dougweltman

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by dougweltman 2y ago
InfoSum | London, UK | Full-time | Hybrid InfoSum is building data collaboration tools for the modern enterprise. This is a privacy-friendly way to power identity on the internet, otherwise known as Data Clean Rooms. Currently we're wo
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by dougweltman 3y ago
Enjoy it!
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by dougweltman 3y ago
Infosum.com | UK | Hybrid | Full-time Infosum is a series B-funded business focused on building privacy-friendly infrastructure for data collaboration -- when two or more organisations want to make their data useful for one another without
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by dougweltman 3y ago
1. Because beliefs around WFH have changed. 2. Investors aren’t thinking about tactical stuff like office amenities, free lunches and WFH. None of it makes a dent on the valuation in the way that better focus and execution do, and investors
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by dougweltman 3y ago
At some margin, this is right of course, and rising rates move us closer to that margin. My point is this behavior is better explained by the actor’s belief in something like the following proposition: “The present value of the opex avoidan
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by dougweltman 3y ago
Did you stop reading the comment after the first line?
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by dougweltman 3y ago
Very few people are needed to run the technology elements of these businesses (let’s exclude warehouse/logistics in Amazons case). So why is there an order of magnitude more staff than what’s needed to run those? There’s this idea that
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by dougweltman 3y ago
InfoSum | infosum.com | London | Full-time InfoSum develops a unique, privacy-preserving cloud resource that lets organizations connect their first-party data in a compliant, private and secure way. We power data collaboration across househ
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by dougweltman 3y ago
InfoSum | Technical Support Specialist | Full-time | London, UK InfoSum provides data clean rooms, a privacy-enhancing technology that powers identity online. If you’re a wiz with AWS, GCP, know your way around SQL and databases, and have s
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by dougweltman 3y ago
InfoSum | London | Customer Success | Full-time | www.infosum.com InfoSum develops privacy-enhancing technology to power the data economy, and works with leading brands, publishers and agencies in the US, UK and Europe. We are hiring in Lon
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by dougweltman 4y ago
InfoSum | Senior Technical Account Manager | NYC / hybrid-remote | Full-time InfoSum solves the privacy challenges that organizations confront when trying to make their first-party data useful outside the four walls of their organizati
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by dougweltman 5y ago
TOTALLY
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by dougweltman 5y ago
> As a country you also can enforce restrictions/taxes onto the whole supply chain, as a initial measure… Isn’t this an extremely hard problem, possibly unworkable, when trade is in assembled goods with complex, global supply chains
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by dougweltman 5y ago
That a carbon tax is a source of information about the highest leverage areas we can change is a great framing. Unfortunately, the main barrier to implementing a carbon tax is how we treat imports, which is the key to getting the whole thin
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by dougweltman 5y ago
InfoSum | Backend, Frontend and Infrastructure Engineers | UK | Full-time & Contract InfoSum is building a decentralized identity infrastructure to address the future of privacy and data collaboration. We have just raised $65 million Se
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by dougweltman 5y ago
How much energy is stored in the chemical bonds of the materials that make up a camera? Or a Garmin GPS? Or a newspaper?
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by dougweltman 5y ago
InfoSum | Multiple Positions | London, UK & Basingstoke, UK | Full Time & Contract InfoSum ( https://www.infosum.com ), backed by the world's leading technology investors, is building privacy-first technology that let
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by dougweltman 6y ago
>Early on, one person got symptoms consistent with typical vaccine side effects, but it was determined that the person had a previously undiagnosed, unrelated disease. Second, there was the highly publicized case where a patient suffered
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by dougweltman 6y ago
It would be helpful if we spoke about highly uncertain estimates like these differently, as the 2 degree rise is a middle-of-the-road "best guess" scenario in a complex system. Their "best guess" isn't very good. Wh
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by dougweltman 6y ago
Minor correction that does not detract from your point: DMV actually nets out a surplus in most states given the fees it collects. When states cut its operating budget, it's because they're looking across the budget for ways to cu
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by dougweltman 6y ago
or that! the policy for decades. I'm continuing with the thread's premise that USPS needs to break even at minimum on its activities.
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by dougweltman 6y ago
Solution is either to discriminate against individual shippers (can't imagine how that might be abused!), or to charge based on destination / cost of route. The answer is just so elusive!
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by dougweltman 6y ago
These points, where true, have no bearing on the issue being raised in the thread: immediate-term measures to cripple the USPS as a critical piece of election infrastructure. Your points speak instead to a longer-term question of whether th
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by dougweltman 7y ago
UK asks automakers to join efforts to scale up ventilator production: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain...
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by dougweltman 7y ago
On 2 & 4, we seem to disagree on the central claim that new airlines can be spun up quickly in time for their liquidation not to jeopardize the travel sector in the future once this outbreak abates. This requires two conditions, neither
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by dougweltman 7y ago
1) Where will the money come from to buy the aircraft? Are you saying this with any sense of how long it will take to start a new airline like AA or Delta or whatever? Agency costs under a liquidation are absolutely massive. 2) Nobody is su
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by dougweltman 7y ago
When they get bailed out, what do you think happens to the shares they hold? Company is worth $100, has 100 shares. You own 1 share, worth $1. Company takes $100 from Gov't, not a handout but rather in exchange for stock. Now it's
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by dougweltman 7y ago
FCF is supposed to go to shareholders: it's what's left over after spending money running and growing the business. And this problem (and related solutions) will probably apply not just to airlines but also restaurants, retailer
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by dougweltman 7y ago
The proposition that ethical sourcing is the differentiator in an otherwise undifferentiated market seems incoherent. If Barry is able to communicate to the market that his honey operation is more ethical, then he can communicate other th
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by dougweltman 7y ago
What's nifty about Google's business rationale here is how tight and elegant it is. The strategic case needs to clear a very low "knowability" threshold in order to justify their conclusion. Great example of contingency-

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