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Our company has acquired 15+ smaller entities that all have different service desk providers (e.g. ServiceNow, Zendesk, Jira, Freshservice), 2 CRMs (HubSpot and Salesforce) and dif…

Who do you think backs those Clearco loans?

My 2 cents... you need to start doing cold sales and it'll be very difficult as you'll get flat-out rejected 95/100 times. Learning about sales will feel more productive and in you…

Zippin | https://www.getzippin.com/ | Toronto At Zippin we plan to banish standing in line—for good—with our checkout-free technology that’s easy and cost-effective for retailers t…

Have you tried using object attributes/features to enable tracking instead of IOU-based tracking? I suspect this tracker falls apart when there are significant obstructions. Though…

They generate ~$100 ARPU on US users. https://digiday.com/marketing/facebooks-making-money-per-use...

Why would they pay you for your data? How much is it worth? If you click on 0 ads per year, you generate $0 for Facebook and therefore your data is worth $0. For a personally targe…

Passenger AI | ML & CV Engineer | Toronto, Onsite | $110-150K + 0.2-1.0% equity Passenger AI builds remote monitoring tools for autonomous taxis and shuttles. We’re looking for a c…

Passenger AI | Toronto | $100-160K + 0.1-1.0% equity | Full-time Onsite I’m the founder/CEO. In 2017 I moved from startups in SF to Volkswagen in Detroit to learn about the massive…

By far the biggest problem in Toronto is that we do not have a deep startup tech talent pool. They all leave for the SFBay. Why? Startups here pay engineers 1/3 to half of what the…

I believe investors aim at ownership percentages at Series A mainly for pro-rata. Lead Series A investors usually get pro-rata rights. Generally, the wisdom in startup investment i…

Passenger AI | Toronto | $100-160K + 0.1-1.0% equity | Full-time Onsite I’m the founder/CEO. In 2017 I moved from startups in SF to Volkswagen in Detroit to learn about the trillio…

They do have an API Developer Platform ( https://developer.gm.com/ ) but you have to apply. For some other car companies, you can use www.smartcar.com. There are some ISO complianc…

Passenger AI | Toronto, Canada | 100-160K + 0.1-0.75% equity | Full-time Onsite Passenger AI is building one of the other components essential to launch robotaxi operations: remote…

Waymo will be first to market and will not likely sell their self-driving software to other would-be rideshare players (or their suppliers) for several years. All other OEMs, Tier …

I recently moved back from the US (SF then Detroit) to Toronto to start a new startup. I was shocked when some entrepreneurs were upset that an Amazon HQ2 may raise the prices on e…

Passenger AI | ML/Vision Engineer | Toronto | $90-$140K + 0.25-2.5% We build services for passenger safety in shared autonomous vehicles. We're a small team previously at VW and Ly…

Passenger AI | Developers | 1.5%+ equity + $90K-$150K | Toronto ONSITE We’re building teleoperations software for robotaxis. I'm a previous founder (UpOut) and have been working in…

8 points by martinshen 30 days ago | parent [-] | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018) Volkswagen | Detroit Metro Area | Full Time, ONSITE I moved from SF startups to Detroit …

Honestly a lot of these "global" rating systems are ridiculous. The US easily produces the most innovation globally. This is similar to ranking systems that consider McGill the Har…

Volkswagen | Detroit Metro Area | Full Time, ONSITE I moved from SF startups to Detroit to join Volkswagen Connected Services. Here, I have the autonomy to build out mobility produ…

Can someone explain to me why eBay is trading only at 5.5x P/E? I fully understand that it isn't growing tremendously but with all its classified assets, I can't help but feel that…