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by vu0tran 1y ago
Thanks for giving it a read! Honestly, I hope you're right and I'm wrong. I think for the most part, the things that people talk about and try to predict don't usually come to fruition. It could be that I'm just complete
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by vu0tran 1y ago
Yeah you might be right. I typically am a lot more bull than my other colleagues lol. I don't think I'm far off though. I might be several years off, but definitely not 10s of years IMO
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by vu0tran 1y ago
Author here. Thanks for reading. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I used to work at Snapchat where a lot of the talking points were still centered around the "Social Dilemma". As I've transitioned to workin
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The Coming Age of Super Entertainment and Super Porn(vutran.substack.com)
14 points by vu0tran 1y ago|23 comments
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by vu0tran 4y ago
ehh... to be fair, lots of companies did much worse. Lots of companies in Fintech during the run up.
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A graph of tech companies' Price to Sales[1] over the last 4 years by sector(i.imgur.com)
2 points by vu0tran 4y ago|1 comments
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by vu0tran 4y ago
[1] Price to Sales is a company's reported last 12 months of revenue divided by their market cap at that point in time [2] If anyone wants a weekly report, submit your email here: http://eepurl.com/h8Q-UD From July 30t
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Show HN: A calculator for startup valuations based on A16Z(valuations.fyi)
3 points by vu0tran 4y ago|1 comments
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The #1 way new CS grads get completely f'd by startups(valuations.fyi)
1 points by vu0tran 4y ago|0 comments
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by vu0tran 4y ago
It's like 95% art, which is why we got horrendous valuations like with Bolt. https://valuations.fyi/company/bolt-financial $40M revenue, $11B valuation. What were they thinking!?
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What's happening with startup valuations? Looking at last 4 years of public data(valuationsfyi.substack.com)
1 points by vu0tran 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Equities.fyi – Startup valuations based on public company data(equities.fyi)
18 points by vu0tran 4y ago|1 comments
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by vu0tran 4y ago
https://equities.fyi/company/instacart Uber / Lyft get a multiple of about 1x. DoorDash gets 4x. Instacart did $1.8B in revenue so even at a generous 6x multiple, it's only $11B...
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by vu0tran 4y ago
Buy now pay never. All of fintech is probably down by roughly 80% from highs: https://equities.fyi/company/plaid
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by vu0tran 4y ago
You can see the feature roadmap and design ideas here: https://justjournal.app/about (FYI, your data is only saved on localstorage for now) I basically just wanted an excuse to create something fun this weekend. I struggled
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Show HN: Just Another Journaling App(justjournal.app)
14 points by vu0tran 4y ago|2 comments
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Are women more racially selective than men?(medium.com)
7 points by vu0tran 10y ago|0 comments
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HackerSurfing II: Free Trip to Italy for Job-Seeking Engineers and Designers(hackersurfing.com)
11 points by vu0tran 10y ago|2 comments
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What we used to build our dating app(medium.com)
4 points by vu0tran 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Which in app “rate me” screen pisses you off the most?
4 points by vu0tran 11y ago|1 comments
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5 Key Mobile Metrics You’re Probably Not Already Measuring(blog.influxapm.com)
1 points by vu0tran 11y ago|0 comments
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How private are mobile email clients?(blog.slidemailapp.com)
1 points by vu0tran 11y ago|0 comments
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How Calculus Hinders the Global Economy(medium.com)
4 points by vu0tran 11y ago|0 comments
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by vu0tran 11y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by vu0tran 11y ago
Yup. Acquired for $101M then subsequently shut down in 1-2 years (just kidding of course). I don't know if it's in my best interest to answer this publicly, but screw it. The honest answer is I'm not entirely too sure, but an
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by vu0tran 11y ago
Haha, thanks for the feedback. Copywriting was never my strong suit ;) Any tips on how I can improve it?
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by vu0tran 11y ago
Yeah, it's frustrating. I was using Sparrow until it got acquired and then shut down. Then switched to Mailbox... which then got acquired... Whoops. I ended up so frustrated I created my own email client in my spare time and half accid
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App to App Testing(testmunk.com)
3 points by vu0tran 11y ago|0 comments
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SlideMail 2.0 – An open experiment to create a better email client(blog.slidemailapp.com)
15 points by vu0tran 11y ago|4 comments
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How to test Mobile Analytics(blog.testmunk.com)
5 points by vu0tran 11y ago|0 comments

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