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WrenP-Complete posted:Next year in a virtual Jerusalem! I don't really understand why people say this when they could literally book a flight to go to Jerusalem if they're so eager to be there.  WampaLord posted:You would have to leave an empty VR headset for Elijah.   
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I don't really understand why people say this when they could literally book a flight to go to Jerusalem if they're so eager to be there. I think because they are praying for Jerusalem of myth, not the one on Earth.
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WrenP-Complete posted:I think because they are praying for Jerusalem of myth, not the one on Earth. Oh, so the one in England? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TbiIEpZJ8
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WampaLord posted:You would have to leave an empty VR headset for Elijah.  I love everybody in this bar.
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Hey guys, remember #BeSomebody? Winner of the 2016 Pets.com Memorial "How Is This Stupid Startup Still In Business" Award? The guys whose owner got roasted by loving high school students because they clearly saw through his inspirational speaker conman bullshit? Well, they've pivoted. Holy poo poo, have they pivoted. Now instead of being basically an app-based Craigslist services section with a metric gently caress-ton of bullshit positivity language surrounding it, they are trying to be a trade school. Except they are clearly not a trade school. First off, a trade school would focus on a particular job path. This lets you pick your path (meaning, they don't actually offer an expertise in any one area). Second, their web site claims that graduation means a "100% job guarantee", which is the kind of obviously-false bullshit that is actually illegal for a real trade school to claim. https://besomebody.com Goddamn we are in an insane bubble right now. Things are gonna get real rough once it pops.
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel allegedly shrugged off claims that the company was giving false data to investorsquote:Pompliano's findings eventually lead to a meeting with Spiegel and other executives, where Spiegel was "inexplicably enraged throughout the meeting," and barely read the presentation. When Pompliano asked Spiegel if he read the sections on metrics and data, he responded "Yeah, I read those; it doesn't matter."
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Doggles posted:Snap CEO Evan Spiegel allegedly shrugged off claims that the company was giving false data to investors Come on, Evan, let them snap their lesbo bhabis about how they most gently caress
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Doggles posted:Snap CEO Evan Spiegel allegedly shrugged off claims that the company was giving false data to investors Goddamn is this man stupid Money really fucks some people up
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"Dick pics are only for rich dicks. Keep those filthy poors away from my app," says the CEO of a company that hemorrhages money and has never turned a profit.
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Have their spectacle things been doing well? I haven't really heard anything about them
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People reacted more positively to Snap glasses than they did to Google Glass, which is not really saying much because people reacted to Google Glass like it was a venereal disease. I'd be shocked if they didn't lose a ton of money on them, especially given the outlay they must have had for marketing stunts like vending machines and pop up stores.
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Baby Babbeh posted:People reacted more positively to Snap glasses than they did to Google Glass, which is not really saying much because people reacted to Google Glass like it was a venereal disease. I'd be shocked if they didn't lose a ton of money on them, especially given the outlay they must have had for marketing stunts like vending machines and pop up stores. Well the Snap glasses don't cost $1500, don't require waiting a list to even buy, and don't try to do more than take pictures, so they don't need a big battery to last a whole day. The Glass on the other hand had all those problems and the battery wouldn't even go more than 2 hours tops of active use. fishmech fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Help Im Alive posted:Have their spectacle things been doing well? I haven't really heard anything about them I saw one in the wild in downtown SF on Friday. That's all I've heard/seen about them since they were announced.
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My 100 percent tech bubel friend has a pair, I've never heard of / seen another pair.
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I just mount my iPhone into my comically over-sized glasses.
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pangstrom posted:I just mount my iPhone into my comically over-sized glasses. 
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Profile of Mike Judge, Silicon Valley co-creator https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/mike-judge-the-bard-of-suck.html
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pangstrom posted:I just mount my iPhone into my comically over-sized glasses. 
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Instagram Stories is now more popular than the app it was designed to killquote:Instagram Stories now has more than 200 million users per day... 
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That headset is (indirectly) a Facebook product, even.
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gently caress, and I thought my glasses prescription was strong! 
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Doggles posted:Snap CEO Evan Spiegel allegedly shrugged off claims that the company was giving false data to investors quote:Spiegel reportedly said, "This app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain." Spain is 32nd in GDP per capita. around the same level as Japan, Italy, Israel and South Korea (and they're only that low because the list is padded to hell with tax havens and oil states). Im not sure this business wunderkind knows what an economy is.
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Another day, another Uber storyquote:California regulators want to slap a $1.13 million fine on Uber for failing to investigate and/or suspend drunk drivers, according to an order filed by the state Public Utilities Commission, which regulates ride-hailing companies.
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Random Integer posted:Spain is 32nd in GDP per capita. around the same level as Japan, Italy, Israel and South Korea (and they're only that low because the list is padded to hell with tax havens and oil states). Im not sure this business wunderkind knows what an economy is.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/852951685924143105 a ride hailing app with surge-pricing!!! 
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Its like the airlines. Sure they only lose a little each ticket, but they make up for it with volume!
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Literally just copying the Pets.com business plan now.
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Uber gets a dollar from investors, does some technological wizardry involving surge pricing and self driving cars, and then hands them back 95 cents. Seems like a very sound business model to me, so long as the marks don't catch on.
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Baby Babbeh posted:Uber gets a dollar from investors, does some technological wizardry involving surge pricing and self driving cars, and then hands them back 95 cents. Seems like a very sound business model to me, so long as the marks don't catch on. I'm interested how many investors have managed to get money out of Uber. They're really hardcore about preventing employees selling stock on secondary markets, wonder if that extends to investors as well. It's very likely a lot of the continued hype is cause of how much VC money is tied up in the company so they're trying to push the company over the IPO finish line so they can actually divest.
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Condiv posted:a ride hailing app with surge-pricing!!! This is exactly what it is in NYC as well. Uberpool can be less expensive, but the standard service is either on par with or more expensive than a cab. In manhattan it's usually less convenient than just hailing a cab. Juno is cheaper right now in an effort to buy market share, but I'll stick with them even after they raise their rates because they're afaik the only marginally ethical ride share company on the planet.
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pr0zac posted:I'm interested how many investors have managed to get money out of Uber. They're really hardcore about preventing employees selling stock on secondary markets, wonder if that extends to investors as well. Uber reputedly has pretty dirty paper, so I suspect that some early/mid investors were able to sell in later rounds. In general though, I suspect everyone is stuck on the Good Ship Travis.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Juno is cheaper right now in an effort to buy market share, but I'll stick with them even after they raise their rates because they're afaik the only marginally ethical ride share company on the planet. How do they differ from Lyft? Are their drivers employees?
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Subjunctive posted:Uber reputedly has pretty dirty paper, so I suspect that some early/mid investors were able to sell in later rounds. In general though, I suspect everyone is stuck on the Good Ship Travis. If I have asked this before, I apologize. Do you feel like talking a little about what dirty paper is? Not any company's paper specifically, but what are warning signs that you notice when evaluating an investment?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:If I have asked this before, I apologize. Do you feel like talking a little about what dirty paper is? Not any company's paper specifically, but what are warning signs that you notice when evaluating an investment? http://abovethecrowd.com/2016/04/21/on-the-road-to-recap/ there are a lot of factors he goes through but I think the primary one is the company wants a higher valuation and investors are fine with that if they're essentially paying less than that valuation would suggest.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:If I have asked this before, I apologize. Do you feel like talking a little about what dirty paper is? Not any company's paper specifically, but what are warning signs that you notice when evaluating an investment? I have to run, but generally it's terms that put earlier investors at a substantial advantage to later ones, including the public offering. Excessive liquidation preferences are a common example, but being able to take money out in later rounds is occasionally mooted, and I wouldn't go near those sorts of deals. (Some people consider lack of founder vesting or buyback provisions to be dirty, but I'm not as concerned about those.)
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Condiv posted:a ride hailing app with surge-pricing!!! Last week I was on business travel and got stuck in Atlanta because of Delta and the weather I took a taxi to my hotel and spent about $30 in a flat fare from the airport to downtown Atlanta. When I checked out in the morning, a guy and his family saw me dial the cab number when I was in the lobby, and asked if they could share a ride. I told him that I was probably getting a sedan and I couldn't fit 4 more people into it, but I gave him the # of the company and the cost. He was shocked the fare was so low. He spent like $55 on getting an Uber driver the night before on his trip to the hotel, and was about to order an order, but surge pricing kicked in and bumped his ride to $40.
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exploded mummy posted:Last week I was on business travel and got stuck in Atlanta because of Delta and the weather i'd imagine you expensed the ride but lol if family man doesn't take marta from downtown to the airport. hartsfield is one of the few airports in america that's actually more convenient to get to by mass transit than car from downtown
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boner confessor posted:i'd imagine you expensed the ride but lol if family man doesn't take marta from downtown to the airport. hartsfield is one of the few airports in america that's actually more convenient to get to by mass transit than car from downtown eh, I don't blame him. I was only in Atlanta to transfer planes and I was supposed to be flying back up north with an hour layover if my original itinerary went as planned. There were lots of people in my situation and I can't fault them for not taking public transit if they had no idea where the hell their hotel actually was or how to get back.
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