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I have a friend who graduated from college a couple years ago with a liberal arts degree then went straight into Hackbright (women's only, I think). I did not have high hopes for her success but she actually landed a job pretty quickly as a javascript dev at a startup. She's still there and the company has raised multiple bigger funding rounds. I would guess her stock is worth quite a bit now. Good for her.

>Unless he does some smart investing

This is an investment. He didn't throw a $70 million party, he bought an asset he can sell in the future and which he presumably thinks will increase in value over time.

And anybody who just became a billionaire is not going to stick that money into a savings account, they will get hooked up with a very good financial advisor who will help them to grow their wealth. Say he has $1 billion, a decent but not great return on that would be 8% a year. That's $80 million! He could buy one of these every year, spend $5 million and still have $5 million left over. And that's exactly how he should and presumably will manage his wealth. You don't spend your wealth, you grow it and spend some of the income it produces. Which is precisely what any rookie financial advisor would teach him on day 1.

If you want to found a startup, I can think of a lot better ways to spend 2 years and $100k than getting an MBA.

Genius ranks very highly for many, many searches. Even without adding 'lyrics' to the search.

As somebody who hired developers at that time, it was far different from today. You could put a job listing up on Craigslist and have an inbox full of 100+ developers, many of whom had great resumes at name brand companies, who were willing to work for a few grand a month. Today it takes $100k+/year to get good people and even that isn't enough. You have to give them a reason beyond money to pick you over all of the other offers they are getting. They didn't care back then, as long as you could pay them.

Which would work for a version of two until they and everybody else realized Googles proprietary version is far superior, and they pay Google a licensing fee for every install, because they have no other choice.

I don't think Google is going to do that, they don't have to because Ads make them so much money, but they could.

Android could. If they spun that off into it's own company it would be worth tens of billions, minimum. It's headed toward a mobile OS monopoly. It would be difficult to overstate how valuable that is.

AdSense could as well. They roll that into 'advertising' but it has nothing to do with search or any of G's products - and it's a huge chunk of their advertising revenue. Even if search lost all of its marketshare overnight they would still bring in many billions every year via AdSense.

(AdSense is their ad network where they display ads on 3rd party sites, acting as a middleman between publishers and advertisers).

You might want to let their investors (who include Y Combinator) know - because they keep pouring money into Quora at ever higher valuations.

If we are, it should be called the Facebook Bubble. After their IPO when the stock lost half it's value, there was a severe market correction in VC as well. It got a lot harder to raise money. Now that the stock is up like 400% from its bottom, the money is flowing again. Want to know when the market will again correct? Just watch the price of FB. Or the new breed once they go public (Uber/Airbnb/Dropbox/Square etc).

Are you creating new threads asking questions in those niche subs or are you using the search function for old threads?

Does anybody know of a sub where stuff like this link would make the front page? And techmeme type stuff (fundraising etc)? I can't find anything like that. It certainly isn't /r/technology or /r/startups

He hasn't, beyond his 'reddit is city-state' thing.

I'm a heavy user of both and never made a connection between them. Them are very different I think.

However one thing Quora does way, way, way, way better is your feed (home page on reddit). It's really smart and accurate and unearths lots of great content. Not all of it fresh. Some of it even really old.

reddit should copy that.

Yishan Wong is the biggest power user Quora has ever had, so he surely knows and understands this.

Sounds like you are a banned spammer?

>Reddit is one of the most anti-racist/sexist communities on the internet.

We most subscribe to very different subs. I've never been a part of a community that had so much tolerance for racism. Some subs have rules against but most do not, and users take advantage of that. On most forums and other communities I've been a part of, you get instabanned for any whif of racism in your posts. On reddit you can pretty much say what you want (in most subs).

I like /r/funny =/

/r/nba is also awesome, along with literally every individual NFL and NBA team sub I have ever visited. Most are quick to ban opposing team fans for anything resembling trolling though. Tread lightly.

It's not that nobody cares, it's that all that you need to have a page is 'notability' and notability is defined as having media articles written about you. If I can get the New York Times and one other publication to write an article on the spider that lives outside my front door, I can create a Wikipedia article for that spider and nobody can take it down, per Wikipedia policy.

That they can opt out does not mean they can opt in.

CMV: I just checked out your sub and subscribed, it looks interesting.

You are technically correct that you can't just login to your broker one day and dump 5% onto the market - but there are ways to sell that amount of stock without crashing the price. A Secondary Offering is one way. It's basically doing an IPO over again but for an already public company. You can also sell directly to hedge funds/mutual funds etc. They have the opposite problem, wanting to acquire a large stake but being unable to because submitting an order for 0.1% would send the price to infinity.

Same. He certainly leaves open the possibility that she is creating those products as we speak.

Congrats on that much repeat traffic after only two months. Unless your Alexa is way off.

Alexa 94,000. It would seem this site has been around for awhile.

Methinks some people are taking advantage of the Show HN renaissance...

Next please teach us how to launch and make TC, the front page of HN and the top of PH.

Most people struggle to get even get one of those. The trifecta is quit impressive.

1. no, it helped them.

2. yes, it facilitated prostitution.

Apologies, I edited my answer (in response to heavy downvotes) before I saw your reply.

Calling her actions slimy was probably out of line.

You can tell from the beginning of those texts that she was planning this all along, or at the very least - preparing for it. She uses legal language throughout and says little else: 'stop threatening me' 'this is harassment' 'you are effecting my working environment' etc etc.

Got really excited about your site and clicked around to every page, only to discover you only have profiles for a handfull of companies!

That would be a really useful/neat tool if it covered...like...all of them.

I don't think you understand the type of investors that show up at demo day. Hint: they aren't writing the 8 and 9 figure checks you think Quora is hoping they'll write them.