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alexweberk

25 karma · joined January 10, 2014

Founder of JumonAI (jumonai.com)
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alexweberk··on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo aside, it's sad to hear that some parts of the world still have blackouts. Which third-world country does "SF" belong to?
alexweberk··on I Quit Google Search for AI–and I'm Not Going Back
People quit Google Search to avoid "search-optimized junk" just to use AIs that answer using "Search" lol. Look closer at the sources your AI answers give you. They're not always pretty.
alexweberk··on Are Japanese Intestines Longer?
I feel betrayed. I want a clear answer!
alexweberk··on How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
So Google is a relatively "Flatt" organization.
alexweberk··on At Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, MBA startup fever takes hold
I wonder how they're going to repay their MBA tuition. Typically a tenure in consulting or high finance would pay for this. Perhaps some don't have this burden, but for many I assume tuition is paid in large part via student debt.

Are they planning to pay themselves large salaries from the get-go? Quite a culture to start a business on...

alexweberk··on Material UI
I hope they do away with the flare effect on button clicks. Just weird...
alexweberk··on Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)
Having thought about this idea in the past, I can say that one of the difficulty lies in the fact that the market "seems" really large, when in fact, you can only address a limited portion of it. People have different tastes and goals in what they want to accomplish in a "trip", and because the market seems so vast and large, the idea tends to gravitate towards the middle ground. You might satisfy a wide array of people, but none of them will really "love" your product. So rather than daily usage, I think the problem is of segmentation first (and competition, etc following...).
alexweberk··on Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires
It comes down to trust, really. What goes around comes around.
alexweberk··on With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds
That is a good point. There's definitely more value provided with SSD.