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That description you have of quality inertia certainly seems applicable to other areas of life as well. I’m certainly seeing a few troubling issues brewing but don’t see as many pe…

We did this at DigitalOcean for similar reasons, wasn't a feature that was commonly used. Additionally, when you set that limit people then get upset because usually when they go o…

Yeah definitely not a good sign for Twilio - the tried and true playbook will now get executed once again. Fire a bunch of people, especially those that are most tenured and have t…

Cofounder of DigitalOcean here, I might have some relevant experience =] Started in the web hosting space 20 years ago, back then it was just managed hosting, then virtualization, …

Anyone else think this has nothing to do with the regulatory agencies but instead the market has dramatically shifted in the past 15 months in terms of valuations and this is a nic…

While Linode is very well known amongst a set of developers the cross-section of customers that overlap between Linode and Akamai is very tiny. This acquisition was about selling a…

Sure the current management team is full of bean counters that aren't doing great at understanding product, but don't give the old management much credit. They completely missed th…

Is it possible yes. You do not need VC to go public. It’s not a requirement. Also this whole journey started a decade ago. There are many more avenues for liquidity and for raising…

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Hard work alone will not garauntee success, but I think there is also a tremendous amount of knowledge that you can pick up that a lot of entrepreneurs seem to ignore, that greatly…

I think there are several major lessons there that can be generalized to an extent. 1. If you don't have the funds to start a business directly, you may have to acquire them indire…

That’s become less and less true as the capital required to start a business has diminished and virtual products allow for rapid and unprecedented scale. For me and my brother we w…

You may have 3 out of 5 board votes, but unless you have complete control and full voting control they usually have carve outs like approving any change of control (aka selling the…

If you are testifying remotely, I suppose you are still under oath and have serious consequences for perjury ?

Seems like minimal overlap potentially if they were just using it for a theme, but the tone is a bit defensive, and I don't think that John was rude in his original tweets and more…

The reality of is that for profit insurance companies want an opaque and high pricing structure. This allows them to charge higher premiums across their entire set of customers mea…

This is great, one of the annoying bits of doing anything in Crypto has been buying Crypto in the first place, this certainly makes the whole process easier. And since Stripe is ha…

You are confusing Gemini Exchange with Genesis. Gemini Exchange for now is fine, but their earn product which actually works with Genesis (separate entity) is where withdrawals wer…

I think the reason that Elon Musk is doing all of these layoffs so brashly is because he essentially paid $44B for an asset that's worth $15B. That's a $30B hole he needs to climb …

Actually a pretty good idea. I think Sheryl Sandberg running Twitter would be a great idea. She definitely has a ton of experience, is used to dealing with complicated founders and…

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