muzz

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by muzz 1mo ago
Also assumes he didn't sell shares previously, like if there was a tender offer when the valuation was $20B in 2015
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by muzz 1mo ago
Theoretically possible I guess, although looks more like employee 1 to 3 Palantir had 15+ rounds of funding including some whopper $440M and $880M rounds in the prior decade (2010s), so dilution must have been huge: https://trac
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by muzz 1mo ago
How does the equity math hold up on that? At $430B market cap he would have to have 0.5 to 1%, after dilution. Do "first ten" employees get that much?
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Garry Tan says turning down early offer to join Palantir a $2-4B 'mistake'(businessinsider.com)
2 points by muzz 1mo ago|4 comments
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Claude Code and the Great Productivity Panic of 2026(bloomberg.com)
46 points by muzz 6mo ago|16 comments
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Will data centers crash the economy?(noahpinion.blog)
16 points by muzz 1y ago|5 comments
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by muzz 1y ago
But these seem to be two well-funded companies? I.e. both with $100M+ funding within the last 12 months
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The Rise of 'Vibe Hacking' Is the Next AI Nightmare(wired.com)
33 points by muzz 1y ago|53 comments
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by muzz 1y ago
pg on X (formerly Twitter): "It's a very exciting time in tech right now. If you're a first-rate programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can go work rather than at the company building the infrastructure of th
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by muzz 2y ago
How did the acquirer decide to pay a $2.85B for a company with only $200M in annual revenues? That's a whopping 14x.
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Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's Billionaire Elegy(wired.com)
15 points by muzz 2y ago|3 comments
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VCs and the military are fueling self-driving startups that don't need roads(techcrunch.com)
1 points by muzz 2y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 2y ago
It's a designation on paper, essentially
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OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking(theinformation.com)
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Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Company Flounders(forbes.com)
101 points by muzz 2y ago|133 comments
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Applied Intuition lands $6B valuation for AI-powered autonomous vehicle software(techcrunch.com)
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by muzz 3y ago
The company that filed the patent didn't sue anyone. It died almost 2 decades ago. The entity that acquired the assets is the one doing the suing.
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Rubrik plans April listing amid U.S. probe into former employee(reuters.com)
1 points by muzz 3y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 3y ago
He seems to want both, and also a change in voting power would be illegal per the article: "Musk then went on to say that he would like a dual-class voting structure similar to the one at Facebook that gives CEO Mark Zuckerberg control
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by muzz 3y ago
> Since Obama became president, all legislation basically needs 2/3rds of the senate to pass if it's remotely controversial and every tax change is controversial. This is an odd way to mention (abuse of) the filibuster
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by muzz 3y ago
Of 2017 technically, although it was passed right at the end of the year. This legislation is colloquially known as the "Trump tax cuts"
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Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies(vice.com)
3 points by muzz 3y ago|2 comments
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The end of business-class A.I. doomerism(maxread.substack.com)
3 points by muzz 3y ago|0 comments
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FT: What we know about generative AI's impact on white-collar work(ft.com)
1 points by muzz 3y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 3y ago
What exactly is the "abyss" you're referring to here?
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by muzz 3y ago
Actual suffering mentioned in that hour-plus long interview: None.
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by muzz 3y ago
A throwaway line that he's using to pat himself on the back.
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by muzz 3y ago
Even if they mismanaged their cash to this extent, sometimes the VCs step up with the cash for this as a goodwill gesture.
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by muzz 3y ago
Salaries in India have increased a lot-- they used to be one-tenth that of Silicon Valley but now they are more than one-third and closing in on one-half
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Y Combinator hires Yelp veteran to lead public policy(axios.com)
2 points by muzz 3y ago|0 comments

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