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David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by mrkurt »

brandnewlow wrote: post #12
jpeg_hero wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And while putting better more interesting potential opportunities on hold. Yeah, news here is Sacks thinks this is no longer the number one opportunity in the valley. Probably when they turned their back on the enterprise market. And now internal numbers might not show rocket ship growth in SMB market. Can't "push" into 20 employee companies, and the "pull" must not be there.

Meanwhile, Gusto's software is really excellent. I started using it a few months ago and it's one of the best business apps I've ever seen in terms of thoughtfulness-of-UI.

No kidding. The HR / legal stuff available to startups now is such a boon.

Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by gist »

jasonjei wrote: post #32
ENOTTY wrote: post #27

Apparently he's joining Thiel and the Trump team http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/technology/zenefits-chief-...

Politics aside and whatever one's thoughts are on Donald Trump, I think it's good that a leader like Mr. Sacks is joining government.

> and whatever one's thoughts are on Donald Trump

I wonder why it's always necessary when mentioning Trump (anywhere not just HN) to say something like that which sounds like an apology.

Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by jasonjei »

gist wrote: post #33
jasonjei wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Politics aside and whatever one's thoughts are on Donald Trump, I think it's good that a leader like Mr. Sacks is joining government.

> and whatever one's thoughts are on Donald Trump I wonder why it's always necessary when mentioning Trump (anywhere not just HN) to say something like that which sounds like an apology.

I think because Trump is not a middle ground for most people. It's almost one of those topics you try not to bring up for fear that you would offend somebody whether you drop criticism or praise.

Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by wayn3 »

wpietri wrote: post #30
wayn3 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its the newspapers who will realize that the free lunc his over when nobody needs their crap anymore. Put up paywalls and dont even make it remotely easy to actually pay. Then bitch about you not having an account, still want you to click on a thousand facebook and twitter links and have ads that slow the site down to a standstill and what not. Newspapers are really not having it easy huh. Throughout the web, you eit…

> Its the newspapers who will realize that the free lunc his over when nobody needs their crap anymore. I'm just amazed that you can expect the 5,000 people at the Wall Street Journal to work for you for free, and then accuse them of pursuing a "free lunc".

found a misspell. ouch.

Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by idlewords »

jasonjei wrote: post #32
ENOTTY wrote: post #27

Apparently he's joining Thiel and the Trump team http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/technology/zenefits-chief-...

Politics aside and whatever one's thoughts are on Donald Trump, I think it's good that a leader like Mr. Sacks is joining government.

You can't put politics aside in this situation. You either collaborate, or you don't.

Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by MarkCole »

Chickenosaurus wrote: post #28
MarkCole wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that is strictly true. I live in Germany and the web link gives me WSJ with no pay wall.

Your comment sparked my interest. After playing around a bit, it seems Firefox users get the paywall while Chrome users do not.

I tried it too, same result. Very interesting.

Re: David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO

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Post by manigandham »

Chickenosaurus wrote: post #28
MarkCole wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that is strictly true. I live in Germany and the web link gives me WSJ with no pay wall.

Your comment sparked my interest. After playing around a bit, it seems Firefox users get the paywall while Chrome users do not.

Firefox has some built-in "tracking protection" that might not send referer headers.
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