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If you talk to people at Microsoft, Satya has also turned around a lot of the internal culture from the Ballmer days. This included getting rid of some of those division heads you …

If you squint, you can see the Minecraft fit: along with the Xbox side, it's quasi "coding" or "developing" for kids. Basically, you hook the kids who are interested in developing …

I thought this was a pretty fair article that rightly addressed some of the major structural issues with remote work as it currently is set up. I've worked remotely for ~5 years an…

I think there's definitely value in disconnecting and "living in the moment" but let's not pretend smartphones haven't improved many aspects of travel. Google Maps alone has saved …

This is trying to be too clever by a half with the semantics. When people say they're going to Uber somewhere, they're not saying they're going to use a post-paid software to conne…

I agree with some of the other replies: nowadays, AirBnB rarely has a price advantage once you factor in the extra fees. It still wins in terms of uniqueness, for large groups, if …

Totally agree. Besides, if we're talking semantics, shouldn't it be "people, not humans." Yes, these users are human beings but outside of academic settings, who ever calls someone…

"Presumably all of those costs would disappear once someone wins the market or a "truce" is called." I'm not sure any single company ever truly wins this market because, as others …

"Highly valued companies typically grow quickly or generate big profits -- and great ones do both. In the fourth quarter of 2005, Amazon.com Inc. had about the same revenue as Uber…

As a capable yet ambition-less high schooler, community college saved my family tens of thousands of dollars. I do sometimes wonder if I missed something with the dorm experience b…

According to one analysis, Google has over 90% of the global search market. What's crazy is that its market share includes virtually 0 in China, where it backed out/was forced out.…

> that social science tells us that diversity is probably a net loss: The author of that study doesn't come to that conclusion: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/robert-pu…

I'm in the same boat for the first part. I'll be thumbing through my feed and see some quasi-interesting video but no matter how great it is, when I see that "about to start ad" te…

Didn't always agree with his policies or politics but sad to see this. Condolences to his families. As for London Breed, I've met her a few times at community gatherings. She seems…

While I'm bullish that self-driving will happen in our lifetimes, I think there are a lot of challenges that many are underestimating. This includes the actual technology—this is o…

But importantly, the government went after Microsoft for anti-trust and actually won even if they didn't break them up. It's impossible to really know the counter-factual of what w…

Question: is a 1% chance at becoming a unicorn higher or lower than before? I mean, the vast majority of startups fail. 1% actually seems high to me

Really interesting article but he really zoomed past the "I got a free mattress" part

Tell that to the President

This is a great hard analysis of evaluating opportunities but I am struck that there's not even a crack at evaluating the human interaction element of personal fit. Working for shi…

From a pure strategy perspective, it's also quite brilliant. Without a real app store of its own, they don't have the directional data that the App Store or Google Play have. It's …

It's been great to read this thread. I never understood the value. As someone who can cook and grocery shop decently, it's not cheaper and only marginally better than what I normal…