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Kalanick made mistakes, but mistakes can be forgiven. He always said self-driving cars were an existential priority for the company. As CEO, Khosrowshahi sold the division in 2020. With Waymo beginning to disrupt ridesharing (see video), it seems Kalanick was right.
Kalanick has been justifiably quiet about how CloudKitchens has grown. The media has never been his friend, and CK wanted to capture a new market quickly. The most recent public report said the company raised money at a $15 billion valuation. businessinsider.com/travis-kalanic…
Humane is dead. The product can and will improve, but the brand has been shattered. It's a case study in poor product positioning. User expectations were too high due to: → Premium branding → Premium pricepoint They could have taken consumers on a scrappy startup journey…
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@levie “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
Given the relentless attacks on free speech, I am going to fund a national signature campaign in support of the First Amendment
Katherine Maher was formerly the Wikimedia CEO. Wikipedia frequently asks for donations: These donations are naturally assumed to be for Wikipedia, and to keep it running. However, Wikipedia has large reserves and income, and doesn't need your money. Instead the money goes to…
I’m afraid I think this is coming.
The single most important trait of successful founders is resilience. You can actually be an idiot and succeed if you just keep going.
Humane AI: “you know how you never use Siri? What if we glued it to your chest?”
I’m sorry, But if the CEO/founder isn’t intense You basically have no shot. Join a different startup.
Industry Specific Business Intelligence is a low-hanging wedge opportunity in A LOT of verticals. People forget so many verts lack IT. The result? Horizontal solutions just don't work. Find an industry & connect the industry tools they use into a white labeled BI product.
This is what American cities looked like a century ago. Everything you see here was demolished. Why? This is what happened... (thread) 🧵
What I've learned since is that there are motives even more powerful than money. Fame, political power, ideology, revenge. And these are all the more dangerous because they're so much more easily concealed.
I made a similar mistake about reporters when I was a kid. I thought that since reporters had no *financial* motive for lying, in a disagreement between a reporter and a business, the reporter must be telling the truth.
It took us almost a year of grinding to just go from $0 to $1,000 MRR. Fast forward another year of grinding and we just added $1K MRR in 6 days. Consistency won't guarantee your small business succeeds but it sure does help 💪
@emanuelcinca @stripe @stripesupport I am truly baffled if that's still valid! I've been wasting time for several community founders and our 2 accounting firms trying to piece this together. Also pestered @LegacyBuilder__ and @ecomchasedimond a couple times for theirs. The @callmehouck subscription went through…
We’re gonna need a bigger boat! Meet Ghost Shark, an extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle (XL-AUV). That’s right, a massive underwater drone. As a defense product, Ghost Shark is even rarer than the creature it was named after: the prototype was delivered ahead of schedule,…
You can't win in startups by playing defense. Get excited, explore new ideas, and take risks.
Posit: Eventually most people will trust AI far more than humans for the majority of use cases.
My full conversation with Mark Zuckerberg on the breaking Meta AI announcements, fighting in the UFC, metaverse, Ray-Ban Metas, and future technologies. But what was really touching was his thoughts on legacy and fatherhood. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Meta AI announcements…