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by haaen 8y ago
David Graeber, the author of the book Bullshit Jobs, walked out of the room twice when Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant confronted him with pitfalls in his reasoning. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/-er-is-een-ong
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by haaen 8y ago
Barry Diller's wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, was a proofreader of Sam Altman's last article 'How to be successful'.
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by haaen 8y ago
Most surprising thing about this article: Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer and wife of billionaire media entrepreneur Barry Diller, was a proofreader.
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by haaen 8y ago
Stanford course by Russell Berman and Peter Thiel
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German 270 syllabus: sovereignty and the limits of globalization and technology(documentcloud.org)
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Does AI make strong tech companies stronger?(ben-evans.com)
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by haaen 8y ago
The author does write about GE's business problems. GE capital, as mentioned above. And the Alstom acquisition, which was a too expensive bet on the wrong horse.
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by haaen 8y ago
Non-paywalled version here. https://outline.com/zyHms4
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GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out(wsj.com)
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A conversation with OpenAI's CTO Greg Brockman(youtube.com)
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by haaen 8y ago
Nrs. 2, 6, 10, 11, 17 and 24 went through YC. Respectively, they are: Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Instacart, Machine Zone and Doordash.
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The 25 most valuable VC-backed companies in the US(pitchbook.com)
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by haaen 8y ago
In march of 2016, Asana also raised $50 million. Sam Altman led that round, at a valuation of $550 million. Crunchbase wrongfully states that YC led it. If Sam Altman's investment exits add such amounts to his bank reserve that the res
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by haaen 8y ago
It's also badly written, with many me's an I's, like 'I squint at the plant names that have been rendered into Dutch.' and uninteresting facts about the appearance of the scientist, like: 'Meis is a big man, al
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Amazon toy catalogue, print version will be sent to millions of customers [pdf](d39w7f4ix9f5s9.cloudfront.net)
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by haaen 8y ago
YC has funded approximately 1,900 companies. 93 are valued at $100 million or more. 19 are valued at $1 billion or more. Stripped from nuance, one could say that if you get accepted into YC, you have a 5 percent chance of building a $100 mi
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by haaen 8y ago
With a post money valuation of 14.6 billion dollar, Cruise surpasses Dropbox as the third most valuable company that YC has invested in. The valuation of Airbnb is 31 billion, Stripe 20 billion, Cruise 14.6 billion, Dropbox 11 billion. YC d
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by haaen 8y ago
Former SEC enforcement attorney John Reed Stark wrote about the complaint against Musk: (...) But here’s the rub. The SEC does not typically file SEC enforcement actions like the one against Musk. Indeed, a close reading of the SEC’s compla
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by haaen 8y ago
You are right. Right now, 1 euro is worth about 1.17 dollars.
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by haaen 8y ago
Some valuation context, although I'm fully aware that Stripe is a private company and that many of its investors could have investing or striking privileges. Stripe: 20 billion. Adyen (stock symbol: ADYEN) 19 billion. Shopify (stock sy
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by haaen 8y ago
Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars. Airbnb has a private valuation of 31 billion. Stripe has a private valuation of 20 billion. Dro
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A16Z cofounder and former Disney president talk about their talent agencies(a16z.com)
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by haaen 8y ago
Non-paywalled version: https://riskcapitalpartners.co.uk/2018/09/23/luke-johnson-fo...
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Luke Johnson: For entrepreneurs, chancer should never be an insult(thetimes.co.uk)
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by haaen 8y ago
Airware raised money from Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. https://blog.ycombinator.com/airware-yc-w13-raises-10-dollar...
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Audio interview with Stratechery's Ben Thompson(fs.blog)
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by haaen 8y ago
Great batch. I'm especially impressed by the hard tech companies that produce atoms. But unfortunately, on demo day 1 there was a company that makes the world uglier and is supporting the massive ongoing trend of middle class and somet
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by haaen 8y ago
David Graeber doesn't even acknowledge that most bullshit jobs are in governments. The man is really an intellectual: he lacks common sense. Also, when Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant confronted him with other pitfalls in his reasoning,
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by haaen 8y ago
I do not understand why Stripe choose a headline that does partially cover the content of the article. In a sexist, but politically correct way. I also don't understand why comments about this being sexist get flagged. Finally, I wonde
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by haaen 8y ago
I know it's HN policy to submit the original source. But the accounting remark of @jasonlk is a worthwile addition.

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