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by c2 12y ago
Yeah and in the very next paragraph, he gets intimidated by a truck driver being annoyed that they are driving 63 mph, so decide.... to slam on the accelerator and go so fast they no longer see the truck's headlights on the flat desert
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by c2 13y ago
It's patently false the claim that individual investors generally don't beat the market, or that the ones that do only do so by chance. Warren Buffet, a very famous investor you may have heard of, even mentions that he knows plent
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by c2 13y ago
Sure, it's something the CFO thinks about, but it isn't really something that plays a factor into decisions about how to run the business for other C-level executives.
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by c2 13y ago
I would say his industrial design experience at Segway (and Deka) was more relevant to Apple. Let's not forget history here. Musk had a very hard time releasing the Roadster, and it was one of the most painfully delayed automotive laun
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by c2 13y ago
I missed it the first time through, although I'm not surprised as in the article his previous automobile engineering experience seems downplayed. Equating his segway experience to all of transportation seems a stretch. According to his
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by c2 13y ago
It seems like the trend lately is to float a tiny amount of shares to the public. From my perspective this creates an artificial supply problem for the stock and makes higher valuations easier as you need less institutional buy in to mainta
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by c2 13y ago
Interesting move. While I can see some overlap in experience leading large technical projects where industrial design and battery life are of paramount importance, I wonder how much of that experience will translate into actual car developm
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by c2 14y ago
I agree but it's inevitable. The creators are busy creating, and the fact that there is no shortage of "non-creators defined by their taste" (who also have an abundance of free time) - means it is a bit of a hopeless battle maintaining the
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by c2 14y ago
Also be wary about anecdotes from previous employees who feel slighted by the company, because they are usually passionately vitriolic and have a bone to pick :)
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by c2 14y ago
Tesla Roadster's have been on the roads now for 6 years, and I think you'll find it is pretty hard to find one at any significant discount off it's MSRP. Tesla also offered a $12000 replacement plan for the Tesla Roadsters, so you could get
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by c2 14y ago
Sounds like you just had a bad manager. At a big company (like Amazon) there are good managers and bad managers. I'm sure your opinion would be different if you actually made it to the AWS group like you wanted. You're turning a bad experie
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by c2 14y ago
CEOs in general tend to be hard to work with. There are also anecdotes about Gates being rude. Further, I would say the people who want to judge a character by a few anecdotes are being lazy, small minded, and short sighted. Jobs, Gates, an
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Sandberg addresses HBS '12: "Find a rocket ship"(youtube.com)
1 points by c2 14y ago|0 comments
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by c2 14y ago
No one's lunch was eaten by Wii. I think by now it's pretty much been concluded that Wii was an alternative to the PS3/XBOX demographic (that is, people interested in PS3/XBOX also bought Wii), and that Wii itself brought a lot of new playe
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by c2 14y ago
It's good to hear from YC founders that they don't see the negative impacts. I can certainly understand why the hype machine is, at least in the short term, valuable to both Sequoia and YC. It helps raise the profile of YC and causes valuat
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by c2 14y ago
I'm sure Sequoia has a laundry list of valuable connections for any YC start up. I just wonder whether contributing to an atmosphere of "frenzied investors" like the original article alludes to is helping or ultimately could wind up hurting
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by c2 14y ago
Might be unrelated but I've noticed an awful lot of YC "hype" (press, news, coverage) since the Sequoia investment. I hope Sequoia is not being a negative influence to YC by dis-proportionally "banging the drums" and ultimately being a dist
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by c2 15y ago
Another common aspect of human nature: Interpreting people in the worst possible way. My opinion of Google has turned from positive to negative in the last 5 years, and it has nothing to do with how big or successful they are.
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by c2 15y ago
Pretty relevant example, as Eastman Kodak just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection just last week.
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by c2 15y ago
This review is pretty over the top negative. Not saying it's wrong, but the product has over a thousand reviews on Amazon.com and the average is four stars. You can always take a trip out to best buy/target/etc. to play with it.
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by c2 15y ago
In my 3 or so years as a Netflix subscriber I have noticed an extremely disturbing trend of Netflix killing useful features simply because they aren't good for the business. I can think of 2 off the top of my head: - You used to be able to
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by c2 15y ago
Agreed. It seems for all the vitriol against AirBnb, there seems to be a vitriol against the criticism of AirBnb as well. Either way, all the articles, from TechCrunch and on Hacker News, have been useful to me in understanding both the iss
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by c2 15y ago
Google has a support problem. I'm amazed after almost a decade of offering services like email and advertising, they still haven't done anything to develop a reasonable support system for customers to address issues like this. Maybe they ha
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by c2 15y ago
One decade is great. Plenty of companies have had their one decade in the sun - Microsoft, Cisco, IBM... Standard Oil. I think your comment is a bit of hyperbole, the success of a company like Apple is not unprecedented in history. Apple co
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by c2 15y ago
To be fair, people have been predicting both sides of the coin for a while. People predicting success on hacker news tend to get upvoted, and people predicting failure tend to be downvoted, regardless of the reality of the situation. Right
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by c2 15y ago
MySQL and PHP were terrible technologies even in 2005. Maybe if Facebook started in 1999 they might have an excuse (even then it's debatable) but 2005? Also, architecturally there's no reason to do a massive re-write of any software all at
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by c2 15y ago
There is a great many lines of text written about tech giants like Google and Microsoft, but at the end of the day the reality is more simple then interesting. I remember Wired ran a similarly article about Microsoft some years ago (Linux,
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by c2 15y ago
To answer questions about stock - most employees won't care. As far as I know - the last time they were planning to go public only the senior executives were issued any options/stock grants. There was no standard practice of issuing stock t
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by c2 15y ago
This seems night and day to GroupOn's S-1. A solid sustainable business, plenty of cash on hand which is growing every quarter, and a clear path forward to continue their phenomenal growth. There are plenty of risks of course, not the least
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How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years(wired.com)
1 points by c2 15y ago|0 comments

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