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This also happened with a piece of shit OTC Facebook app developer called SNAP Interactive when Snapchat was going IPO. I met their CEO at a conference in NYC, and he literally had…

None of those things strike as 1) important or 2) indicative of a high-performing product development team given their size. But we can agree to disagree!

I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these peop…

I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these peop…

I'm increasingly of the opinion that technology like this will never see broad regulatory approval. I just can't see an argument where any agency will be comfortable with acceptabl…

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Sure. But in my experience, the amount in which investors posture that they're contrarian and look for unconventional opportunities versus how much they actually do is quite notabl…

Companies who raise $75mm don't lay off massive chunks of their workforce because they found product-market fit. Justin raised $75mm because he's Justin, and for all VCs posture li…

Ehhhhhhhh. Auren ran one of the shadiest companies in recent history (Rapleaf) and he's discussing Thiel, who in my opinion was completely in the wrong w/r/t Gawker and is incredib…

Hi everyone. Going anon for obvious reasons. I'm a C-Level exec who just got semi-mutually moved from my position. It wasn't a good fit, but sucks nonetheless. Anyway, I get a dece…

Plenty of current athletes with lots of money to burn as well. I can count on one hand how many cases I've seen an athlete actually be value-add; in most cases they're the dumbest …

Great, but how does that impact you? How are you going to edge companies who are much larger than you, for the finite number of skins allowed in each state? What's your plan for wo…

Posting anon due to industry reasons. How in the world was this invested in? 1. It's unclear how, at least in the context of March Madness, this is preferable to any number of alte…

Moot is a candy-ass roody-poo cuck. POOL'S CLOSED, DESU

Hi everyone! Well, thank you for all of the comments - didn't expect my short little tale to be that interesting :) As for me, it worked out - soon after arriving in NYC, I took a …

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in …