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simonebrunozzi

34,864karma·9,959submissions·May 24, 2008
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Opinions my own.

Current: VC in Europe at Rialto.VC

Previously: Operating partner at Cota Capital; co-founder of Fabrica.land, co-founder of Cloud Academy; CTO at VMware; Tech Evangelist at AWS. @simon on Twitter (yep, early user).

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Waiting for patio11 to show up here :)
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+1 on the API.
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Well done!
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I know the founding team (3 out of 4 are Italians like me, all living in SF), and as a disclaimer, I am an early angel investor in the company. I have tried the product in its alpha version, and have …
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Why do you say he has to revisit Bitcoin? Genuine question, just curious to hear your thoughts about his view.
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I have enrolled - so far, Piazza seems a bit too spammy for my taste. When does the course start?
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Kind of dark grey.
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I do not work at IBM, but from the outside, it seems that the Watson team is doing very well - and working on extremely interesting problems. I wish you the best.
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I doubt she'd be able to transfer her existing YouTube channel to the new subsidiary. She would need to start from scratch.
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#3 will be solved by Stellar.org (at least, that's what I believe).
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This is a great list, thanks Patrick. The problem with these lists is that I never find time to go through them properly.
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Then, please give me 30% of your salary right now. Within 1-2 years, you'll start a great company and you will thank me for this.
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I live in the Mission and love it :)
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> "Zhanggong district is Ganzhou’s administrative center and home to about 460,000 people. “There are at least 5,000 districts this size or bigger,” said Qiang Xiao, editor of China Digital T…
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> The "manually adds funds" flowchart block looks, to a banker, like a risk item. How does that work? Every hour or so, some clerk opens a safe full of USB sticks and takes one out? Now y…
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Thanks for the note - well done, by the way. Very interesting.
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Air travel is already terrible. No real improvement in the last 40 years. Flight times have actually increased (to save on fuel), and airlines are playing the trick of "let's make posted fli…
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Very well said. Unless, of course, one option has a significantly bigger surface footprint than the other.
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I never get used to the hot+humid combination in Singapore.
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Why is it called the Principle of charity? From what I read, it means assuming the best possible interpretation of the argument. But is that "charity"? I would have called it something diffe…
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Is there anything like this for Japanese? Just Googled but didn't find anything interesting.
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