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by slap_shot 2y ago
There isn't a winner and there likely won't be one (at least not for a long time). Tabular will likely be acquired by Snowflake and the two industry behemoths now back their own formats, and each will treat their own as a first cl
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Also curious! But even that does help to appreciate what a 1:4800 chance something is. I really like that frame of reference.
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by slap_shot 3y ago
The Rehearsal (and Finding Frances) is with Synecdoche, New York in the bucket of "I didn't know art could do that". I was just in complete awe of what he did with with both of those.
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I also found found it incredibly hard to watch, and was also ruined me for days if not weeks. In fact, I think a certain part of me has been permanently changed. And that is exactly why it is now my favorite movie. A lot of movies have move
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Kaufman's work but only recently saw Synecdoche, New York, which immediately became my favorite movie, ever. That led me down a rabbit hole of listening to basically every recorded interview he's ever given.
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Not the first one and certainly not the last...
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by slap_shot 3y ago
> half of them were psychologically incapable of staying in a cushy mid-six comp position at a big company, even when they had the chops. It's part of what drove them to do something else. This is an incredibly good point. I, myself
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Using founders of $1B+ companies is absolutely using outliers and is evaluating survivorship bias. As it relates to this article, a $1B+ company generally has product market fit and the founder has taken $10M+ off the table, which is more t
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Pitbull ownership is a contentious subject and just overall a very shitty situation. I've seen a pitbull kill another dog and two other pitbulls attack children. That lead me to look at data, and while there is conflicting data, I walk
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by slap_shot 3y ago
You're actually proving the exact opposite of your initial claim, but at least you are now teasing out the confounding variables that actually explain this. There is no significant causation related to a founder's marital status.
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I'm a founder that let starting a startup wreak massive havoc on his marriage. This shit is real. My suggestion to anyone in a serious relationship that is starting a business: Cofounders often layout an operating agreement when they s
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by slap_shot 3y ago
What does "Pull the other one" mean in reply to "forgot they used the service"?
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Are you implying all companies that have an open core model are using "bait and switch" tactics? Would pointing you to the dozens of publicly traded companies with open core models "prove you wrong"?
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I don't disagree, but was there something in this post that suggested their monetization strategy was support and consulting? I do see they are going to be focused on "ethical monetization" but I have no idea what that means.
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I'll second the opinion of having your contracts reviewed, but will curb some expectations: most contracts (NDAs, employment agreements, home contracts etc) are fairly standard. There may be some small points to negotiate if they are o
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by slap_shot 3y ago
This just hit as probably the most powerful comment I've read on here in the 15 years I've been reading. Wow. Regretfully, I can think of dozens of {tools|processes|concepts} I treated as "fidget toys" rather than critic
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I'm surprised how often I speak to technical teams that do not utilize PagerDuty (or an equivalent alternative). As PagerDuty integrates with nearly any external system, it separates the collection of telemetry from the incident respon
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Exactly. I'm not sure what the appeal of these crossovers are (they're effectively small sedans on the Chassis of a small SUV) but at that price point, just get a foreign sedan that you can drive into the ground. I have a number o
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by slap_shot 3y ago
That sounds nice in theory, but in reality, whether you raise from a firm of three partners or 300, you're going to work very closely with a single partner, and his or her competencies/style is mostly what your interaction with th
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Unless the product is like still in development, right? We're getting flooded with products that are just thin veneers over ChatGPT, which is fine. But some products require clearing a massive R&D hurdle. Sharing what you are worki
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by slap_shot 3y ago
I watch a YouTube channel that frequently features a guest from New Zealand, and in every video in which he appears, different people in the background will parrot the guest after he says certain words that really show off the NZ accent. I
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by slap_shot 3y ago
It's plausible that a handful of these new startups can define themselves as the next generation software of their industry, but I'm not sure many of these startups will make out of the "Tug-of-War valley" as the article
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by slap_shot 3y ago
simplified: Exchanges are a group of public companies. Each company has a market capitalization, calculated by the number of shares * the share price. Apple's individual market cap is greater than the aggregate market cap (sum of all c
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by slap_shot 3y ago
This sounds like the modern version of the apocryphal 1902 quote of Charles Holland Duell (Patent Office Commissioner): "Everything that can be invented has been invented" The economic climate has changed, but there are more probl
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by slap_shot 3y ago
Fascinating. Jumping up to public markets, I thought this was an interesting insight yesterday from Jamin Ball at Altimeter: > There's now only 3 cloud software companies trading >10x NTM rev. Snowflake at 15.2x, Veeva at 10.8x a
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by slap_shot 3y ago
> How is venture capital expected to perform well in these conditions? I'm not sure that this author or Carta as a whole is trying to suggest private markets should be performing better right now. We're all painfully aware of w
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by slap_shot 4y ago
> the three of us live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Steve and I each have three kids; we knew that the dollar figure that would allow us to live without financial distress – which we put at $175,000 a year Putting aside the fact th
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by slap_shot 4y ago
I think you might have conflated a few things: No VC is telling companies to just to wastefully hire people they don't need. That wastes money and creates friction and bigger problems inside of a company. They do tell you to hire aggre
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by slap_shot 4y ago
It was certainly much more common the last few years. However, those transactions are more of "hey investor, let me sell you some of my shares in this round" and not whatever complex behavior is described in this article.
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by slap_shot 4y ago
> the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals. The most fascinating part of this whole story to me is just how few checks and balances there we

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