DataSciGuy_401

This is a great observation that is relevant for everyone who will serendipitously bump into the CEO of the company that makes the product on top of which their side project is built. Everyone else needs to be screened by a recruiter, though.

I'd need to know what the percentage of ALDC students across races and across the total population is in order to interpret this statistic

This article misses a lot: 1) Facebook doesn't necessarily need the IDFA for optimizing advertising -- SKAdNetwork leaves the door open for ads optimization, just not at the user level. This article reveals how little the author understands about digital advertising. 2) I don't believe this move by Apple increases its "moat" in any meaningful way. Apple was almost certainly motivated to deprecate the IDFA to protect consumer privacy -- the only way this enforces Apple's moat is by substantively differentiating Apple's privacy positioning from other hardware vendors. 3) If anything, deprecating the IDFA harms Facebook moreso than it helps Apple to improve its ability to grow its ads business. Apple has increased the scope of its Apple Search Ads business but deprecating the IDFA doesn't help it there except to level the playing field.

The author of this blog is at his best when he's going a mile wide and an inch deep on high-concept subjects like self driving cars and Amazon taking over retail. When he tries to go deep on specific topics, his lack of context often leads him to specious and, frankly, silly conclusions.

My sense is that freelancers become a lot more attractive in the short / medium term because: - WFH / remote work will be the norm for a while, and if there's no benefit to having a FTE in the office with you, why not contract lots of work out? - freelancers are a lot more flexible in terms of overhead than FTEs, and the economy will likely be jittery for a while

The ARPU numbers that are reported are for the quarter, so they just take total revenue / # of users present on the service in the quarter. They don't look at MAU or DAU for that calculation (if they did, they'd be reporting ARPDAU or ARPMAU, which are industry-standard terms).