And just like school shootings, that German pilot studied MH370. The MH370 pilot likely did the same thing. He was separated from his wife & at his house they found he practiced the crash route on Microsoft Flight simulator.
Surprised it's even that high, I tried to switch to Firefox the other month for privacy but gave up because it crashed on me it-least once a day.
Edit: thanks for the downvotes, I would have preferred if it worked but it didn't. I tried basic troubleshooting, disabling extensions etc. but didn't find it usable on macOs Monterey, think it doesn't play well with youtube.
Probably you were downvoted because your comment took the thread on a generic tangent - indeed into one of the most-trodden areas on HN. Generic tangents are easy to fall into (of course) but make threads less interesting, which is why the site guidelines ask people to avoid them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Unpredictable/whimsical/curious tangents are still ok. Just not the predictable ones.
I used it for a similar time if not longer and I think it crashed < 10 times. In the last years it was mostly just single tabs failing and probably was just another website with some endless js loop anyway.
Extremely stable compared to almost any other software. Perhaps the parent means the mobile version. If not I would expect something is wrong with the system, even if visiting the worst pages of the internet.
I have also used Firefox for a similar time and although I can't say it has never crashed for me, it has at least proven to be a bit more stable than my experience with Chrome.
I switched to ff a month or two ago for the integrated tree-style tabs extension that you can't get on chromium-based browsers
I didn't really have any huge problem with firefox specifically, but Brave just feels a bit slicker, the adblocker is in-built and stronger, and it manages multiple windows better, so I've slowly switched back to brave for general use, and use ff for work and projects
Do you actually trust them? It sounds like they haven't lived up to what you feel was promised in terms of helping with the GTM and getting the business off the ground.
You gave up control very early for money. Who knows if it was a good decision or not, but if you aren't at peace with the deal you made that is a very shaky foundation to be starting on.
> While the time with them is very helpful, I can't shake the feeling that if I'm doing 99% of the work + came up with the idea, I'm better of finding a co-founder and start my own company.
Since you are not CEO, presumably they own your IP - so your options may be limited with striking out on your own.
Yeah I trust them. I think that at this stage I don't need much help. They are like a safety net, if I fall, they will step in. But up until now, things are going well.
I strongly advise having a lawyer review the contract even though you already signed it - there will still be many opportunities for you to negotiate in the future. It's infinitely better to know now than to be blindsided later!
In my last startup, our biggest mistake by far was delegating legal solely to my business partner, who we all trusted at the time. It is incredibly easy for saavy parties to write the contract in a way that perniciously "sounds right" to an intelligent, trusting non-lawyer.
> The best way to describe San Francisco is that it feels like living in a cyberpunk utopia.
Utopia? More like a Cyberpunk Dystopia...
> Look at the actual numbers though and, at least officially, it’s not that bad. A city of ~800,000 residents has ~8,000 people living on the streets[1]. Around 1%, same as the ratio for USA as a whole with 580,000 homeless people[2].
I think that depends where you land. San Francisco is in the top 10 cities in the world for “billionaires per capita”. SFBA as a whole takes the cake if I remember correctly.
"dystopia: an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice"
That doesn't preclude rich people. In fact having rich people help with the contrast, like in the article where a human beings body rotted on the sidewalk for a day outside a 5 million dollar home.
Could be but with 607.5MM shares outstanding, that 10k full vest would have a FMV of of a few hundred dollars - they wouldn't even need to give options
Raising 17M dollars at a 70B valuation is insane for an early stage company. Assume the shares are worthless. Consider avoiding the company all together because whoever is at the top has no clue how finance works.
Well then the information you shared strains credulity, facts seems inconsistent & extremely odd- Why is a 17MM financing even worth mentioning if its worth 70B? And there are only a handful of companies even in that ballpark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_compan...
The strategy is to focus on the 600 enterprise companies that are responsible for 75% of their ARR & to cut marketing expense and R&D. Seems reasonable.
It is a prudent strategy, but will they emerge on the other side or fade off into 15+ year contracts where the only people left at the company are lawyers and managers of the outsourced support ticket farms (where all hope will go to die).
New VMware motto coming up: Retain, Extort, Placate.
