aerosmile

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by aerosmile 2y ago
It’s amazing that Microsoft - given their focus on AI and decades of experience in spreadsheets - doesn’t offer this type of functionality. Corporate bureaucracy vs startup agility!
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by aerosmile 3y ago
Ok, reasonably well articulated argument, which I think says something along the line of "Sam Altman could have achieved his success more easily if he was born rich." I suppose that could be true, although you're certainly in
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by aerosmile 3y ago
This might change as the thread matures, but the first 10 comments were all exclusively disagreeing with the premise of the post in ways that made it clear that 1) the commenters didn't read the post, and 2) their arguments were highly
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by aerosmile 4y ago
The answer lies in the frequency of updates across the org. KRs in most orgs are reviewed on a quarterly basis, whereas marketing spend, conversions and similar need a weekly cadence. We are currently reporting on KRs on a weekly basis, but
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by aerosmile 4y ago
Any startup that will hire someone focused on resting and vesting hasn't figured out their hiring, which is a 100% indication that the vesting is not going to be valuable.
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by aerosmile 4y ago
I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic, because if so, you're nailing it. If not, literally every single argument you brought up is against the consensus in the YC community, which doesn't mean you're wrong, b
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by aerosmile 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by aerosmile 4y ago
Do you share that link with everyone who disagrees with you? It comes across as an overreaction. Another way to deal with critical feedback would be to understand it at a deeper level instead of being reactive. I’ll help you out. A bunch of
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by aerosmile 4y ago
Your reasoning in this discussion is unbecoming of a board member. In your activity on that board you’re involved in a lot of open-ended conversations with a lot of ambiguity and high cost of failure. I hope you express yourself in that set
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by aerosmile 4y ago
There are other sources of this exact same info, and this source is far more on the lean side then anything I’ve ever seen. It’s not something I can share because the subscription is not mine, but I am sure others can back me up on this.
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by aerosmile 4y ago
This is how fake news happens. I really wish we all took a bit more time to research things before we publish them, because I guarantee you there will be more people today running around and sharing this exact same fake news about founders
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by aerosmile 4y ago
In Clerky, you will find it under the section “Outside Activities.” Custom contracts may have a different name for that clause. 1 out of 10? Maybe if you’re in Hollywood or some other highly specialized vertical. In tech, it will be 99 out
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by aerosmile 4y ago
W-2 “freelance” in addition to W-2 “non-freelance” at the same time? In other words, you violated your employment agreement and got fired. The sad part is you still don’t quite understand the basics of W-2 and why you got fired in the first
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by aerosmile 4y ago
> Will a CEO work less hard if he (and his peers) can only ever gain $100M in net worth before a wealth tax on assets kicks in? I empathize with the quick back-of-the-napkin math ("if we could just take Bezos' money and give it
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by aerosmile 4y ago
People are comparing Trustpilot to Yelp, but having worked with both I can tell you that Trustpilot is far more evil for one simple reason: Trustpilot optimizes their SEO to rank for search terms that include the "negative review&q
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by aerosmile 4y ago
> They don't because part of the reason for their offices in these downtown location is rich people showing off to other rich people. You gotta "look" successful. If an office is moved to a less densely populated area, the
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by aerosmile 4y ago
It's not every day that you come across a company like this. You really have to give it to YC for supporting some of the most ambitious ideas that are not even within its wheelhouse. It's one thing to back an early quantum computi
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Heimdal (YC S21) builds the world’s cheapest direct air capture plant(fastcompany.com)
25 points by aerosmile 4y ago|16 comments
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by aerosmile 4y ago
You're confusing accounting expenses and the cost of running a business. Even personal taxes are a pain the US. So, yes, doing your own corporate taxes in the US is likely not a good idea, especially if you hire people across several s
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by aerosmile 4y ago
The American Dream is not about getting more for less, as in "most luxury for the least amount of effort." It's about having a shot at owning a business without the financial backing of a rich family [0], which is more like &
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by aerosmile 4y ago
The authors of that HBR article along with a few others [0][1] should be ashamed of themselves. They keep perpetuating a false narrative that really hurts our community's know-how in how to build and scale businesses. Why is it a false
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by aerosmile 4y ago
If I'll be accused of being grumpy for calling out some couch quarterback for bringing irrelevant arguments to squash down some developer's hopes and dreams, then so be it. You have to be really full of yourself to criticize someo
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by aerosmile 5y ago
When Putin was first elected two decades ago, a lot of my Austrian friends correctly saw in him a threat to Europe. I don't buy it that the German government didn't know him better than the average citizen did. They are just tryin
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by aerosmile 5y ago
There are a lot of things in this world that are not rooted in rational/pragmatic concerns. For example, in the automotive industry, a lot of the margin comes from upper-end variants of any given model, which are perhaps 10% more capab
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by aerosmile 5y ago
So many people offering explanations, and yet not a single one of them answers the OP's question. If you're upset that Intuit is engaging in lobbying (as you should be!), that might be an appropriate answer for a different questio
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Your data are only as valuable to Facebook as your buying power. Obviously that's not the same across all people, and while the average revenue per US user might be in the teens per month, many US consumer are in the single digits. So
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I agree that was a strong opening, and if turns out that this whole ordeal was a net positive event for Bolt, then it will have been entirely due to that one sentence. I imagine quite a few people on HN had never heard of Bolt before, and t
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by aerosmile 5y ago
"a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion." [1] That meaning is exactly that I was looking for. Many people, myself included, believe he's wrong. But what the hell do we know? It feels odd to be giving business advice
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Public fights can occasionally be net positive for one of the participants, but your arguments will be publicly scrutinized and they better be watertight. If the logic you presented is your best work, then I can easily see why you've e
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by aerosmile 5y ago
That's all we needed to know - your primary motivation is not the max salary you can get. On that note, more power to you, I truly believe you're more likely to lead a happy life than most people. But you're really not in a g

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