jamesfzhang

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by jamesfzhang 4y ago
Hey there! I work on Stripe Checkout and we recently released an update that should make selling globally a lot easier, removing most of the bullet points in your post. Here are the docs, and please let us know if you try it out and have
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by jamesfzhang 7y ago
I've use Scientist for every major refactor I've done--IMO it's one of the best examples of a library that does one thing extremely well and has a clean interface.
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by jamesfzhang 8y ago
This is incorrect. The S-1 shows asterisks for the co-founders and are likely just placeholders. In the previous S-1, it showed that they owned roughly 7% together. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/110154261504
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by jamesfzhang 9y ago
One counterexample is Hearthstone. Players buy packs to have access to cards that otherwise would take them weeks to unlock. AFAIK, professional & hardcore players actually spend a lot of money buying these packs so that they can unlock
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by jamesfzhang 9y ago
I left the company when it was around 40 and only know of revenue numbers at that point. Nothing has been announced publicly as far as I know, but it's substantial & comparable to some of the companies on this list.
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by jamesfzhang 9y ago
Wistia. 10 year-old business. Raised only a seed round and has been profitable & growing many years in a row.
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by jamesfzhang 9y ago
Algolia is an amazing product. I've used it on several projects over the past few years and the performance & ease of use is top notch.
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by jamesfzhang 10y ago
You have no idea what the probability is. It's not 100%, but it's also not 0%. You also have no idea what Instagram's probability (and hence, expected value) was at the time of their acquisition. Having such a short-sighted,
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by jamesfzhang 10y ago
This is such a negative, short-sighted outlook. A company doesn't need an immediate monetization strategy that's open to the public for it to have value that's attractive to an acquiring company. Edit: Furthermore, PH definit
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
Give them some credit beyond being "amazing negotiators." Have you used their kit? The publicly released one, or the one actively in development? How do you know if their tech isn't that valuable? EDIT: It's very hard to
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
Acquisition price of over $1 billion: http://recode.net/2016/03/11/gm-spent-over-1-billion-on-self...
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
Congrats to Will and Sublime, great everyone involved!
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
TLDR: - Basecamp releases v3 - Basecamp markets to their customers to upgrade to v3 - Some people upgraded & noticed their integrations with 3rd party applications no longer work (presumably thinking it's the 3rd party developers&#
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Basecamp neglected integration partners by not providing an API for Basecamp v3(github.com)
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
Agreed that it definitely depends on where you live. I don't, but could, take an Uber/Lyft for my commute everyday and it would cost about $5-$7, whereas a ride on SF public transit would take $2.25 and + 10-20 extra minutes.
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
I am shocked...time for Fabric to build a backend?
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
Glad to have made you laugh. I personally have never encountered any of the problems you mentioned. I used to work at a company that used Dropbox for Business and I just remember getting an email that I could connect that account with my pe
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Dropbox has had multiple account support for some time (about a year?).
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by jamesfzhang 11y ago
Revenue: $148.5m (FY2013) $215.1m (FY2014) $319.5m (FY2015) Net income: $10.8m (FY2013) $19.0m (FY2014) $6.8m (FY2015)