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Seems like this was note quite true.

CSGO finals had about 3m https://www.dexerto.com/news/e-league-csgo-major-breaks-view...

The 2017 Superbowl as one example, had 114M. http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/06/media/super-bowl-ratings-pat...

I care a great deal about this story as someone who went to UVA and worked both there and afterwards on issues of sexual assault prevention and awareness.

But why is this on Hacker News?

MoveOn.org - remote

Hiring for a CTO

Job Description: Working together with our EDs and leadership across the organization, MoveOn’s Chief Technology Officer will vision and drive technology to serve MoveOn’s 8 million members. You’ll work closely with your own team of 2-4 developers (to be hired by you), as well as MoveOn.org Civic Action and MoveOn.org Political Action’s terrific, small (25-30 people), and tight-knit staff.

In full transparency, my wife works at MoveOn and I am advising them on this role and some of their future tech plans. I have always been impressed by how they work. The entire team is remote and the wage should be competitive for a manager level position - doing both some coding and some people management. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to me or go directly to the job post here:

http://front.moveon.org/about/jobs/#CTO

I took my first programming class in college. I was originally going to be an english major, and then changed my mind. I went on to earn a major in computer science, have worked in the field for more than 6 years and was the CTO of a successful startup which I sold earlier this year.

I see no reason why anyone should be questioned for wanting to try out a course of study.

Congrats to the Caviar team! My wife broke her leg two months ago and Caviar was a lifesaver to help us avoid the boredom and monotony of pizza and Chinese food every night.

Perfect Audience (Part of Marin Software) San Francisco, CA

Looking for Fullstack Web Engineers, High Performance Java Engineers (up to 100,000 requests a second), Front End Developers and Dev Ops Engineers:

http://www.perfectaudience.com/jobs/

We are a former YC startup that joined up with one of the big players in our space (digital advertising) to take our cool ideas and scale them up for huge companies and huge amounts of data. Come check us out!

Fastly can easily be setup on top of s3 and we have been super happy with their basic layout and then their advanced features as we needed more (ssl content delivery, selective purging, etc)

This seems like exactly the sort of advice that is great in retrospect once you reach scale but is effectively useless until you hit that point. There are far more important things for a startup to worry about (product market fit, retention, stability) than how to make the tech side of an acquisition easy.

No worries! All of us over at PA were more amused/surprised by the analysis than reading malice into it. Just very strange to have it happen to you!

Yeah, could not agree more. The thing with partners is that they are almost always actually 1) customers or 2) sellers in relation to you. So what is actually happening is you are spending lots of time, working on implementation and product vision for a one-off customer.

This is distracting from your core product and your evolution and scaling of that core product. I have never seen it, across both working at Perfect Audience and as a consultant before that, be worth it when you are working on something small, ie a startup.

Thanks Jacques! Your writing, especially about the business of startups was one of the things I read when just starting out and when the times got tough.

Just to echo Brad from the tech side specifically - HN has been a tremendous source of help, advice, network and everything. It really has made much of what we built possible in that I cannot imagine doing this without HN and the people we have met here.

From having Jedburg reach out when I had some foolish question about high-concurrency applications, to the number of folks who helped us trouble shoot a burgeoning Mongoid/Ruby memory problem at the very beginning - Thanks a million!

1) that joke was sexist, and Brad Feld's follow up after she called him out was more sexist. She may have a relationship with Brad which supersedes the joke itself and that makes it okay in the narrow context of their relationship, but that was a sexist joke.

2) I don't view men as oppressors, but I do think we as men have privilege and that is why we need to work with each other on the issue of sexism. I do not find her language condemning, but I have been working on issues of gender for several years now.

In all honesty, I would love to hear more about why Shanley's language does not work for you as I think her core points are excellent and I would love to know what language to help share this with others.

I agree that this is balanced advice, but I worry that it is actually another way of masking the problem. In the example she gave with Brad Feld, his response to her critique wasn't really LESS sexist, just more absurd. That may just be an issue with the the example though.

In a broader sense, intent is nearly impossible to determine, and it's dangerous to put the responsibility for understanding intent on the party that is being offended. I edited a comics section in college, and I am not sure how I feel to this day around the nature of offense and intent, but taken to an extreme this feels similar to someone telling girls to dress conservatively to avoid rape - its not HER job or MY job to make sure that something dumb is not done by another party.

This is why I am always so impressed by your writing Jason. Thanks for 1) taking to the time to write these articles and the more advice-style ones, they have always been useful to me as a founder and 2) being honest and open (to the extent appropriate) in these articles. Being a founder is an exercise in self-doubt above everything else, and its important to talk about.

Because it limits the impact of those with immense wealth to unduly impact the funding goals of those running for office.

This is interesting, but week on science or quantitative data. Some of the randoms stats sewn throughout don't even agree with each other.

Longboxed seems pretty neat! Where are you currently pulling that data from?

I think you are misunderstanding that most Comic Book Store Owners are also fans, and are always eager to get the most ways to access content out there. Also, Comixology (currently at least) has their Comics Retailer platform (ie https://isotope.comicretailer.com/ for my shop in SF, Isotope) that allows these shops to make some (admittedly less) money per issue with no inventory, no pre-ordering and no liability for unsold comics.

I don't get this response or AznHisoka's - this seems like fantastic advice on how to build a startup. It's the team that is going to solve the biggest, most interesting problems that are harder than one person, and being able to pull together that group and make them happy and effective is hugely difficult.