I cannot recommend "About Face" enough. However it is a long read and covers the whole life story of Colonel Hack. Instead you might want to check out "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts" where he focuses specifically on the…
The "20% of the world's oxygen" claim is unfounded. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/08/23/as-the... As the professor states in his tweets, there are legitimate reasons to avoid deforestation ("for…
If you run a root cause analysis of SB or the explosion of VC in general, low rates will be at the top of the list. And this is by design.
I find it very ironic that someone would mention Cuba in this post. Cuba is the epitome of income inequality where the ruling party (Castro and friends) controls all the capital, while the 99.9% hold virtually nothing.…
I actually LOL'd, which is rare.
You may or may not like DML's antics, but you can't say the guy doesn't have some balls.
That's just framing. Had the IPO come out at $20 and popped to the very same $26, everybody would be celebrating it as an amazing success. But Goldman Sachs and DST had to get their money back somehow...
While the market for seed rounds has been generally frothy, I believe these wild valuations are very specific to YC. Maybe they are indeed adding real value to investors by attracting the very best founders, or maybe…
"Rip-off"? It's a help desk service for Pete's sake, not the Xerox GUI or the Page-rank. If Freshdesk can deliver the same value to customers for a fraction of Zendesk's cost, kudos to them.
I cannot recommend "About Face" enough. However it is a long read and covers the whole life story of Colonel Hack. Instead you might want to check out "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts" where he focuses specifically on the…
The "20% of the world's oxygen" claim is unfounded. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/08/23/as-the... As the professor states in his tweets, there are legitimate reasons to avoid deforestation ("for…
If you run a root cause analysis of SB or the explosion of VC in general, low rates will be at the top of the list. And this is by design.
I find it very ironic that someone would mention Cuba in this post. Cuba is the epitome of income inequality where the ruling party (Castro and friends) controls all the capital, while the 99.9% hold virtually nothing.…
I actually LOL'd, which is rare.
You may or may not like DML's antics, but you can't say the guy doesn't have some balls.
That's just framing. Had the IPO come out at $20 and popped to the very same $26, everybody would be celebrating it as an amazing success. But Goldman Sachs and DST had to get their money back somehow...
While the market for seed rounds has been generally frothy, I believe these wild valuations are very specific to YC. Maybe they are indeed adding real value to investors by attracting the very best founders, or maybe…
"Rip-off"? It's a help desk service for Pete's sake, not the Xerox GUI or the Page-rank. If Freshdesk can deliver the same value to customers for a fraction of Zendesk's cost, kudos to them.