Hacker News: DenverR

New comment by DenverR in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

DenverR — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:47:50 +0000

it's written to provoke thought and reflection.

the title does the reflection on behalf of the reader which is a disservice.

New comment by DenverR in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

DenverR — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:31:16 +0000

The actual takeaway question is "is Elon Musk on a frontier of his own — or is the market extrapolating one proven outlier onto an unproven one?"

The HN title editorializes its own answer to the author's question.

New comment by DenverR in "India's VIP culture is out of control"

DenverR — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:04:13 +0000

New comment by DenverR in "$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents"

DenverR — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:39:04 +0000

real Free Laptops has never been tried.

New comment by DenverR in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"

DenverR — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:55:21 +0000

Congratulations you’ve just described central planning.

So “society” should be able to veto a sale, but when payroll is due the owners are on the hook?

New comment by DenverR in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"

DenverR — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:37:39 +0000

How was Figma able to generate any value operating in Adobe’s powerful monopoly?

New comment by DenverR in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"

DenverR — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:18:38 +0000

Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.

New comment by DenverR in "The tale of two Shanghais"

DenverR — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:20:40 +0000

Came here to comment the same. One of my favorite reads of the year.

New comment by DenverR in "Tesla Optimus bots were controlled by humans during the 'We, Robot' event"

DenverR — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:31:46 +0000

Clearly a rorschach for people. The cars were driving autonomously and the improvements in Optimus’ form factor were impressive, so to me it seems pedantic to complain that the bar tending and rock paper scissors weren’t 100% autonomous.

Are you a Trevor Milton fan? I didn’t see as much merit in his body of work.

New comment by DenverR in "Tesla Optimus bots were controlled by humans during the 'We, Robot' event"

DenverR — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:36:33 +0000

I’m not sure why everyone is positioning this as a “gotcha”. I may be off base, but was it advertised as 100% autonomous? I’m just impressed with the form factor, dexterity, and battery life. Feels like everyone’s grasping at straws to cast the event as a failure.

New comment by DenverR in "Ask HN: How do you deal with the end of globalization?"

DenverR — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 02:54:27 +0000

India

New comment by DenverR in "Modeling a Wealth Tax"

DenverR — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:55:52 +0000

Apple has closer to $93b[1] on hand vs. $1t quoted.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/balance-sheet/

New comment by DenverR in "Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing"

DenverR — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:52:04 +0000

Former GE investor here - everything you've said is spot on.

Our modus operandi was that a growth equity investment should _never_ go to zero. The new portfolio thinking has shifted to the right: 1/3 make 1-2x, 1/3 make 2-3x, 1/3 make 3x or more.

New comment by DenverR in "Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content"

DenverR — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:00:39 +0000

Why does facebook continue to allow the running of political ads and all the headache that comes with it (despite it being a minuscule piece of it's overall revenue)? Power. You can see this as being the most tone-deaf way possible to address the problem, or as a power grab to become an arbiter of truth.

New comment by DenverR in "Tesla Roadster"

DenverR — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 06:45:53 +0000

They clearly learned the power of the preorder with the Model 3! This is a great way to raise funding without going back to the equity markets.

Say they can fill up all the founder series slots along with 5,000 regular slots, that’s $500,000,000. Smart :)

New comment by DenverR in "Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?"

DenverR — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:24:18 +0000

shoot me an email drayburn[at]nvp.com, happy to jump on the phone and discuss

New comment by DenverR in "Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?"

DenverR — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:22:58 +0000

shoot me an email drayburn[at]nvp.com

Sonic Drive-In Restaurant Begins Testing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

DenverR — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:17:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2016/06/28/sonic-drive-in-testing-electric-vehicle-charging.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14133153

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by DenverR in "Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation"

DenverR — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:29:14 +0000

It's seems pretty obvious to me that they replaced the human curated news section with a far (and intentionally) inferior product. They knew people would eventually begin complaining about the new system and ask for the old system back.

New comment by DenverR in "Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO"

DenverR — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:37:25 +0000

It's less about raising funds and more about liquidity for current shareholders