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great point, thanks

Internals are great but they have reached their ceiling to an degree. Co-founders and me started new businesses and they are going very well.

Hey, can you give me an email or contact me via the email in my profile? I'd be interested to use the executive HH that you mentioned.

How would you find an equity investment firm that is interested?

I would say it takes similar qualities to master chess and scrabble. I've been to a scrabble tournament recently and it looks very similar to chess or go kids tournaments. It all starts with memorizing an opening in chess or specific sets of words like vowel words: https://word.tips/vowel-words/

Out of interest, how did you find out it was the white blood cells that were hurting the heart muscle? I have a history of myocarditis without any proper diagnosis.

I worked for Google at the time they went through the cookie iterations in the cafes. Personally I disliked all the cookies that ever came out of this project, mainly because they contained spices, I heard the same thing from many others.

After you got handed a cookie you were asked to fill out a feedback form on a tablet, which almost always is annoying.

But more importantly, the process of optimizing the ingredients left out many parts of what makes food enjoyable, temperature and texture for example.

I know this was meant to be a fun showcase of ML but to me this is still my favourite example of explaining misuse of ML technology where a simpler statistical model supported by expert opinion would have outperformed the taste of the cookies. Eg, any cookie expert might know that the number of people who like spicy cookies is only a small subset of all cookie lovers.

+1 for fair user treatment, but the way the laws are written, companies that serve users globally from within the EU will have a hard time competing with their international competitors under the new regulation. I just wonder if European law makers have thought this through.

Ok, let's assume this interpretation is correct.

Targeted advertising will require explicit user consent under gdpr since pii is collected. It's fair to assume that there is no big incentive for a user of a website to consent to targeted ads. Targeted ads are usually way way more profitable that contextual ads. If you are a large publisher, would you really want to have your company in the EU in future?

I think the guidelines for cookie laws are not comparable, since gdpr required explicit checking a box until the service can be provided as opposed to a not very intrusive box in the footer.

This guide does not clarify one important question: Does a company in the EU have to apply gdpr guidelines for none European users. If so, this would be a significant disadvantage for all European companies since their none European competitors obviously only have to comply for European users.

One scenario in which this would be very relevant: A website needs to show a very long consent form to users that want to use their service, under gdpr regulation. Under gdpr these consent forms are very alarming and they will have a drop-off rate. The drop-off rate of the form will be the competitive advantage of none European companies.

Hence, will we see an exodus of European startups from Europe to the US?

I understand, and that was my assumption. I thought it is not unlikely that such a place exists und some sort of regulation (eg. mandatory NDA's).

Happy to go into more detail about our profile via email: reinhoceros at gmail.com or let me know how to get in contact.