A significant number of individuals using this rule use it in bad faith. E.g subletting the place without paying the landlord rent because they cannot be evicted. The landlord will never be paid and take a loss
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TL;DR YMMV, but it's much more valuable to learn a selection of "winning moves" you can apply than it is to learn a bunch of "losing moves" not to apply.
Working in a startup will brand you as a startup person and help you meet VCs which may make it easier to raise. It'll also show you the problems that that particular startup faces and give you n=1 degree of pattern matching. On the flip side, something like YC can give you the same benefit or just shipping a for-profit side project on the side. Additionally, given how poorly run most startups are today, I'd posit that you're actually in more danger of learning the wrong lessons than the right lessons by joining a startup. At the end of the day, the truth is likely to be Peter Thiel's observation that joining the right, highly successful, high growth startup as a very early employee is a great way to learn exactly 1 method of starting a successful company--the way that company did it. But if the startup you join isn't that rocketship, you've only learned how to (or how not to) achieve that particular path of failure or mediocrity.
Not particularly great advice though, because then the challenge becomes identify those startups. And if you could do that reliably, I'd suggest you switch careers into VC instead :)
Brake pads don't seem like they should be different on an EV. It's really just the engine components that should have less wear and tear and those only come into play at the 30k and 60k mark
But the vast majority of people can't understand math so fall for the argument of tips needing to increase to help match inflation.
The unfortunate reality here is that it's really hard to tell if discrimination actually happened because appraisals are all fluff anyway and that kind of a difference between two different appraisers isn't at all surprising. It's quite possible they got a conservative appraiser who didn't understand the neighborhood and market and played to caution. You'd be surprised how often this happens. Just removing personal effects from the home tends to up the appraisal rate by itself. The only way to really know if this is discrimination is to have the same appraiser appraise a model match of the house itself on a similar timescale with someone different answering the door. But you almost never get the chance to run the same experiment twice.
All because you can't imagine a way to do it doesn't mean it can't be physically done. This is a lesson kids. Randos on the internet can be wrong. Even with high conviction
The VPE today is getting more equity but the startup is overvalued and won't exit to the public market at the save growth rate. 10 years ago, you'd get less equity but the valuation is also lower so your multiplier is significantly higher.
Case and point, Peter Thiel's investment into FB at 5m valuation at today's market is likely a multi hundred million dollar valuation. Which VPE do you think is getting the better deal?
1. Practice leet code until you can solve all medium and some hard questions.
2. Apply cold or find people on blind, LinkedIn, etc willing to refer you.
3. Use your leet code skills to pass the interview.
If you do all 3 steps, I guarantee you will get a job in startup world. These steps may have challenges but all are achievable of you put in the hrs.
Bonus: do well in that job for 2 years and then you will be able to hop companies if you like
Join Meta. Move to Silicon Valley. Then tell me what you're experiencing 2 years later.
In housing, EVERY OWNER BELIEVES THEIR HOME IS WORTH MORE THAN IT IS, and will be offended by a fair offer. Period. The failure of their lead designer to realize this after all these years is just one signal into why Zillow couldn't succeed where Opendoor did.
The only people at FB who design algorithms are ML Engineers under the SWE ladder. You can immediately disregard this piece.
Solomon's "outsider" comment is ironic since multiple of us in the room from Docker did, in fact, formerly work at Google and go to Stanford. He walked into that room assuming Google would have those prejudices and that's all he could see.