BryanBeshore

As I said, time will tell

Lisa Su is a fantastic CEO. Time will tell what the impact of AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx will be (should it close), but this shows the strategy and execution behind Su and team.

While a lot of acquisitions don’t pan out, this seems great.

Agreed. My comment about scaling is simply that a lot of other companies use rails at scale, and alike that of hey.com (which I presume is heavily used) it is probably built to... scale

Any idea how many people use Hey.com? That might be an early indication as to how scalable this is (at least for hotwire's concerns)

I really wish more startups (if you can call them that at this stage) would go public earlier. There are so many companies I'd love to invest in at much earlier in their life. Coinbase is one of them for sure.

The one thing I dislike about Vercel is that you need to go all in or nothing with it. Say you have a micro-frontend strategy and would like part of your front-end in next.js; you can't.

Overall I really am impressed with Vercel, though. It's been a fun project/company to work with.

Inverse the phrase to be 'Make something people do not want'.

I doubt people have built successful companies, and become 'billionaires' by building something people do not want.

I love their chips

“ More than 30,000 participants at 100 clinical research sites in the United States are participating in the study, which launched on July 27, 2020, after results from earlier stage clinical testing indicated that the vaccine candidate is well-tolerated and immunogenic.”

Source: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/promising-inte...

Agreed. Timing is everything.

FIFY: While Fred Wilson might be a VC, he’s speaking in his capacity as an American citizen. Voting is critical to democracies, and one of your biggest responsibilities on behalf of all Americans is to hold government officials accountable.

* Referencing Fred’s own post/replies on twitter https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/1320706427091111936?s=...

F. Wilson’s reply to a thread on his Twitter indicates as such: https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/1320706427091111936?s=...

The pioneers behind reverse transcriptase were ridiculed by their peers for years. As DNA could only travel in one direction. Francis Crick even called the scientist a wacko. But in the end, the 'wacko' was proven correct and won the Nobel Prize for being so. His name is Howard Temin.

Learned all about him from Malcom Gladwell's podcast this weekend. A really fascinating story of someone that wouldn't give in to peer-pressure, because he was convinced:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/40-the-obscure-virus-...

Interesting. Thanks for the reply

Seems really cool, but how is this different than Vault and other Secret Management solutions?

Congratulations Geoff and the YC team.

Congratulations, and best of luck. Insurance is a super interesting market.

Side note: Might want to change out your Lorem Ipsum text from the Claims section:

https://www.coverinsurance.com/make-a-claim

I'm referring to what are the out of pocket costs a physician pays in malpractice insurance -- the cost they pay, even if a lawsuit is not brought against them.

Not the cost of actual malpractice lawsuits

Interesting points, but this still does not shed light on the effective insurance costs physicians pay (annually and over the life of a practice), in case a malpractice suit is brought against them.

If you are going to downvote me, possibly give a reason.

At any rate, whatever. I am not going to be silenced by your keyboard

"Obama is not in power and hasn't".

Hasn't is not correct. The Obama Administration was notoriously terrible towards the press. The below from an article published today: https://news.grabien.com/story-why-it-will-be-hard-trump-sur...

Obama Admin on Fox News: “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html

The [Obama] administration sought to deny Fox News' participation in executive branch news-making events -- which only failed after other networks admirably refused to participate if Fox News were excluded. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/white-houses-fox-ne...

James Rosen, reported accurate information about North Korea leaked by a member of the Obama State Department, Eric Holder ordered his movements to be tracked, his phone records seized, and went "judge shopping" until he found one willing to grant such a warrant without telling Rosen himself. Holder even told Google to not notify Rosen that the government was monitoring his email. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-just...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-prosecutors-foug...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-in-ap-r...

The New York Times's James Risen was targeted for almost the entirety of Obama's two terms. His crime? Reporting accurate information the Obama Administration didn't want reported. "Along the way, we found out that the government had spied on virtually every aspect of James Risen’s digital life from phone calls, to emails, to credit card statements, bank records and more," https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/the-james-risen-case-and...

The Associated Press experienced similar surveillance. For two months, the Department of Justice tracked 20 AP reporters' calls, ostensibly over their reporting into a Libyan terrorist's failed plot. Why was reporting on a failed plot so threatening? The AP said it was because the administration wanted to announce the news itself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-question-whethe...

Just pointing out that 'Hasn't' is not correct. Carry on...

Everyone should have a cliff, even founders (generally 4-yrs total. 1-yr cliff, then vest every month thereafter).

If I recall correctly, every company that goes through YC have cliffs built into their legal documents - or must have them built in when the program commences - for both founders and employees.

Rousey’s total cage time after 12 pro fights is 25 minutes and 36 seconds. She’s ended eight of her pro victories in less than one minute each.

http://mmajunkie.com/2015/08/ufc-190-post-fight-facts-ronda-...

The chances you will become a Jr. ROR developer are really high. The question is, what do you want to do with it?

ROR is a great entry into coding, and building applications, however Rails is really abstracted away from Ruby. You will eventually (likely) need to dig into Ruby, but that's completely fine. You can build a lot with Rails, and it's a lot of fun. I sometimes recommend ROR before digging into JS or a different language but that might just be me.

Best of luck.

I know that Guanxi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi - is embedded in the Chineese culture, and it seems possible that this would play right into the web of Guanxi.

Another reference to this, as it relates to Guanxi and corporate espenioage would be: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/china_guanxi_and_corporate_se...

These services charge more for the items purchased than what you would expect if you were to purchase them at the store yourself. The $4 per delivery is simply a facade.

You are trading equity for cash with the anticipation that you will 'pay' them a lot more than their principal investment in time.

Few reasons for a large truck:

1) The space needed to drive safely behind the car/truck in front of you would be wasted. Cargo, in a container (semi-van, etc.) does not need to travel a safe distance behind the cargo in-front of it; it is tightly packed, and there is a lot of 'cargo'. If all cargo was transported via. cargo vans, the wasted space in-between vehicles (distance for the same volume of cargo traveling with a semi-truck) traveling down the highway would add up to a HUGE distance. Btw. Lets see it in practice:

- The average distance a Truck Load semi-truck travels down the highway is ~856-miles

- DOT Guidelines suggest a three-second rule for driving behind a vehicle. So... at an average speed of 55 m.p.h. A car is traveling at 81ft/second. At three seconds this is 243 ft behind the car in front of you.

- A normal truck container is 48' (we'll go with 48' but there are 53'), and holds 24 pallets. 12 and 12 (side-by side), from front to back.

- I am not sure how many pallets a cargo van could take, but let's go with 2 (it is probably less than this).

At 2 pallets for each cargo van, we would need 12 cargo vans for the equivalent of shipping 1 semi-truck.

At an average of 55 m.p.h. on the highway, 12 cargo vans would total 2,916 ft of wasted space in-between. That's more than a 1/2 mile

* we, keychainlogistics.com have over 40,000 shipments on our system, right now, that would go on a single semi-truck. Most for today. In calculating needing cargo vans for these loads (sure they very in size, but lets go with a total size of 24 pallets per shipment) it would equal 12 * 40,000 = 480,000 vehicles.

With an average of 2,916 ft of wasted space in-between each truckload worth of shipment (calculation referenced above), we are talking a total of 40,000 (combined 12 cargo vans here) * 2,916 ft = 116,640,000 ft of wasted space which = 22,090.91 miles wasted

1.b) Think about the congestion on highways!

2) Large items needing to be shipped: Equipment, Logs, containers, etc.

3) Freight containers from ports. They are a standard size, and the maritime shipping industry, until 1950's or so did not use containers. The book - The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - gives an amazing/detailed understanding to the efficiency of containers. Which ultimately you need a semi-truck to transport a container.

4) The time to load palletized goods (something that would likely not fit in a cargo van) is much shorter than loading individual boxes

Hack your way in to working for a startup. Hopefully that way you will learn what 'not to do' if you were to start a company on your own. I see this helping in a few ways:

1) You wont blow through your (low six figures), and produce little to show.

2) Allow you to focus your 25 ideas into the 1 thing that you REALLY want to work on.

3) Gain expertise in being a generalists/I will do anything for this to succeed.

4) You wont feel the exact ups-and-downs of a startup founder, but you will get a good view as to what it is like.

Besides that, when you are not getting [insert anything company founders need], I would learn how to code in the evenings, and possibly build a simple app or two on your own. Even if you are not going to be technical in your startup an Engineer/Co-Founder/Investor/[Insert Name Here] will view you as more credible and serious, not just a guy with 25 ideas.

Hope this helps.

Boosted Boards are wicked fun to ride - awesome team, too.