jgilliam
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Comment · 12 years ago
The Guardian's headline is very misleading. Google's mission statement is not "don't be evil" - it's "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Larry Page is clearly referring to the mission statement that may need to change, not "Don't be evil." This is all made very clear in the original FT article The Guardian cites, they just chose to go for a more inaccurate and salacious framing of the entire story. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3173f19e-5fbc-11e4-8c27-00144...
[edit: the guardian changed the headline!]
Comment · 12 years ago
I read the headline as "Parents are eating the world and hurting innovation."
Comment · 12 years ago
A "full investigation" is the law in California when sexual harassment claims are made. It's not an admission of anything, it's just literally the law.
Comment · 13 years ago
Film editors will gobble these up.
Comment · 13 years ago
There are tons of software companies run by sales people...they just all fail.
Comment · 14 years ago
Anyone who thinks they should get a salary like that when you've only raised $250k should not be your CEO. Run away quickly. Don't even try to negotiate him down.
Comment · 14 years ago
Los Angeles, CA
NationBuilder is hiring developers and a designer. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now.
We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parker, and many others.
Our stack is Ruby/Rails/Postgres/Redis/Mongo, details here: http://dev.nationbuilder.com/about
Comment · 14 years ago
Los Angeles, CA
NationBuilder is hiring developers and organizers. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parker, and many others.
Developer jobs: http://dev.nationbuilder.com/jobs Organizer jobs: http://nationbuilder.com/organizer
Our stack is Ruby/Rails/Postgres/Redis/Mongo, details here: http://dev.nationbuilder.com/about
Comment · 15 years ago
His point that Zappos isn't a technology company, but rather a customer service company makes Las Vegas the perfect fit. Las Vegas is the #1 city in the world for service industries.
Comment · 15 years ago
The main thing for me was being able to pursue an idea no one would fund. I could self-fund it to the point where it was obvious people wanted it, at which point fundraising is easy.
And having done a few startups, I also had the confidence to not need anyone else to tell me it was a good idea. I just needed to build something customers would pay for. Those can be two very different things.
Comment · 15 years ago
One thing to know that is somewhat unique to bone marrow transplants, is that you need a lot of people registered in order to find anyone who will match. It's not like you can go pay someone for their bone marrow and be done with it, you need to find that one person amongst millions.
That changes the incentives a lot. When you register, some day you may get a call that you are the one person in the world that can save someone's life.
[I had a bone marrow transplant from a stranger 15 years ago]
Comment · 15 years ago
Except they aren't called sites and groups any more. You're really underestimating how important labeling is.
EDIT: Lots of people want sites, lots of people want private groups, but no one wants a space simply because they don't know what that is.
Comment · 15 years ago
If a computer had written this article, maybe it would have mentioned how useful this technology is for spammers.
His speech, The Internet is My Religion, has been viewed over 500,000 times and called "the best video on the internet." http://internetismyreligion.com/