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There isn't a winner and there likely won't be one (at least not for a long time). Tabular will likely be acquired by Snowflake and the two industry behemoths now back their own fo…

Also curious! But even that does help to appreciate what a 1:4800 chance something is. I really like that frame of reference.

The Rehearsal (and Finding Frances) is with Synecdoche, New York in the bucket of "I didn't know art could do that". I was just in complete awe of what he did with with both of tho…

I also found found it incredibly hard to watch, and was also ruined me for days if not weeks. In fact, I think a certain part of me has been permanently changed. And that is exactl…

I'm a huge fan of Kaufman's work but only recently saw Synecdoche, New York, which immediately became my favorite movie, ever. That led me down a rabbit hole of listening to basica…

Not the first one and certainly not the last...

> half of them were psychologically incapable of staying in a cushy mid-six comp position at a big company, even when they had the chops. It's part of what drove them to do somethi…

Using founders of $1B+ companies is absolutely using outliers and is evaluating survivorship bias. As it relates to this article, a $1B+ company generally has product market fit an…

Pitbull ownership is a contentious subject and just overall a very shitty situation. I've seen a pitbull kill another dog and two other pitbulls attack children. That lead me to lo…

You're actually proving the exact opposite of your initial claim, but at least you are now teasing out the confounding variables that actually explain this. There is no significant…

I'm a founder that let starting a startup wreak massive havoc on his marriage. This shit is real. My suggestion to anyone in a serious relationship that is starting a business: Cof…

What does "Pull the other one" mean in reply to "forgot they used the service"?

Are you implying all companies that have an open core model are using "bait and switch" tactics? Would pointing you to the dozens of publicly traded companies with open core models…

I don't disagree, but was there something in this post that suggested their monetization strategy was support and consulting? I do see they are going to be focused on "ethical mone…

I'll second the opinion of having your contracts reviewed, but will curb some expectations: most contracts (NDAs, employment agreements, home contracts etc) are fairly standard. Th…

This just hit as probably the most powerful comment I've read on here in the 15 years I've been reading. Wow. Regretfully, I can think of dozens of {tools|processes|concepts} I tre…

I'm surprised how often I speak to technical teams that do not utilize PagerDuty (or an equivalent alternative). As PagerDuty integrates with nearly any external system, it separat…

Exactly. I'm not sure what the appeal of these crossovers are (they're effectively small sedans on the Chassis of a small SUV) but at that price point, just get a foreign sedan tha…

That sounds nice in theory, but in reality, whether you raise from a firm of three partners or 300, you're going to work very closely with a single partner, and his or her competen…

Unless the product is like still in development, right? We're getting flooded with products that are just thin veneers over ChatGPT, which is fine. But some products require cleari…

I watch a YouTube channel that frequently features a guest from New Zealand, and in every video in which he appears, different people in the background will parrot the guest after …

It's plausible that a handful of these new startups can define themselves as the next generation software of their industry, but I'm not sure many of these startups will make out o…

simplified: Exchanges are a group of public companies. Each company has a market capitalization, calculated by the number of shares * the share price. Apple's individual market cap…

This sounds like the modern version of the apocryphal 1902 quote of Charles Holland Duell (Patent Office Commissioner): "Everything that can be invented has been invented" The econ…