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There are also the enablers (board of directors) who stuck by him even when there was clear damning evidence of sociopathic behavior.

Actually this makes a lot of sense, basically struck it rich as a child and never had to go through the normal social experiences that help define who we are and our values. Believes that money is what defines him and everything in the world can be solved by more of it.

I really hope someone makes this as that would it so much safer and more convenient not fussing with cables everytime you drive.

Except for the definition of "evil" is pretty grey. If Google believes that their worldview is the "good", then people who challenge that viewpoint are necessarily harming the good and therefore shutting them down would not be evil at all.

Parking spaces go closer to $200+ so that would yield $24,000 a month. Not a bad ROI from this real estate investment! Time for me to go check out this city auction business.

The shareholders who in this case are represented by the board members. In a public company, an activist investor can bring the votes and force a change in the board. Similarly, a majority investor could technically sway board members to vote out another member (as long as it's allowed in the bylaws)

Why is this a throwaway account? Hipmunk is not an OTA, they are a metasearch site. When you find a price on Hipmunk, it's just a price from one of the OTAs like Expedia or Booking.com. Even when it's branded as a "Hipmunk" price - it's powered in the backend by one of the OTAs (white label).

Actually, you wouldn't need any of that at the destination which is Santa Monica pier. You get out in the LA sunshine, walk down the steps to the beach and take a dip in the Pacific. When you're done, rinse off in one of the public beach showers and you'll be dry in a jiffy.

The buck stops at the CEO. I get why the culture can get out of control and different people have different reactions to the environment created and no one person is responsible for the creation of culture but the CEO is the one who is responsible for course correction and making sure shit doesn't get out of hand. That's the failure.

The two other specific failures that also are hard to defend:

1) Rape report from the case in India - TK should have fired the exec for the violation of privacy and disrespect to the victim. The fact that he saw the report and didn't do much about it is a failure.

2) Otto mess - not going to assume he knew or did not know but it's a failure of judgement to drive that acquisition without properly making sure he didn't expose the company to such a high degree of legal risk.

At the end of the day, his reputation for risk and brashness cuts both ways. I lean towards believing he's someone who will do what it takes to win and I respect that. If you get caught though, be prepared to suffer the consequences if you cut a few corners getting there.

* BTW this shit isn't unique to Uber - anytime $BBBs are on the line, people will do things they might normally not do.

The setup I normally use now if I know how much I want for an item is to do fixed price listing and not an auction and set it at an upper bound of what I would like to get but allow offers so it's sort of like an auction.

Actually, it's clear the author doesn't understand how to list an Ebay auction to accomplish what they're trying to do. Here's how you could have done this EASILY:

1) Allow local pickup as an option on your listing (Does not cost anything!) 2) Put a Buy It Now Price and open it up to Allow Offers to be made.

I'm not sure why a buyer has an incentive to go off platform since after all there is no fee for a buyer to pay through Ebay. The seller pays all the fees so for a buyer to ask to go off platform usually is a red flag for me (scam, wire transfer, etc.).

Do you mean make a story of the emotions/steps someone goes through when engaging with an awesome dashboard? I wouldn't storyboard that. First, what is the Qliksense dashboard monitoring? What is the key metric you're trying to move? What is the core reason your product can move that metric? Storyboard how users use your product to enable them to solve problems, not the dashboard that measures that impact.

I sit very close to our "Snow White" storyboards that map the journey for Guests on our platform and a separate journey for Hosts. It's a reminder to think about the "key frames" that we are trying to impact with our product and constantly remember that the online experience is an enabler of a more emotional offline interaction.

One other thing that Airbnb does that I haven't seen done at other companies nearly as much is a focus on producing videos/stories to tell our story both internally and externally. When I first joined it seemed crazy that we would spend so much time and effort to produce a high quality video (almost a short documentary) to talk about why we were launching a new initiative on our platform. After watching one though, it's clear that video is a much more effective medium to communicate emotion/feeling and that helps employees understand the deeper human element that we're trying to impact and continues to drive employees to champion the mission. Sure, you could have just thrown a bunch of words and stock art on a slide and call it a day but the story doesn't come across as effectively and you don't get the same impact on the feels.

They use location tracking even when you're not using the app to predict where the demand might be going and to get data for future products like the Uber Shuttle which runs fixed routes.

You might say that they're a... CHOP SHOP.

Airbnb's and any other types of vacation rentals are not for everyone. There are many different types of properties that you can filter for and you may want to focus on listings that are listed by "Superhosts" who have shown a consistent record of high quality service and ratings.

In terms of being as trustworthy as Craigslist, the main advantage is that hosts have to go through verification just like guests and they have bank accounts linked and many hosts have reviews from previous guests which gives you more confident of how good of a host they are.

Refunds are available if the listing is not as described or there's any personal safety or cleanliness issues. What was your experience that you felt warranted a refund?

Their REI-branded stuff is a pretty good value and has consistently become better and better winning several awards annually in Backpacker's magazines Gear of the Year. It used to just be the tent (Half Dome) that was well regarded but I think this year, both the tents, their backpacking packs, and down sleeping bags are considered some of the best gear and usually 20-30% cheaper than the bigger name brands that they also sell.

Also, I generally use my 20% member's coupon for things that never go on sale such as bear canisters and climbing shoes.

For budget outdoor enthusiasts, I would recommend Walmart's Ozark Trail brand. You can find a sub-4lb backpacking tent for $30 on sale (which is still twice as heavy as a high end backpacking tent but costs $30 vs. $300). They put out a lot of decent gear but never the lightest or the most durable.

If you want better quality gear but only clearance/outlet, try sierratradingpost - basically the TJMaxx of outdoor gear.

They took back climbing harness a friend bought two years ago but told them that even though it's in their right to return, they would basically destroy/dispose of the harness since it's a critical safety equipment. Other stuff goes to the Garage sales.

If we as consumers are voting with our wallets, in most cases we're the ones who have accepted the new norm as acceptable in the spirit of chasing ever lower fares. Consider the success of airlines like Ryanair which charges for every possible amenity and slight convenience.

United Airlines has largely been the laggard in the industry in the past 5 years even though their stock price has risen 200%, that is 50% less than their peers like Delta and Alaska Air group who have risen closer to 400% in the same time period. If flying the friendly skies took them into bankruptcy, what could they have done that would've kept them afloat while maintaining a "regulated" carrier status?

I can see the flip side to that argument when you're pitching which is that if you're profitable, then you're probably not investing aggressively enough in growth/bets. Consider public companies that pay dividends; that's basically excess operating profit that they couldn't think of a better way to use (capital investment, etc.).

I am in agreement generally that people are conflating the actions of the officers (excessive force) vs. what United is responsible for (poor business practices, lack of consideration, poor judgement). It would be interesting to know under what specific statute were they allowed to use force to remove a passenger from an airplane? Is this covered under Trespassing or part of FAA regulations that you must obey everything the crew says no matter how legitimate the command is? Where do we draw the line?

Sure, they weren't the ones who employed the officers who removed the passenger from the plane but things didn't have to work out that way if United had considered that the passenger did nothing wrong to expect to be bumped from a flight. In fact, United had many options at it's disposable that didn't need to involve forceful removal of passengers such as:

1) Upping the compensation considerably beyond $800. To be honest, that's just not enough considering that people routinely get $400+ for moving to a flight 2 hours later and this was moving to 3PM the following day.

2) Not accommodating United employees who they wanted to get on board this flight. That should be only when you have EXCESS seats, not so you can bump off paid passengers. Here's an idea, book them on another airline's flight. If that was not possible, then that's poor planning on your part, find a way to deal with it that doesn't involve bumping passengers involuntarily.

Overbooking flights is going to be norm, a small price we pay to get lower fares. The response when it happens is the problem that is completely in the control of the airlines.

But that priority doesn't influence the quality of the recommendations they make. The data they sell doesn't influence the places they tell you to visit because that would in effect bias the quality of the data.

I don't think so. The reason being that it sounds like they are still adhering to standard fire codes and occupancy limits to be in full compliance with the law so it's building owner friendly. For a 2 bedroom, it's probably packed with 4 roommates, the company just helps make the living space more amenable to that setup vs. the awkward college dorm / no privacy situation. It's possible in a 2-bedroom you could have up to 6 people (by converting living room to a 3rd bedroom) which this facilitates as well. The cool part is that you get all the community benefits as part of your package which at these high end condos/apartments usually include gyms, swimming pools, etc.

The new review flow on Airbnb asks for more details about specific aspects of a listing.

I think most elite athletes already jeopardize their health from too much physical activity. Consider traumatic brain injuries in the NFL or boxing or wearing out your knees from running on pavement for hundreds of miles. My friends and I talked about this once, we believe there should be two leagues - a standard league with rules and a no-limit league where you can dope as much as they want. They will push the limits of the human body and my bet is that our first mutants will come from this league.

You forget to Spiegel is engaged to Miranda Kerr, supermodel and is likely to be super visible outside of work.

$50K for a company I was working for. It's a 7 letter english word, animal, and was the brand for an ecommerce company that was shutting down but had a lot of history behind it.

Basically makes the claim that curation is censorship, vast liberal left-leaning conspiracy to silence news from the right, strokes the ego by saying users can figure out real from fake news. Also, if you Google GAB there's a lot of news reports about it being a safe haven for the alt-right to spew hate speech that got them banned from Twitter and other discussion spaces.

Also most swimming photos of men or workout photos.