dmarlow

When was this? East and East2 had a lot of quota constraints due to tax season. That should be diminishing now that tax season is over though.

Doesn't Tesla have an open patent philosophy? I've heard Musk say that if someone builds a better electric car and it causes the end of Tesla, he's fine with that.

Maybe he's counting decimal places too?

Plenty of people know who they are and have for quite a while.

This is just absurdly false. What basis do you have for this claim?

I'd be happy to talk to you more about this. I manage a cloud team, oversee a sizeable budget, and have a lot of experience optimizing cloud spend (along with startup/unicorn/mega corp experience).

The play is, like what others have said, it's your expertise and providing consulting services to others struggling with cloud spend.

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> You see the company hire friend after friend of execs, friends' kids as interns, friends' wives as Executive Directors, execs' girlfriends as "Chief of Staff" - and you realize you need to get something too, so you use company time to form your own startup.

They do this because no one wants to work at their startup. How do you see this being solved then?

How about two of the most cost impacting elements in home building, cost of labor and land?

This. I have one and I think it may outlive me. That thing has been working flawlessly for over a decade.

I thought the PIN was the issue. Can't op just do a pw reset, wipe the phone and log in again?

I absolutely love it! Thanks for making it so simple and clean.

Totally get it. If you're into it for a few k to install, that's one thing. To me, the total costs for this seem a bit high. Who knows, maybe with scale things get cheaper. I'm definitely not their target customer, despite wanting to be.

Same thought as well. I recently self installed an 18k BTU unit. The lines came pre-charged, but I wanted it to be run exactly to length. For someone to come and do just that part (cut, flare and vacuum/charge the lines) cost me just $150. I got the unit (a pioneer) for under $900. The rest of the world has heat pumps figured out, no need for a tesla-ish version charging a premium. Cost will be the biggest factor for adoption for ElectricAir, imo.

If anything, a sweaty startup offering just the install for a nominal fee would do really well here.

It would be an interesting way to cover a lot of ground and see the world. I don't think I'd personally would want to do this indefinitely though. Cost wise, it seems to be on par with bargain cruise costs (from what I remember). I'd hate to be stuck on a cruise ship when there's a malfunction or illness spreading.

I think you're going to find HN to be against most rent seeking forms of "investment". There's a lot of hate on landlords, for both good and bad reasons. HN isn't on the friendlier side of the spectrum.