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I had never seen that cartoon about the "dream job" before, but it's something I've thought about so many times as I've listened to people talk about their dream job or dream employer. It always struck me as strange to dream of labor / dream of being an employee - must be a cultural thing.
Nitpicking but I think a "10 billion dollar business" is not the same thing as a "company valued by investors at 10 billion dollars".
Especially when you look at the majority of startups getting funded or posting in "Who's Hiring" and the descriptions of what they do boils down to.. trying to solve some trivial problem.
Brian Kernighan is the type of nerd that you dream of working with AND having a casual drink with. I wish I had some friends like this (I don't actually know Brian, but have read/listened to a lot of his stuff).
Surely many companies have no idea how to accurately measure "productivity", or simply have no good way to even go about it. If net income is increasing then stop whining about people working from home.
He works at a US fund (www.susaventures.com/), so most likely US observations.
I definitely feel like I'm at a point of no return (to gas engines) after driving a Tesla for a couple of years. I drove a nice gas powered car the other week and the experience was akin to going back to my flip-phone after experiencing the iPhone. I do look forward to more, better electric cars on the market, but I've completely moved beyond the desire of owning a legacy gas powered vehicle.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I find it rare for parents to share the non-glowing reviews, and it's refreshing to hear.
And this expectation is incredibly far fetched. It is betting on the reversal of many, many years of human habit which has become habit for a reason.
So Kyle Davies and Su Zhu likely have most of their personal assets domiciled in the United States?
I love my model 3, but I'm glad I leased it. The electric motor is awesome, it's a blast to drive, charging is inexpensive and convenient. But the build quality is undeniably poor (for the entry level, base model 3). I've never been inside a model S or X - hopefully the $100k models are built a lot better than my vehicle, but if I hoped to keep a car for 8+ years I'd probably go back to a German brand.
Agreed. People like the idea of getting rich. And if they happen to get rich, they like the idea of getting richer.
Trading != Investing
I can't tell if you're being serious? There is nothing about 'Web 3.0', at the least the current implementation, that is designed to serve the masses. The "new system" is purely theoretical and all of the blockchain-based products are expensive, user hostile, and generally just poor pieces of technology considering the state of software engineering in 2022.
Clearly very smart, but I haven't heard or read anything from him that would classify as genius.
This is a snapshot statistic that is rather shallow. The more interesting point is the distribution of wealth in BTC. The majority of "investors" are scrounging to buy a fraction of a single bitcoin, while wealthy VCs, family offices, LLCs, etc etc are owners and are continual buyers of hundreds and thousands of bitcoins. Just think about how much BTC the Winklevoss brothers alone must own, and then add just two more people - Marc Andreesen and Chris Dixon. I'd love to know how much BTC these four men alone are in possession of...
I wouldn't say that. Kafka is everywhere in the enterprise and it's adoption is still growing rapidly. This blog post is a decent overview for non-technical people at the very least.
Her Forbes bio:
Heather R. Morgan is an international economist, serial entrepreneur, and investor in B2B software companies. She is an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory.
Personal anecdote after being a Tesla model 3 owner for a little over a year now: The car feels like a toy. The manufacturing quality is honestly quite poor. The electric motor is truly fantastic - that's the awesome part, and I'm a total convert to electric cars for the rest of my life. However, I'm selling my Tesla at the 3yr mark and going back to a German (albeit electric) car. I imagine my Tesla falling apart every time I hit a large pothole.
The managers are the ones that should be worried.
I think it's still early days in terms of what's been built and what valuable applications have been created, i.e. nothing of note. But it's definitely not early days for investing in tokens - almost all of the top tokens seem completely overvalued. I think the token prices will crash and rise continually over the next 5-10 years as developers and entrepreneurs take the ridiculous amounts of VC money that has been raised to invest in crypto, and ultimately (perhaps) build a handful of useful and popular applications.
capitalism model
As someone who spent most of my life in south Florida / in and around Miami. The culture of the city is undeniably defined by Hispanic and Latino influence. The summers (and spring, and fall tbh), are hot and humid - it's a tropical climate. The sports, music/entertainment industries are far more prevalent than tech (although Mayor Suarez seems to be attracting a new crowd and I haven't been back in over a year). Brickell attracts a young crowd with a good amount of nightlife.
Anecdotal but I've been using gmail for ~15 years and I've never heard of anyone (that I personally know) being banned by Google. Seems like a far-fetched scenario for the average person.
True, but Netflix has gotten really good at this over the past 10 years. They create/fund some great content (and a lot of mediocre/bad content) - kind of similar to a VC fund now that I'm writing this out. They're an integral component of the entertainment industry now.
I don't think people will stop using the Google search bar. I don't think people will stop binging shows on Netflix. I don't think people will stop ordering crap on Amazon. I don't think people who use iphones and macbooks will stop buying iphones and macbooks.
Hard for me to see how it wouldn't be FB/meta. They're betting the farm on something unproven / creating new habits / maintaining habits that seem to be waning.
Not a fan of graph dbs? Surprised the $325m round for Neo4j didn't make your funding paragraph.
A lot of VC firms just raised huge funds that likely have a ~10yr lifespan, and they're going to need to invest that money, so I think this whole web3 thing could actually last a long time. Retail traders buying fractions of a single bitcoin and all the memecoins will likely get squashed though.
So don't build on FB and Twitter? You do realize you can build an application and very easily host it for the world to access on AWS/GCP/Azure - unless you're doing something illegal or highly unethical the cloud services aren't going to kick you off. It sounds like you're saying you want to build a social media app but you don't like the fact that social media is dominated by a handful of companies (because the majority of users want to use their product already).
I should have clarified - of course it's stressful and expensive and exhausting, but only to the person/family experiencing it. Assuming that the rest of the internet cares about your move... no, they do not. But clearly it provides a platform for people to vent their feelings about the Bay Area.