Wow seriously? This shit is ridiculous. Theres so many applications web/phone/desktop based that have allowed purchases within the application before Apple.
Elon Musk is pretty badass. It's awesome that he takes such a big role in the technical design and development at Tesla and SpaceX rather than just "running the company" like most CEOs.
When I initially read that article, it really rubbed off on me the wrong way. But then I read all the comments on it and seeing friends and others comment/repost it on FB as well and they were all positive comments fully agreeing with the author. I thought maybe I just didn't get it or something.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that feels the way I do about the article. It seems too much preaching and there's a sense of elitism in the post. It seems hypocritical that the author left Facebook (where by some standards he was doing great things and making a huge impact), to co-found his startup, Asana. Like others in the comments here, I agree that if this message came from someone else, doing something different (i.e. someone doing research in curing cancer) it would mean a lot more. Nothing wrong with Asana, and I think it's a good product, but it's not doing great things in the world and changing it amazingly for the better.
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I think you should also consider the type of users you're targetting on FB and reddit as well. From my experience, I would've assumed that redditors would be less likely to sign up because they're already at a place (say the hiphopheads subreddit) to browse and read stuff related to hiphop, so I'd think it's less likely for them to go on to another site to read similar content. Where as on facebook it's users who are just browsing facebook and there isn't any hiphop pages for them to read on FB so if they click through, they can continue reading more about hiphop.
"So should I un-friend that girl I met at a party five years ago but haven’t spoken to since? Oh wait, you make that nearly impossible. Plus, how then will I know that she needs my help to kill a rival Mafia?!"
If you no longer care about someone's updates or anything that's going on in their life, you can remove them as a friend. I know tons of people who have removed people from their friends lists. Or if someone plays too many games and you dont like seeing that update on your feed, mute those types of posts or posts from that user.
That's true. But personally, when I think about the impact I make at a startup vs at a bigger company, it's how far away are you from that direct impact.
I think with anything, you can somehow relate it to making an impact in the world. I could say working at a consulting company who's on a project for a car manufacturer, on a project that improves the data quality of owners of cars - i'm making an impact because with better data, people are getting the right information / advertisments for cars that are right for them, thus improving their lives by helping them choose the right car. Obviously, this employee is many layers away, but he could still say that he is still making an impact in some super small way.
I think it really is just up to the individual to see what they believe is enough of an impact for them personally.
It might be wasted time & money, but i think most people who are willing to join startups probably believe in the idea and hopefully are passionate about it. Thus they're doing something they love and are hopefully happy, during the time the startup isn't falling apart at least. And also at startups (if run correctly), you can learn a lot in a short amount of time - technical stuff, responsibility, dedication, how to start a company, acquiring users, etc...
Also, you can learn a lot from you failures.
So while you may lose out on time and money, you gain other things too. Depends on if that trade-off is worth it.
since he was the technical guy, can you talk about what your role was as the founder? did you pick up any technical stuff to help build the product (technically)? if not, what were your main contributions aside from the idea (i assume coming up with what features the site should have, etc...)?
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The RIAA labels should be required to pay the owner of the site for any lost advertising revenue, lawyer fees for the defendant, and any other costs associated with this case that wasn't paid for by the RIAA labels (the fed seizure, the prosecutor, etc... was paid for by tax payers). They wasted everyones time and money.
There doesn't need to be a comment on every post. If the article said enough and people agree with it, it doesn't really require a comment that just says "Agreed." or "Great article."
No one is this thread is complaining about themselves working at Apple because they don't believe in the company's treatment of their employees and their general business practices. They all already work somewhere else because of this.
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The article leaves out a huge population of students from the elite universities that end up going into finance. In 2014, 31% of Harvard grads took jobs in finance (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...) where the salaries are higher than most other occupations straight out of college. And then if you look at the people who are in high finance like private equity and hedge funds where people 5 years out of college can easily make $400k+, most of those are from elite top 10 universities.
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