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I love Twilio, but I'm a little surprised they lost $35M on $166M rev in 2015. I thought they were very close to profitability.

Important to say: Google does not officially endorse any politician, or encourage employees to donate to any campaign.

If you are buying $75K worth of furniture, you're doing it wrong.

It's all cash contingent on employee staying for 1 year (I think).

What are the ethics around analysing the data here in aggregate form (not individual info).

Why would you exclude Spotify?

Technical committee - they overlook and govern a project

> displacing PHP (which obviously no one ever uses

21% of the Internet uses Wordpress, which is built with PHP.

See my edited response in the parent comment.

I don't have numbers, but a lot of shareholders are still out of the money - they bought when the price was climbing from ~40 to the peak of 70.

I doubt that a 40% premium will be enough. But I can see your skepticism. A lot of acquisitions never make sense.

How much have you used the two products?

> spending 3X the public market valuation

Just last year, Twitter’s market cap was more than double what it is today. Since then, they have managed to grow revenue by 48% while reducing the losses by 9%. So, with all that, I think $29B is a steal for the acquisition.

EDIT: my last response here was uninformed.

> And speaking about science fiction, what will Alphabet/Google do to turn around Twitter?

Clearly you have not read the post, and are jumping to conclusions.

Good catch. Thank you

What is fiction ever based on? Imagination.

what's wrong with nodejs?

> Effective immediately, this company’s values are:

> #1 Operate with integrity.

> #2 Put the customer first.

> #3 Make this a great place to work for employees.

I wonder what the values were before the transition.

The problem is market expectations (which is Twitter's fault). Twitter cannot be Facebook scale. I mean nothing can be Facebook scale at this point.

Have you heard of Uber?

Celebrities and influencers are two very different groups. I like the ability to talk to the latter.

> This guy apparently hasn't used Snapchat before

I have, and I quit. For the same reason that I quit FB for. It wasn't adding anything meaningful to my life.

> There are hard numbers that tell us Twitter is losing people's attention

Can you point me to some, please?

Being a man is expensive...

I'm glad your students are proactive in controlling distractions. :)

How is it that clearbit charges $99/2500 reqs, while magic is charging 1/5th of that?

It's case sensitive. Try "WhatsApp"

1. Taking a pillow

2. Pants + tshirt

3. Will try for aisle seat

4. Snacks

5. Too expensive to upgrade

6. Movies, books, articles, music all on my tablet now

7. ...

I have some melatonin I was thinking of taking with me. But this is just stupid (My transit is in Dubai):

> Cat Le-Huy was arrested in Dubai for carrying Melatonin jet-lag tablets, which are sold over the counter in the US and Dubai

Are you making the code open?

Because karma

> if the music starts in two hundred milliseconds or less—about half the time it takes, on average, to blink—people don’t seem to perceive a delay

Anyone know how spotify may have achieved this? My instinct is that they pre-download the next song in the queue + heavily cache everything. But in my experience, playing a new song in almost instantaneous too.

> Things that look like work but aren't: > Writing blog posts about running startups

Anyone else see the hypocrisy here?