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foghornleghorn··on Snowflake S-1
And you think that percentage will get lower? Please. Tech will only get larger in the long run.
foghornleghorn··on Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas
Immediately, the author assumes that everyone is playing a zero-sum game, which is the root of the problem with his viewpoint: "We've got about 400 people in this room.... Imagine if dinner was carted into this room, and four people got half the food. The night would end in violence,"
foghornleghorn··on Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)
You make us technical types look bad.
foghornleghorn··on Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune Surpasses $100B
It's actually lower than retail bank interest rates. For example, if they get a huge mortgage, usually it is at least 100 basis points lower. This is because these people are considered extremely low risk.
foghornleghorn··on Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune Surpasses $100B
You are quite naive. These people don't have to sell their stocks in order to finance something like building a house. They get massive loans using their stocks at collateral.
foghornleghorn··on [dead]
How is this on the front page? It's just a tweet with no evidence that this capitalism hater was fired for requesting time off.
foghornleghorn··on Could IPOs be replaced by blank check acquisitions (SPAC)?
IPO's what?
foghornleghorn··on Lemonade files S1
"Delight" consumers was used 34 times in their S1. "Delighting" customers seems to be the new hip way to describe what SAAS companies should do these days. At the end of the day, it's nothing but marketing speak. Lemonade is not a true software company... it's an insurance company at its core. And let's be honest -- nobody gets delighted when buying insurance or making an insurance claim.
foghornleghorn··on Ex-Enron CEO Skilling launching new digital marketplace for oil investors
A lot of the comments here are about investors. Think about it this way as well: if you were an engineer, would you work for Skilling? Hell, if you were anyone that did anything, would you work for him?
foghornleghorn··on I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too
most rank and file get next to nothing for refreshers.