How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fast

Re:How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy ge... by hermannj314 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:09AM (#42804156)

I would need more data on how many businesses failed based on ownership of the chair.

If you told me that chair had been used by n successive failed businesses, there is a value of n where I would reject the null hypothesis that the chair has no association with the business failing.

I don't think n=1 is sufficiently large.

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Re:How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy ge... by bluGill on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:46AM (#42805075)

You will never get to n sufficiently large - chairs don't last that long. Even if a chair really is that haunted, it will have to be in a startup for 6 months before the money runs out (it will take that long to run out of money after the chair forces it on the bad track - if the startup runs out sooner it wasn't the chair at fault).

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Re:How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy ge... by rzzzt on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:43AM (#42811755)

But when it breaks, they take the roller wheel and put it on another chair.

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