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Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the comment! Our approach has been very much depth-first rather than breadth-first. We’re laser-focused on the private credit industry for now and plan to stick with B2B for the foreseeable future. The biggest takeaway for us while building Arc Intelligence has been that accuracy is everything—and hitting those high accuracy levels really comes down to staying focused.
Comment · 4 years ago
not sure if I'm understanding what you are comparing with. what is your alternative?
if we are taking authz as a need in your org and also a single point of failure for your entire services (as you said in your comment), are you suggesting you would instead build / host your own Zanzibar like authz service, and that your in-house solution would do better in terms of availability than this external solution?
leaving aside how much you'd lose on productivity, I would guess your in-house solution will break more unless you spend a lot of time making that a highly available service (and you'd depend on other SaaS for that as well, which may also break).
Comment · 4 years ago
Unlike Plaid, Finicity and Yodlee have direct integrations with some banks. Example: Silicon Valley Bank has direct integration with Finicity. SVB through Plaid breaks quickly (because they require some weird 2fa policy).
Let me know if I'm missing something but if Stripe is A) providing reliable connection to common banks Plaid misses and B) saving it's users from all the headaches of integrating with old school services like Finicity/Yodlee, then charging a premium sounds like fair game.
Comment · 5 years ago
I hope you find extra motivation from the extreme contraints you forced on yourself in the longer term.
Making yourself live on 24k in NYC is not a good idea. Publicly sharing that is an even worse idea. I’d be surprised if this gave a positive signal to your investors, but it surely won’t to anyone you possibly employ/pay salary for.
Comment · 5 years ago
If I have to make a guess it’s much more likely that their deep learning algorithms learned nudity is more engaging (without them using that as a feature).
This obviously doesn’t mean the platform isn’t responsible. I agree we need to have regulations that require these companies to ensure their algorithms are “inclusive”.
Comment · 5 years ago
Perhaps the author is in an alternate universe.
Unlike what the author thinks linkedin revenue isn't largely fueled by recruiter business. It is driven by where he thinks they are weak: linkedin marketing solutions, or in friendlier words "feed interactions". See the most recent microsoft earnings report:
https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c....
And unlike what the author thinks linkedin navigated the current climate around social networks pretty well. Not only they've succeeded in keeping the network out of the political environment, and showed strong growth in user base and engagement (see above report), they also ranked as the most trusted social network consistently according to Business Insider Digital Trust study:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-digital-trust-study-from-...
I'm not going to argue the author does not have valid points, but the main argument doesn't connect with actual results.
Comment · 6 years ago
My focus is on hiring marketplaces, and ensuring equal opportunity is one of the most important challenges in building an efficient marketplace.
I am also a strong believer that diversity is the bridge to equal opportunity.
I will be sharing this with my network. Kudos to all who made this program happen.
Comment · 7 years ago
How would you feel if you opened a program and the program started to check your file system to see what other programs you had installed?
Not true. You definitely figured out how to market your scraper by lying. Nice job!
Comment · 8 years ago
You can't generalize but most often that is the case. Having said that I'm surprised nobody brought up maybe the most important factor: sunk investments.
If you have a brand name and credibility at stake, if you have customer liability, if you have built significant the features and infrastructure, if you hired the people that run and maintain those, if your revenue depends on current status of your product... We can keep going on but, you have to take extra actions and caution as you introduce change. That means additional complexity.
However keep in mind big companies can benefit from certain types of barriers to entry such as regulation that provide them efficiency over small companies. For example US immigration policy favors big companies, and IMO GPDR will do so as well.
Comment · 8 years ago
And in your investor deck you "promised" your VC investors there is a potential for huge monetary return in this. That's what the VCs will look at anyways. Side benefit to community? nice to have but who cares.
One usecase I find particularly interesting is predictions. People often predict the future like “in 2 years we will have AGI” etc. It would be fun to fact check these predictions on the exact date 2 years later. Pick top tech leaders or politicians and scrape all their predictions and make a leaderboard of who got it right or messed up. could be fun to try.