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shawnMeron FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

I'm not trying to troll but the reaction to "It's my f*cking data!" should be to seriously look into projects like Urbit. Where you do in fact own and control your own data.

shawnMeron New Study Positing an Inelastic Markets Hypothesis

Very similar to Mike Green talking about how the transition form active investing to passive has led to increased volatility in the market, among other things. (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-end-game-ep-3-mike...)

shawnMeron Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save

Interesting you use Plaid as your only onboarding ramp. I am personally on Morgan Stanley and am completely locked out of Plaid and have to do manual entry. Have you thought about other "easy" money transfers such as Venmo, Cash App, etc

shawnMeron One simple yet crucial thing I learned from YC's StartupSchool

You got there before me, well said

shawnMeron One simple yet crucial thing I learned from YC's StartupSchool

I've always wondered how to think about this dichotomy - there are other examples besides Ford, Apple sometimes, etc. The way I've thought about it is the classic "ask what your customers want" relies on you to bring customer context and understanding to make another jump to what the underlying problem is. "faster horse" -> "get from point A to point B faster"