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yosho

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    Comment #39306791

    I'm not sure why this is news. Planes have had first, business and economy classes since as long as I can remember, and everyone knows the feeling of walking through business class…

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    Comment #37679450

    I'm a $5m+ Amazon seller here, so many wrong assumptions in the comments, hard to know where to begin... - Firstly, not every Amazon seller is a drop shipper, or private label prod…

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    Comment #33643972

    36 year old here, I've gotten Diamond in both Overwatch and Apex Legends and was an LEM CSGO player. - I don't think reaction times matter as much as people think it does, position…

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    Comment #25084657

    Are you always this cynical? There are plenty of good tech companies that have IPO'd recently: Snowflake, Unity, Corsair to name a few. I'm sure all three of those will do well in …

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    Comment #25030566

    Is a fetus considered a human baby? This is one of those 2 sided debates that regularly occurs and the problem is that no amount of science will be able to give a definitive answer…

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    Comment #24643711

    Options aren't gambling, they're typically used to hedge your position, hence the 100:1 leverage. You can easily hedge out entire positions with just a few contracts.

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    Comment #23891472

    It's not really a question of values because depending on what the actual death rate actually is, you can make informed objectionable decisions based off of it that two rational pe…

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    Comment #20972437

    Look up FatFIRE, I think people on HN would be more aligned with that philosophy rather than regular FIRE.

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    Comment #19649545

    As a founder that has built a VC backed business to $XXXM in revenue and now as a founder that has built a bootstrapped business to $XM in revenue I guess I'm in a unique position …

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    Comment #19303275

    Try fishing, one of my favorite hobbies for relaxing.

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    Comment #18980187

    The title of that article is some serious sensationalism. I wonder if journalists during the race to the moon wrote articles like that back then, telling NASA that working so hard …

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    Comment #18923712

    I think the deck pretty much just shows that the best way to raise $66M is to build a successful and growing company.

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    Comment #18658186

    Getting a 404, anyone else?

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    Comment #18260611

    Your profit should always cover your customer acquisition cost. If it does, congratulations keep spending and grow the customer base and start scaling. If it doesn't, refine your b…

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    Comment #16869634

    We applied I think in 2010, got rejected. This was when YC was still fairly young. so arguably competition was even less than it is today. Our company now does over $100M ARR and s…

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    Comment #16539112

    The James Damore Google manifesto and the Youtube creator demonetization censorship comes to mind right now. Granted that's only one company, Google, but I think there's a general …

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    Comment #16538958

    I, for one, applaud FB's decision to keep him on the board. A lot has been said about this already, but it's true that Silicon Valley is an echo chamber that tends to push out diss…

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    Comment #15910031

    One of the better fundraising guides out there for sure.

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    Comment #15597380

    Yeah there's definitely some things that are taboo to talk about because it's too political. I for one, am a liberal gun owner, which gives me a unique perspective in that I unders…

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    Comment #11919187

    My team and I were rejected back in the day for our first startup idea, which ultimately didn't work but we eventually pivoted to a company now doing $100M+ in annual revenues. I d…

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    Comment #9305909

    Touch of Modern - Frontend, Backend, or Mobile Engineers - San Francisco, CA - full-time We're the fastest growing men's ecommerce 2.0 website. We're focused around modern lifestyl…

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    Comment #8524532

    My team and I got rejected in 2010. We're still working together and we're generating mid 8 figure revenues now. So it's definitely not the end of the world and the silicon valley …

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    Comment #6350756

    Anyone know the details of what happened? Can someone elaborate on this?