40acres

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by 40acres 4mo ago
After years of companies refusing to go public (looking at you Stripe), it's almost refreshing to see a hyped tech go actually IPO.
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by 40acres 3y ago
Someone framed debt to gdp ratio like this: if your debt is 150% of your GDP. It would take a year and a half to pay off your debt if all the national income (gdp) was allocated to payments. No obviously this isn’t a realistic policy - but
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by 40acres 3y ago
What does that have to do with the debt?
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by 40acres 3y ago
I’m not sure about this one - seems like it significantly reduces the value of data, which would have a downstream impact on the entire industry. I guess that’s what you intended, but my mind quickly went to a rabbit hole with the second or
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by 40acres 3y ago
The market is definitely there for enterprise LLMs. Everyone is using GPT for work. I use it to provide stubs for memos and to brainstorm - but the real value comes from replace internal “tribal knowledge” with an AI who knows your org in a
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by 40acres 3y ago
Some would say your first paragraph describes Apple.
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by 40acres 4y ago
Thanks. It’s a startup of about 100-150 people.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I was laid off in November - few false starts here and there but I start my new gig on the 20th. Better yet I have $20k left from severance which is really nice.
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by 40acres 4y ago
JK Rowling built a billion dollar children’s franchise shortly after Dahls death.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I don’t know how to quantify it but I have definitely noticed an increase in productivity. I don’t need my whole team in the office but a few key people once a week was a game changer.
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by 40acres 4y ago
Funnily enough I really like YouTube shorts. A lot of Tiktokers cross post and because of this I haven’t found a reason to download TikTok.
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by 40acres 4y ago
This is the exact same message Microsoft CEO said in his message. So yes MSFT is directing these layoffs.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I was laid off in November. I've applied to dozens, probably hundreds of jobs. I've had two interviews (one bigtechco) and a YC startup. Both did not work out as they went with more senior candidates. I decided to take a different
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by 40acres 4y ago
I still don’t get why it’s a problem. There should be an advantage in taking the investment needed required to go vertical and leverage that for your entire business.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I don't understand the anti-trust argument against Amazon Retail and AWS. Amazon Retail went vertical by building their own cloud solution and then sold that solution to customers - what's anti-trust about this?
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by 40acres 4y ago
I'd love to understand how the "Plus" naming convention became so popular.
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by 40acres 4y ago
Stripe has announced recent enterprise wins (Amazon, BMW) but these are negotiated deals with less margin. Seems like as they increase their share of enterprise they are simultaneously turning the screw on SMBs and start ups.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I can't wait.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I’ve been binging A History of Europe, Key Battles podcast which traces European History from Alexander to WW1. It really gives a great overview of European history and allows for one to see broad trends. For me, the Industrial Revolution i
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by 40acres 4y ago
Did the Stripe mafia tag this?
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by 40acres 4y ago
I don’t understand the criticism of the Dealbook interview. I want to hear SBF side and found that he’s definitely hanging himself with his public statements. If the media were to “deplatform” him that would be an incredible disservice. I t
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by 40acres 4y ago
I’ve been hearing this a lot and while GS is a huge part of SpaceX success this says nothing about Tesla and the way Elon has grown the company.
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by 40acres 4y ago
How embarrassing - VC over the past decade has simply been folks riding market beta, zirp and piggybacking on their friends deals. Maybe this market crunch will weed out the bad bunch but I’m not holding my breath.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I worked for the same large semiconductor company and saw the same thing play out. It was hinted to me by some mentors that I was in a good position because my manager was White as opposed to Indian or Chinese.
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by 40acres 4y ago
Kudos to Apple - I wonder how does this work in practice. Policing discrimination is difficult period, however for better or worse racial and gender discrimination have a visual impact which makes it somewhat easier to identify. From what I
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by 40acres 4y ago
This is interesting. I believe vegetarianism is higher caste but dessert is a tricky one.
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by 40acres 4y ago
How would a non Indian person even tell? Is it really all in the last name? I've worked with a fair amount of Indian folks with a wide variety of names - how would you even go about determining someone's caste? Based on this art
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by 40acres 4y ago
Casey Newton has been doing this lately with decent results.
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by 40acres 4y ago
Charles LeClerc: "first time"?
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by 40acres 4y ago
Can anyone with experience at Google actually explain what's going on here? Assuming that social apps roll up to the same VP or whatever -- shouldn't there have been a decision long ago to simply their app offerings? I can underst

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