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If the rate drivers get paid is based off the price paid by riders, yeah, it is illegal what they are doing. If they only say it's a % of it, then you are correct

Yes. ROFR (right of first refusal) are almost always at the price of the shares purchased. This prevents people from just selling their shares on secondary markets without company …

Yeah, definitely a possible CLM here. I still am glad that things like this exist because I was part of a great startup with an awesome culture that became toxic. If it can help ot…

I used to track DynamoDB issues and holy crap, AWS East had a 1-2 hour outage at least every 2 weeks. Never in any of the other regions. AWS East is THA WURST

I'd point to Theranos and the secrecy they employed. They were acting poorly at a business model level but their culture was also supposedly not great

They did use standard channels. For years. And Uber execs kept being fuckwads about it. At some point, enough is enough. If you don't stand up against injustice, I don't want you w…

Literal interpretation. I would give him/her the benefit of the doubt and say meaning they keep flubbing like a bunch of fuckwads every chance they get

If someone misbehaves, you talk to them quietly first. If that doesn't work, you need to look at taking more drastic measures. Uber investors have been MUCH too quiet. I'd push LPs…

I wouldn't want to work with an investor who doesn't stand up for what they believe in. If you aren't fighting for building successful companies that also do it the right way, why …

Are they implying correlation or causation? It seems like you would need a control group with a psychological issue that doesn't do psychotherapy compared to one who does. If someo…

I work as a technical recruiter and have done tech related work since college (covering tech stocks, VC, working at a big data startup in ~6 different roles, and now). I think HN p…

Happy to chat about this if you want to learn more about Cassandra. shirleman@datastax.com