, they all run into the problem of having to continue to grow. The only way to continue to grow is to dis…

Usegravity looks interesting - but the pricing page really made me stop taking it seriously.

One interesting theory I've heard on this is that, given there are about 6400 accounts with 1000+ ETH, that these folks essentially don't recognize the amount of money they're usin…

Some compelling reasons - I think most of them can be addressed in Excel, but the reality is most people don't know how Excel really works or how to do anything complex in it. Havi…

I don't have this experience at all - first, I have slide decks that have 100s of slides and it works fine. I have no issue finding documents either - however I do struggle with th…

on24 is perhaps one of the worst events platforms I've every experienced or worked with. They seem to have changed little about their platform in a long time. More comparable would…