johnward

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I'm shutting down my AI SaaS – Post Mortem(johnathanward.com)
2 points by johnward 2mo ago|0 comments
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by johnward 4y ago
Payment is either broken or a scam. Unsure. It gives what looks like a stripe error. Payment processor is on a Somalian domain and the contact page links to a Nigerian twitter account. Payment company claims to be Belgian. Both this site an
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by johnward 4y ago
Betting on black probably has a higher success rate than the average startup though.
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by johnward 4y ago
I worked for the Watson group. It was largely a marketing play which did land with some enterprises but is ultimately a failure because the tech was not there.
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by johnward 5y ago
I love slack. Slack search is terrible for me, but maybe it's the quality of data it has to search through.
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Workplace AI Chatbot Firm Moveworks Reaches $2.1B Valuation(bloomberg.com)
5 points by johnward 5y ago|1 comments
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by johnward 5y ago
Moveworks | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE (some positions) We're instant help at work. An AI chatbot solution that integrates with the chat system a company already uses (slack, teams, gchat, etc) to provide help for IT, HR, Fin
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Moveworks raises $200M Series C at $2.1B valuation(venturebeat.com)
1 points by johnward 5y ago|0 comments
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by johnward 6y ago
I'm not sure that IBM leadership really understands what direction they want to go. They seem to pivot all-in on a tech sector and then abandon it a few years later. Rinse and repeat. It was AI/Watson, then a cloud platform, now i
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by johnward 6y ago
I do a bunch of of XML/XSLT work still. I use XPATH 1.0 basically everyday. It's also awesome for web scraping. Overall, it's a great tool that doesn't get a ton of exposure.
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by johnward 6y ago
> Living somewhere expensive (within your country) seems like a lifestyle choice like any other. Right. I'm really looking to be able to drive a Tesla and vacation several times a year on remote tropical islands. Should my company p
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by johnward 6y ago
This is great news. I wish worker pay was more based on the value they provide versus where they decide to live. If you're making $200k in the valley and you decide to move to Ohio, why are you suddenly worth less to the company? If ev
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by johnward 6y ago
Really? I had some decent success on FB early but not now. I also made a killing when MySpace launched it's terrible ad service.
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by johnward 6y ago
> hey also ban you by default, assuming, I think I had my account banned the last 3 times I created a new ad. None were against their policies. My account go reinstated each time but still.
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by johnward 6y ago
Not only will they save money on office space but many of these companies are requiring employees to take pay cuts if they move to a lower cost area. Like all the sudden your value to the company changes because you moved?
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by johnward 6y ago
> But if you're single, staying cooped up alone at home can be a disaster. During COVID I would say this is more of a problem but in my 8 years of remote work I don't really miss the office at all. In normal times you can get o
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by johnward 6y ago
> which is problematic for building teams and culture; Why? I've been remote for about 8 years. I don't think I've had any problems building relationships. The only thing you miss from the office is the time spent screwing
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by johnward 6y ago
I think that's what they attempted to do with Watson and Watson Health, but it didn't take off the way they were hoping. It seems like they were early in the "AI" space.
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by johnward 6y ago
Their legal team is pretty good?
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by johnward 6y ago
Speaking as a former IBMer. I understand IBM wanting to be a player in the cloud space but I'm not sure they ever will be. Like who seriously uses IBM Cloud? I know some big corps probably accidentally get IBM cloud credits with their
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by johnward 6y ago
They don't. Tesla has stores that are company owned. Dealerships are a franchise system from what I understand.
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by johnward 6y ago
Man when I was at IBM I had to buy a Watson shirt.
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by johnward 6y ago
Sounds like it did land a job: https://twitter.com/davidwalshblog/status/131168544997550899...
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by johnward 6y ago
I do wonder what breaking up large US tech corporations does to the competitiveness of the US on the world scale.
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by johnward 6y ago
For those that don't know, there was a public case about the legality of scraping involving HiQ and LinkedIn ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke... ) TL;DR; It was cons
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by johnward 6y ago
This was has been my experience with other firms like IBM. I remember it being stated in my employment agreement that I needed permission to work a second job. It even limited your open source exposure. Whether it could be legally enforced
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by johnward 6y ago
I would have thought these companies paid a better base salary being in such a high cost area. Also, do FAANGs typically grant more equity after the 4 year vesting period?
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by johnward 6y ago
Yep analytics is experiencing issues for me.
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by johnward 6y ago
I'm not sure where they get their data but this list is usually like %70 conservative media figures. https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10
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by johnward 6y ago
Usually more than double.

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