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texasbigdata

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Tech enabled finance transformation.

Former investment banker, and small company CFO.

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texasbigdata··on Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
Spoofing?
texasbigdata··on The Remote Pop-In (2021)
Look at Microsoft buying sunrise, even though the server based calendar outlook feature was arguably fully fledged. There’s always space:
texasbigdata··on A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition
+1. That prof must have been going super fast!!!!
texasbigdata··on A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition
Using a magnet seems like not a top 5 idea someone would have.
texasbigdata··on I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
This is such a clever hack: “here, take this answer; it’s good the ‘AI’ generated it”, and if you can’t check like you did you might be able to spoof a self serving recommendation through simply because interprability of the inference is so difficult and reproducing might be costly.
texasbigdata··on Axios Sells for $525M
The investors (generally, abstracting here) in mature-ish assets want a 20%+ gross IRR they can transact on and actually exit so they can return $ to their LPs and therefore get their fat bonuses. Aspiring to reach some arbitrary milestone is likely not on their radar; just doubling revenue might get them there.
texasbigdata··on Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
No. Schizophrenia does. Probably a few other things.
texasbigdata··on How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing
Create a maker space in an increasing all remote working environment as a marketing tool? Slow, expensive, small user base….maybe if you convert a ton but that $$$ might be better used doing the digital ocean strategy mentioned above (ie be useful)
texasbigdata··on Analyzing Indie Hacker Products with Verified Revenue
Not stopping for 5 years straight on top of your day job, while you’re are the sole on call pager duty engineer (through holidays and work crunches, etc), is kindly very very difficult and kudos to you but probably borderline unachievable for mere mortals.
texasbigdata··on Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
After that pure dissonance! Rachmaninov in Paris
texasbigdata··on Ask HN: Worst experience receiving an offer?
Fair, fair, and fair. :)
texasbigdata··on Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
Your annual cost is $0, tbf
texasbigdata··on Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
Smart but now there’s another third entity you have to trust to aggregate all this personal information from a slew of users just to… avoid the same situation initially? Sort of seems like only a marginal improvement.
texasbigdata··on Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
Oh man, memories
texasbigdata··on Ask HN: Worst experience receiving an offer?
“Growth potential” lol.

Yeah guys that’s why you’re not paying 100% cash and getting years of liquidity being withheld to your advantage. Tell you what - pay all cash and I can invest it in the stock market myself in the meantime.

Plus they don’t all work out.

It’s in the employers best interest a lot of the time, not the employees.

texasbigdata··on Ask HN: Worst experience receiving an offer?
In all fairness sometimes it’s a huge pain in the ass depending on how HR set up the req 2 offer process (even worse if a ERP is involved), and having some vague notion on if you’d accept would help.

Plus as a hiring manager, and this is minor, I’d feel kinda embarrassed if out of sheer statistical luck multiple candidates turned down written offers, which would indicate maybe something is wrong with us as a hiring entity.

Not sure there’s a playbook here. Another commenter suggested being untruthful and pulling the offer out of them. Given how many times companies screw over employees that might be the game theory rational thing to do here even though it’s not great ethically.

Just my 2 cents.

texasbigdata··on Ask HN: Worst experience receiving an offer?
How did your boss know your interview targets, much less the contact points? Unless you told someone, no employer would reference check you before you even came to interview. This sounds a bit loose.

Edit: if it’s true, go to HR and get that person immediately fired.

texasbigdata··on Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%
Right. Exactly.

Especially as, very likely, a person choosing to work there likely believes in the business to some extent.

The counter argument would be: “the moment these get liquid I’m selling, then quitting to pursue XYZ thing” in which case the potentially lost half decade of time is a big non financial cost.

texasbigdata··on The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team
Please add a trigger warning to your post. /s
texasbigdata··on Ask HN: Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?
You can have agreements with vendots? How would anyone but you and the vendor know anything about that?
texasbigdata··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
Alsothe API is exposed and really easy to use.
texasbigdata··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
I mean, if it's free anything above zero is good. Barely useable is still useable.
texasbigdata··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
Just pull up a top played playlist?
texasbigdata··on Paid Search Engines Are Dead on Arrival
Superhuman is $30 a month and growing rapidly, for comparison.
texasbigdata··on The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor
There is very little econ on the CFA.
texasbigdata··on The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor
Don't really care for the guy, but a 36.5% IRR over a decade plus period is really really good. See figure 1, very impressive among most metrics.

https://www.socialcapital.com/ideas/2021-annual-letter.pdf

texasbigdata··on Starlink for RVs
Thanks!
texasbigdata··on Starlink for RVs
Awesome thank you.
texasbigdata··on The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn
200x ARR? Not taking away from your examples but those are 2020 valuation unicorns.
texasbigdata··on Starlink for RVs
I understand that’s a lot of use cases, but is it a lot of REVENUE?

Verizon and AT&T built multi billion of dollars a year of sales from cookie cutter DSL (simplistically). All these crazy edge cases…are they material? Does it make sense to shoot thousands of satellites in space for ferry boats in Greece? Financially that is.

That being said it’s really cool what a “catch all” solution we’re getting as a humanity for basically free. This feels like Google Maps / Gmail / WhatsApp where all humans get like value for free (especially in the developing world) due to one company creating a massive positive externality due to their business strategy. So cool.

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