amitagrawal

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DOJ subpoenas Nvidia wiping out $265B in value(finance.yahoo.com)
5 points by amitagrawal 2y ago|1 comments
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Google employees push back on nickle and diming from Sundar Pichai(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by amitagrawal 4y ago|0 comments
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by amitagrawal 8y ago
I wish it were that simple but I find your analysis highly flawed. The early employees, founders and investors risked a big chunk of their resources and hence played a huge part in the creation of the company and are all the beneficiaries o
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by amitagrawal 9y ago
Argentina is not particularly a glowing example of an entity with such a long investment horizon given how frequently they've defaulted on their debt.
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by amitagrawal 10y ago
Quick Service Restaurant industry one of the most competitive. The reason why they were able to increase productivity and product quality might be because when you focus on a few core metrics like serving time and food prices it doesn'
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by amitagrawal 11y ago
It is basically due to their ownership in Alibaba.
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by amitagrawal 12y ago
First, the appointment of Condoleezza Rice to their board and now accessing and uploading folder information without explicit permissions! I'm going to stop using Dropbox now.
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'Don't Be Evil': Google Uses Its Power Justly, But We Should All Be Afraid(forbes.com)
6 points by amitagrawal 12y ago|1 comments
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by amitagrawal 12y ago
Maybe the only thing common between Instagram and Oculus is the investor (Andreessen) and the acquirer (FB)..oh and that Mark Andreessen was a board member during both the acquisitions!
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by amitagrawal 13y ago
Adam Smith would disagree.
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by amitagrawal 13y ago
I think (and a lot of other would agree with me on this) that the Xbox division within Microsoft is the most customer-centric of any company in the entire world. The people at Xbox are die hard gamers who really want to help you solve your
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by amitagrawal 13y ago
That's probably one of the reasons why Amazon has been undercutting almost everyone time & time again. With their razon thin margins they have nowhere to go but up. Even when they don't go down as much as the markets think the
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by amitagrawal 13y ago
"Management teams of well-run companies spend very little time thinking about the formal financial statements." Not true at all. Well run companies do spend a lot of time in preparing their financial statements. First, it is requi
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by amitagrawal 13y ago
Actually it's Designed by Apple in California. But I agree with you I liked it better when it was subtle.
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by amitagrawal 14y ago
With this decision, I have now come to believe that Google is not the company that it used to be in the past. The user-friendly company with a quirky personality. Somewhere in the mindless fighting with becoming the dominant social and mobi
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Inside Microsoft's cauldron of ideas(techcrunch.com)
9 points by amitagrawal 14y ago|3 comments
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by amitagrawal 14y ago
Perhaps he's the only CEO right now that has audacious plans for the future, just like Steve! RIP Steve
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by amitagrawal 14y ago
I study in one of the largest universities in India. It is also fairly reputed within the country as well as outside. During my 2nd year of engineering we had to complete a programming "mini project". If you're familiar with these you may k
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by amitagrawal 14y ago
If you come from a poor financial background, wouldn't it be good financial (and common) sense to accept the scholarship? And as hashpipe rightly said, by turning down your reservation seat you probably let a less deserving (mark wise) rese
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by amitagrawal 14y ago
Luck is very real. Luck not as in winning a lottery but the place you're born, the kind of people in your family who support you in your endeavors, the talented people you get to surround with - it's all luck. Luck is not everything, but a
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by amitagrawal 14y ago
Within the same industry there are people like Dan Porter and Notch. Both are at the top of their game. With one major difference.. One bad mouths a former employee because he refused to join the acquirer on grounds of principles. The other
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Half of China's millionaires want to leave country(business.blogs.cnn.com)
186 points by amitagrawal 15y ago|104 comments
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
FatCow isn't different. I've promoted their hosting services and they've consistently refused to pay me around $1K. The only reason I've not brought their actions to light is that I still have some months before my account there expires and
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
A division that is bleeding cash doesn't mean that it should be sold off or closed down. Sometimes, products that don't make money or even make losses are part of a bigger strategy. Look at Google, no one knows if YouTube is still profitabl
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
This looks like a nice number . How do you advertise your product?
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
I think Facebook's primary source of revenue is advertising too. Facebook is taking the stance what Microsoft took a few years ago - getting in the way of it's users and making choices on behalf of them. On the other hand by being open, Goo
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
I agree. Those numbers are pretty good even for an AdWords advertiser. And the fact that you've been able to scale it really well is even more praise-worthy. Do you have a blog/website that I can follow?
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
CTR matters for a couple of important reasons - profits & relevance. Google, Facebook, Bing, etc use it directly to make more money on the same number of ad impressions. Let's suppose there are 2 advertisers - Andy who bids $1/click has
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
Happy Birthday, Ed! The knowledge which is packed in the book will save a lot of blood, sweat and tears in the coming years down the line. You're truly a blessing!
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by amitagrawal 15y ago
Stuff like this should be made a compulsive reading for hackers. This solves a very basic problem with hacker-related knowledge - you don't know what to search until you know what to search! And books like Ed's solve this by compiling it al

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