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Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by TallGuyShort »

blattimwind wrote: post #13
seba_dos1 wrote: post #3

"Make money".

And it doesn't matter.

In all seriousness, most Silicon Valley "why we truly matter pitches" are just shovels full of something.

We'd probably be making bigger differences in the world if we contented ourselves with making a living, and then stepping away from our keyboards to go befriend people who are going through hard times and serve our immediate communities more directly.

Making money matters if it enables you to turn around and help other people directly and immediately.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by mattm »

pmiller2 wrote: post #18
aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with it being a Canadian company?

I live in the US, specifically the Bay Area. Based on past experience, it’s unlikely Mixnode could pay me a salary anywhere close to what I could earn here, even after factoring in cost of living. Emigrating is also not practical, even if getting a visa wasn’t a problem. I live in the East Bay. Here is a cost comparison between Oakland, CA and vancouy, BC: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou.…

As a Canadian who moved to the Bay area, this is true. Finding a Canadian company that is going to be competitive with Bay area salaries is almost impossible even if their revenue is in USD.

Even large US companies generally require internal transfer to Canada to take a pay cut in addition to changing to Canadian dollars.

To make it worse, Vancouver has a high cost of living but low salaries.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by wrs »

I’m cofounder/CTO at CareZone (.com). Our mission is to help people care for themselves and their families.

The US health care system is disorganized, inefficient, and overwhelming for patients and their families. We aren’t “solving healthcare”, but we provide tools and services that make caregivers’ lives easier.

This matters not just for the obvious reason that so many people need help, but because relatively little effort in the health care system goes into helping patients and their caregivers with the responsibilities the system dumps on them.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by quantisan »

At https://ingrower.com, we provide a farm management app with human-expert assistance for smallholder farmers in East Africa. There are 500 million smallholder farmers in the world today. Most are operated by women of the house in developing countries growing greens or raising chickens in their homes. Imagine enabling some of them to generate an income with their smallholding farms. That's what we're trying to do at InGrower.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by rudolph9 »

Enable community driven coordination of distributed enegery production and consumption. Basically virtual power plants operating on the edge of our grid.

Heat, refrigeration, lights, etc are at the foundation of modern society. The foundation of modern society is driven by the distribution of energy. Helping ensure energy sources at the edge of our grid achieve scalability and fault tolerance strikes me as something that truly matters.

LO3 Energy

The company has been around for some time but recently underwent rapid growth. I started as a part time remote contracted and was the first software engineer to be brought on full time.

It’s been a lot of work and there is still a long way to go but the thing that keeps me chugging is the people involved. We’ve attracted a powerhouse of a team both on the business and engineering side. Further, I’ve never worked with a more genuine and kind group of individuals before.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by moneytide1 »

rudolph9 wrote: post #45

Enable community driven coordination of distributed enegery production and consumption. Basically virtual power plants operating on the edge of our grid. Heat, refrigeration, lights, etc are at the foundation of modern society. The foundation of modern society is driven by the distribution of energy. Helping ensure energy sources at the edge of our grid achieve scalability and fault tolerance strikes me as something…

I'm reading about your Allgau microgrid, and it looks like it may have been chosen as a pilot because some feed-in tariffs are expiring. Is the idea here to effectively bypass the utility company (even though there is a partnership for this pilot) so that energy consumers end up directly paying each other through the blockchain ledger?

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by danidan11 »

I'm building HuggyList. Our mission is to provide condensed knowledge for busy professionals.

It truly matters because it makes learning much easier for people who lack of time. This helps everyone to make better decisions and have a greater impact.

As an example, here is some YC startup knowledge summarized in bullet points: https://huggylist.com/channel_lists/1537220271873x5642096565...

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by moneytide1 »

nikivi wrote: post #11

I am working on Learn Anything. It’s an open source website with the goal of providing most efficient learning paths. A kind of Netflix for learning. If humanity really solves personalized learning by crafting learning paths based on all of Internet’s resources, user’s current knowledge and learning preference, I believe something akin to singularity may be reached. So I am trying to build the website that tries to r…

Interesting idea. Being able to navigate the massive amounts of information on the Internet is a skill in itself. Sounds like your group creating a sort of Driver's Ed to absorb quicker.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by moneytide1 »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #41
blattimwind wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it doesn't matter.

In all seriousness, most Silicon Valley "why we truly matter pitches" are just shovels full of something. We'd probably be making bigger differences in the world if we contented ourselves with making a living, and then stepping away from our keyboards to go befriend people who are going through hard times and serve our immediate communities more directly. Making money matters if it enables you to turn around and help…

> befriend people who are going through hard times and serve our immediate communities more directly.

Makes me think of the insurance policy of the Amish - if someone's home burns down, it is a guarantee that everyone in the community will come together to build a new house for them.

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