myhrvold

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by myhrvold 3y ago
A less nefarious reason behind companies increasing profit margins, is that with more uncertainty -- i.e. potential supply chain disruptions in the future -- companies feel the need to make more from what they are able to get to the end c
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Unsurprising to see TV writing overtake film writing in the last decade plus; TV writings lends itself much more to streaming shows (which are considered TV even if they never appear on cable / "normal" television). Interesti
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Shopify still a valuable business! It's a success story in a volatile space. So if they want to maximize their growth during good times, it's almost inevitable they'll have to walk back some of the earlier steps they made dur
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Unfortunate, but these layoffs are not surprising given economic conditions. It's a sizable number of affected roles, so hopefully this is a one-and-done for now. (A drip, drip, drip over a year and a half is the worst IMO with respect
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Smart! This was a bet that I think made sense in theory for Shopify, but in practice became too hard to manage and execute given their M.O. Would imagine Shopify is taking a loss in offloading, but will prevent future hemorrhaging of cash f
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Nope that was nearly a month after -- toward the end of February as I recall. #DeleteUber started when Uber turned off surge to an airport from a taxi strike. It was headline news already by the end of January: https://www.nyti
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Nah the taxi industry was a lot worse than Uber. Most of the arguments over whether Uber drivers are employers to me are baffling; most taxi drivers took set, long hourly shifts from the medallion owners -- a much greater hallmark of an emp
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by myhrvold 3y ago
A lot was also in a gray area. In fact France ending up (I think very unfairly, but ofc I worked at Uber) passing laws specifically against Uber to make it retroactively illegal. Which basically was a tacit admission that is was OK by the
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Yes the beginning was in late January 2017, involving a taxi strike at a NYC area airport and Uber's messaging around continuing to operate to serve the airport and surge pricing. That's how the delete Uber hashtag arose and it ju
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Yeah I think that's in part because so much of the cultural zeitgeist around Uber was on the policy implications, and the effect on consumer behavior etcetera. There were a ton of technical challenges in scaling. Uber was also one of
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by myhrvold 3y ago
Inaccurate overall IMO; a caricature of what actually went on. But accurate in terms of capturing the sentiment that a lot of Uber skeptics had during the height of Uber mania, say 2015-2019. So the series is more a reflection of that t
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by myhrvold 3y ago
uChat actually saved Uber a lot of money by the way. Slack is way more expensive and it would not meet the requirements of Uber at the time, i.e. anyone being able to chat with anyone (including the famous global Pool Party room with every
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by myhrvold 4y ago
Maybe. The buyer certainly has more info for how market valuations are set if they're an investing professional, like is often the case for these tender offers. However, on the other side... you have long standing employees of the comp
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by myhrvold 4y ago
Yeah Uber had this, twice actually as a private company; once with Softbank in January 2018. And then again with Coatue / a few other investors in July 2018. There's a bit of game theory at stake, as to what you tender. You want t
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by myhrvold 4y ago
Stripe made the right move here. Going public is a huge move. You don't want to make a big decision like this because early employees couldn't have cashed out. There are lots of other considerations that come along with an IPO and
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by myhrvold 4y ago
Yeah I think the question is "great for who". I think it could be great for the founders (who can achieve liquidity in a variety of ways at any point really, that regular employees don't have access to. I'm not critical
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by myhrvold 4y ago
Yes; the idea is that the startup wants control for who will be on the cap table, so they don't hassle with written requests for info etcetera. Minority shareholders (especially for California businesses) have a fair number of informat
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by myhrvold 4y ago
That's true but the reality for many will be selling at least the amount of shares to cover the cost of executing their options. And because the next window to sell could be undetermined (possibly many years in the future), many empl
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by myhrvold 5y ago
A target audience is a good broader point about MOOCs and online education. (I took edX courses during the "glory days" of 2012 and 2013 -- and also tested out Udemy, Coursera, and Udacity at the time.) The one-size-fits-most natu
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A No Code Workflow Orchestrator for Batch and Streaming Pipelines at Scale(ubere.ng)
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Engineering SQL Support on Apache Pinot at Uber(ubere.ng)
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Production Distributed XGBoost to Train Deep Tree Models with Large Data Sets(ubere.ng)
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Food Discovery with Uber Eats: Using Graph Learning to Power Recommendations(ubere.ng)
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Menu Maker: Uber Eats' New Menu Management Tool(ubere.ng)
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Conducting Better Business with Uber's Open Source Orchestration Tool, Cadence(ubere.ng)
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Scaling Cash Payments in Uber Eats(eng.uber.com)
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Herb: Multi-DC Replication Engine for Uber's Schemaless Datastore(ubr.to)
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Food Discovery with Uber Eats: Building a Query Understanding Engine(ubere.ng)
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Engineering a Job-Based Forecasting Workflow for Observability Anomaly Detection(ubere.ng)
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Thank You for Your Feedback: Improving the Uber Engineering Workflow with URate(eng.uber.com)
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