This person has a history of failures venturing on their own.
How she gets any investment going anymore is a great mystery.
People still give Adam Neumann money
Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
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Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typos and grammatical errors are common in journalism nowadays, even with formerly respected organizations like APNews.
I think they're pointing out that the sentence is symmetric. "That product saw little adoption" - "and pretty much languished." "privacy concerns" - "about privacy"
Tautologically redundant is how I’ve heard other professional writers older and wiser than I am refer to this occurrence.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#53"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company". Under what conditions is it better to buy the assets and hire the employees instead of just change the name and product offering of the company? Is it just to get the investors off the cap tabl…
Ostensibly, it is in what you left out of your question? If you can buy the assets, specifically, you can not buy the liabilities. Obviously, getting some people off of obligation lists is one of them. There could be others?
Is it not illegal in the US to break up a company to isolate liabilities?
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#54First a contacts app that bombed, and now an ai assistant? I fear she’s stuck in the past and now is in a beyond crowded space. Have any of her attempts post google worked?
It depends on what you think she is attempting. If you consider that she is attempting to maintain a certain standard of living, then yes, it is working. There is a strange reality where you can get other people to pay you millions of dollars a year because somebody else previously paid you millions of dollars a year. You might have to keep shuffling who pays you, though.
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're pointing out that the sentence is symmetric. "That product saw little adoption" - "and pretty much languished." "privacy concerns" - "about privacy"
Tautologically redundant is how I’ve heard other professional writers older and wiser than I am refer to this occurrence.
I really enjoy how that phrase is also an example of itself- such a great term!
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#56"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company". Under what conditions is it better to buy the assets and hire the employees instead of just change the name and product offering of the company? Is it just to get the investors off the cap tabl…
the old "burn down the restaurant to avoid taxes, build new restaurant under another name" play common here in the San Gabriel valley area...
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#57"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished." - A professional writer
Typos and grammatical errors are common in journalism nowadays, even with formerly respected organizations like APNews.
It's crossed my mind that a couple of a certain class of typos in a document has become a signal of authenticity. It's only a matter of time* before we see prompting or even manual editing adapt to falsify that signal.
* before this comment gets a single upvote, somebody will have vibe-coded this
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're pointing out that the sentence is symmetric. "That product saw little adoption" - "and pretty much languished." "privacy concerns" - "about privacy"
Tautologically redundant is how I’ve heard other professional writers older and wiser than I am refer to this occurrence.
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Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#59"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company". Under what conditions is it better to buy the assets and hire the employees instead of just change the name and product offering of the company? Is it just to get the investors off the cap tabl…
Because you can get rid of liabilities...
Re: Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
The AI would, hands down, write a better sentence if you compared the output quality of an author writing 10,000 words per day with an AI writing 10,000 words per day. Or make the AI write 100,000 words per day, it could write sentences better than that 24/7 without breaking a sweat, while the human would literally be incapable of achieving this goal. But if you gave both a month to write the best 400 word article th…
> But if you gave both a month to write the best 400 word article they could possibly generate on a particular subject, the human author would dominate. What proof is there for this?
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