The guy is fine, but, wear your seatbelt, if only so this doesn't happen to you.
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If you think this dude is going to save the world, remember that he couldn’t even cure the tsarevich’s hemophilia.
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I would like to understand why tech companies have so much overhead. Twitter spends around $1.6 billion a year on research and development. What are they spending it on? It doesn't seem like the Twitter website is dramatically better than it was a year ago.
He also brings up Uber and Lyft, the platform takes half the money from each transaction! How much more are they really gonna scale?
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