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In many ways late stage startups seem to have been hit especially hard by COVID.

Anyone have a pulse on what sentiment around the earlier stages is like?

You're absolutely right, I kinda just posted the first thing that popped in my head.

I actually question their business model because I think something like Sprig will be far more specialized to cut costs sustainably than something like a Postmates will ever be able to.

I stand 100% behind this. Including the "getting fit" part. it is incredibly important and will build your mental resilience.

This is the magic pill we've all been looking for, and it's been in front of our eyes this whole time. Exercise and a good diet were the answer all along.

Honestly if there is a bubble and if it does burst, I'm putting my money on Postmates as the first company that will go out of business.

Wow.....just wow.

The "benefits of becoming a top contributor" video made me want to bash my head into a wall.

It's the natural cure

That's a very very interesting argument to be made.

As far as I'm concerned, Venmo, PayPal, Square Cash, Google Wallet, Apple Pay all work fine for me and are as good as cash for 99% of my daily use cases like buying coffee or spotting a friend some money :)

Honestly do people still care about Bitcoin? Is it still a thing?

https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=424

We don't care about what tech stack you know, we're willing to teach you ours. We just need you to be extremely motivated and ready to go!

The apps that Microsoft has been buying recently are just incredibly top notch. Sunrise, Accompli, and now Wunderlist?!? Crazy good best-in-class products.

Why would you not say "shit" during an interview? I wouldn't make it my every other word, but I find nothing wrong in talking to someone as I'd talk to them on a daily basis if I were hired.

I think you're misinterpreting what he said. He simply stated "Do not underpay me".

No one deserves to be underpaid. It's not an outrageous demand, in fact, he is just demanding baseline respect.

This guy is amazing for that.

Exactly right. I just ended up skimming it and then skipping to the end.

I've heard so many horror stories about Boz and the extremely toxic work environment that he apparently cultivated. Good to see that at the very least, he's self aware.

It is at these times we must confront our own mortality.

They can generate that much revenue because they have scale.

It's not just a short message broadcast service.....it's a short message broadcast service with 300,000,000 users.

What do you do?

So where does that leave Costco and Sam's Club?

You sound like you have a knack for stumbling upon all the right people

https://nextdoor.com/jobs/

Alternatively you can email julie@nextdoor.com

"When people think they’re going to do this shit for the money and this stuff for their souls, it becomes a real disservice. They’re resigning themselves to be professionally schizophrenic: they’ve divided their minds in a way that, at its core, is somewhat dishonest. Those lucky people who are fully integrated at the highest level figure out how to make everything—their lives, their work, what they do for fun, and what they do for money—all the same thing." - Michael Beirut

Speaking of exclusive content, I highly highly recommend Netflix's "Daredevil" (a TV series they developed with Marvel). It's seriously some amazing content.

I read Twitter the entire time.

Absolutely, that's why everything I post is set to "Public" and the content is of the same nature.

Isn't this beautiful?

Hardware support for Goat Simulator

Would you guys mind serving up some higher res assets please? :)

They expected to add a TON of complexity to the messenger product (they announced messenger as a platform at F8) and they needed a way to decouple the already complex main FB app. It buys them a bunch of things, like easier maintenance, extensibility, and ability to push updates independently among other user experience benefits.

They also didn't want to split the user experience of using Facebook messenger on mobile and hence the forced switch.

It was only a big deal because of the surface area of the world that the main Facebook product (w/ messenger) covers. I guarantee you that if Google did something like that no one would care (at least not enough to give 20,000+ 1 star reviews)