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Re:Who Controls OpenAI? on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:59AM (#38381779)
Twitter has some good info focused more on Holden Karnofsky rather than Dustin that seems a bit sus.
Re:In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:46PM (#13758960)
He's only saying "bullshit" to the guys claim they were originally making $20/mile... Sounds like from info you posted that both the $20 and the $2.75 per mile claim are completely wrong.

Kamel: “We started with $20.”

Kalanick: “Bullshit.”

Kamel: “We started with $20. How much is the mile now, $2.75?”

Re:The James Golick Grant for Women in Computology on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @09:54AM (#8844554)
this is great, donated
Re:Uber plays hardball with early shareholders on Friday June 20, 2014 @12:10PM (#7921312)
"At the same time that it was restricting the aforementioned employee from selling, Uber also was preparing to raise new outside funding that ultimately would value the company at more than $18 billion."

Read carefully, this was prior to that round closing. Assumably they'd offer more now. (~5x)

Re:Lyft Plus on Friday May 09, 2014 @02:16PM (#7722433)
Lyft becomes the taxi brokerage that monopolizes the kinda of car you can use.
Re:Lyft Plus on Friday May 09, 2014 @02:08PM (#7722376)
This looks desperate, Lyft is just grabbing for ways to stay relevant. I don't see how they ever raise enough to actually compete after giving away nearly 40% of their company on that last round.
Re:HipChat Alternatives on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:36PM (#7650330)
Everyone has been raving about it. Just raised $42 million today too.
Re:Poll: Do you work at a startup? on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:04PM (#7649314)
Not by your definition.