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Loved weave and sad to see it go.

They had two monetization strategies. I was a premium user - paying for features like being able to pick who I met with and setting a meeting point. They also explored enterprise - helping companies c…

$3k per month should get you a studio apartment in the Mission, SOMA, downtown etc. If you're willing to share you can get for cheaper. If you want 1 bedroom you're going to struggle to find…

Forcing employees to stay until liquidation isn't in the founders interest either. You retain employees who might have been great from the zero to 50 stage but not as well suited in the 50 - 5000…

Avoids some of the issues, creates more particularly limiting upside potential. Strong recent article https://medium.com/@chamath/spending-money-to-make-money-aka... …

If you read the template they link to you would see that it's really a blank slate - more a placeholder for the conversation every parent needs to have with their children around money, relevant …

It was $2m in 2014

They recently took around $3m off the table if I recall correctly.

They have enough buying power - they could probably mandate it

Wow, you're right. 27%. Versus 10% and 11% for DotCom and 90s recession respectively. That's a lot! "typically lasting 4 years" but 6 for 08 to return to pre-downturn levels. Rough…

Unlikely to see a big drop unless something really catastrophic happens. Relatively small drop in 08.

Expensive. If you moved here 5-10 years ago your rent isn't too bad but good luck if you need to move out for whatever reason (eviction, bad housemate vibe, meet a partner, have a kid...). Relati…

Tons of great comments in this thread. I would recommend the book "essentialism". You can't do it all. You need to define what is the most important things and avoid everything else. Th…

Sales team means different things to different companies. To you it means an aggressive person hunting you down, to me it means a consultative person to follow up a lead. How many JIRA owners get a di…

I've had a couple of zeros or very cheap fares in last couple of days as well. What was this zero in your case?

Am I the only one who wants to play this in VR with a Vive?

What's the market like for a software engineer in Wellington? Was in town a few weeks ago and loved every minute. Raglan Roast has got to be one of my top 5 coffee joints of all time!

What are you doing now you're no longer a partner at YC?

"You get the cofounder that you deserve". Time to get to work.

+1 to Weave. Have been going on Weaves for last few months and met a bunch of incredibly talented / accomplished people.

I don't go to too many networking events but would be keen to grab a coffee. Not ready to start my next thing again but learning to code and have more than a few ideas up my sleeve. Email in bio.…

And the author was slammed by the NYTimes editor for not disclosing conflict of interest throughout that piece (Marc Andreesen invested heavily in AirBNB through A16Z / Laura Arrillaga-Andreesen …

How flexible are the density and new development policies? Increased demand with no supply = increased prices and low supply.

Are you using Yahoo and Marissa Mayer as an example of counter-point to remote work?

Are you saying Amazon have built a tool to time the market?

Was the lack of enterprise sales, and being beaten out by competitors, the reason the product failed? From your story it sounds like you were on the brink of success relatively recently. What are you …

aesthetics

Haven't had success here either, generally I'll use a whiteboard or a piece of paper and show it to my web cam. If I have more time I'll throw something together in Illustrator. Would b…

As with all things, YMMV. Keen to hear if you think you're an average example of your cohort or in the top x%.