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New comment by jwegan in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

jwegan — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:33:33 +0000

"Hiring" them was just a PR tactic to keep Microsoft stock from tanking while they got this figured out.

New comment by jwegan in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

jwegan — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:22:38 +0000

https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-expl...

The Startup Guide to Managing Your Email Reputation

jwegan — Tue, 04 May 2021 13:42:32 +0000

Article URL: http://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/manage-email-reputation-stop-email-going-to-spam-folder/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27037470

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Hollywood Actor Bilked 200 Investors in $690M Ponzi Scheme

jwegan — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 05:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2021/04/06/hollywood-actor-bilked-200-investors-in-690-million-ponzi-scheme-feds-claim/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26720812

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwegan in "Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack"

jwegan — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:11:18 +0000

Hey, I run the Growth team at Pinterest. I just wanted to comment on the article to be very clear and say we have never scraped Google search results either currently or at any time in the past.

New comment by jwegan in "Nearly a third of blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus"

jwegan — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:37:32 +0000

Also biased because they are sampling people who are out and about. People who are out and about likely come into contact with more people than people who are staying at home and rarely going out.

New comment by jwegan in "IBM's Lost Decade"

jwegan — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:40:17 +0000

"Up and to the right" is a relatively common business saying to indicate things are going well and that the chart for a metric (ex: revenue, users, etc) is going "up and to the right". The author made a play on this common business phrase by saying IBM's charts are going "down and to the right"

New comment by jwegan in "Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch"

jwegan — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:08:49 +0000

The reason some people label Brave as anti-gay is due to Brave's CEO and Founder Brendan Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

> On March 24, 2014, Eich was promoted to CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Some employees of Mozilla Foundation tweeted calls for his resignation, with reference to his donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California. Eich stood by his decision to fund the campaign, but wrote on his blog that he was sorry for “causing pain” and pledged to promote equality at Mozilla. Some of the activists created an online campaign against Eich, with online dating site OkCupid automatically displaying a message to Firefox users with information about Eich's donation, and suggesting that users switch to a different browser (although giving them a link to continue with Firefox). Others at the Mozilla Corporation spoke out on their blogs in his favor. Board members wanted him to stay in the company in a different role. On April 3, 2014, Eich resigned as CEO and left Mozilla; in his personal blog, he posted, "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader".

A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside

jwegan — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:26:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293272

Points: 75

# Comments: 18

New comment by jwegan in "Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020"

jwegan — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:09:42 +0000

A direct listing is definitely not the most likely option. Only two major tech companies have done direct listings and there are also a lot more reasons you would want to do an IPO instead of a direct listing

1) Neither SPOT or WORK has done great, especially WORK

2) IPO allows you to choose your investors. This gives you the opportunity to choose major institutional investors that are in for the long term which will help reduce stock volatility.

3) Even if you don't need money, raising billions can open up a lot of opportunities for the business and give you a warchest to derisk potential market downturns.

WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

jwegan — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 01:01:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo/wework-parent-expected-to-delay-ipo-wsj-idUSKBN1W12T6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990156

Points: 450

# Comments: 338

New comment by jwegan in "Lyft Files S-1"

jwegan — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:29:27 +0000

> If they do go public for $20B+ they that would be for more than Twitter and Facebook went public for

Lyft is IPOing at a higher valuation than Twitter, but Facebook went public at a valuation of $100B and raised $16B. FB's IPO was 5x bigger than Lyft's.

Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge

jwegan — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:11:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/4/18125238/microsoft-chrome-browser-windows-10-edge-chromium

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18604695

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Facebook’s political ad tool let us buy ads “paid for” by Mike Pence and ISIS

jwegan — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 04:50:12 +0000

Article URL: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wj9mny/facebooks-political-ad-tool-let-us-buy-ads-paid-for-by-mike-pence-and-isis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18306858

Points: 28

# Comments: 1

New comment by jwegan in "One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”"

jwegan — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:00:44 +0000

Stock market manipulation doesn't mean you have to manipulate the entire $20 trillion dollar US stock market, it just means you tried to manipulate the price of a specific stock. Super Micro's stock dropped 40% based on the story. Hypothetically if someone shorted the stock and then pushed to get a story published that they knew had no basis in evidence, they would have profited handsomely and that would have been stock market manipulation.

New comment by jwegan in "Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users"

jwegan — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:31:10 +0000

GDPR could be a factor since it required shutting down accounts of people aged 13-16 that did not have parental consent. Getting parental consent required having parents sign a form and send it in.

New comment by jwegan in "Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 700k years ago?"

jwegan — Thu, 03 May 2018 15:35:39 +0000

The problem is just 1 or 2 or even 10 people washing ashore on an island wouldn't be enough genetic diversity to sustain a population.

New comment by jwegan in "Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died"

jwegan — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 06:22:31 +0000

Correct, this is what everyone always hears about Burning Man. However, the idea that bartering happens at Burning Man is the most common misconnection. It is also how you can pick out that someone has never been to Burning Man (at least not recently).

I've been 5 years and from what I gather there was some bartering >10 years ago (not sure the exact date, but my impression is it was in the 90s). However, it shifted to a "gifting" economy where you give out gifts with no expectation of return and any Burner who hears that characterized as bartering would be quick to correct you.

New comment by jwegan in "To ban Telegram Russian regulator blocked two million ip adresses(translated)"

jwegan — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 02:48:01 +0000

Yes it is possible. Typically this usage of push is done more to pre-fetch content to improve load times, but it certainly can be used in the way you described.

New comment by jwegan in "Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy"

jwegan — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:48:26 +0000

I'm not trying to hide it. Like you said it is right in my HN profile.

I don't work on Pinterest's ads business and I'm not very familiar with that side of the company. I'm speaking as someone who runs ads on other sites to try and drive traffic to Pinterest.

Also, like the other poster said, an ad-hominem attack is a classic logic fallacy. You are criticizing who is saying it and did not bring up a single critique of my actual argument.