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raviparikh
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About raviparikh
Prev founder @ https://heap.io/
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Comment #40988337
Whether covered under fair use or not, the laws around copyright today did not anticipate this use case. Congress should pass laws that clarify how data is and isn’t allowed to be …
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Comment #37216162
I make about $4,000 per million streams on Spotify for the tracks I’ve released independently. For label releases I make less, but the label promotes them so that sometimes results…
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Comment #36144374
Not sure if this is what you're implying, but I think it's a mistake to think of YC as a monolithic organization that makes decisions by saying, "idea X is good, we should fund tea…
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Comment #36144335
And similarly to climate, many people who signed this letter are academics who do not appear to have any financial incentive to push for government regulation.
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Comment #36143195
The richest person in the world, Elon Musk, is a climate entrepreneur who got there in part due to climate-driven government subsidies. Just because someone made money off it thoug…
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Comment #36142484
(Airplane founder here) Airplane isn't YC backed. Though interestingly my prior startup, Heap, went through YC and has tons of YC-backed competitors (Amplitude, Mixpanel, Posthog, …
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Comment #35649479
I'm one of the co-founders at Airplane - if you end up evaluating it, feel free to send me a note at ravi@airplane.dev if I can help. > I think there’s an opportunity to integrate …
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Comment #35443021
"haphazardly slapped together" describes ~99% of all startups that raise seed funding, and is often correlated with success.
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Comment #35366676
Yes, Cowen argues against the idea we can anticipate consequences of technological change, and the specific consequence he focuses on is the idea of existential risk stemming from …