kunaalarya's comments

kunaalarya | 6 years ago | on: Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

They can be successful at it at scale because they already have a massive supply of drivers that they can allocate to rides or picking up food.

Amazon’s food delivery failed and closed last month. Caviar was sold to Doordash. Postmates is struggling.

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity

it's literally $325 right now so what's not correct?

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky

i mean it's a big reason why snapchat is worth what it is today.

edit: by that i mean, it's a big reason why they got a lot of their users.

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free

Gilt is a poor example because it's a nearly out of business discount shop. but Mr porter and most online stores will offer free shipping and returns. The exception are a lot of brand specific pages - 7formankind i always found to be really bad. But try all the hundreds of boutique web stores - i've never seen them charge for return shipping.

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Winners and losers in Amazon’s $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods

Why would this be an illegal one? It has the potential to be a big force one day but nothing near that now and WF and grocery delivery both have lots of competition.

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Uber CEO to take leave

No. That's what out of touch adults in tech thought.

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Uber Board to Discuss CEO Absence, Policy Changes: Source

They prob cant fire him but they can say that hes a big punching bag right now and bringing extra negative attention and he needs a break.

kunaalarya | 8 years ago | on: Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves

lyft somewhat had first mover advantage in SF. Uber had first mover advantage in every other city. Uber already existed in SF and was doing black car rides and a lot of people in NY/SF knew of it - which Uber used to leapfrog Lyft's first move advantage.

kunaalarya | 9 years ago | on: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

not sure where you got the slimfast nutritional info but they have 1g of sugar: http://slimfast.com/advanced-nutrition/#shakes

if it had that much sugar, it wouldve never gained a reputation for losing weight.

kunaalarya | 9 years ago | on: Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football

Football is much more tough than hockey and needs recovery time. Hockey is tough but Football you have running backs/WRs getting hit on every other play. You have the QB getting knocked down 3-5 times a game. The the offensive line is having a pushing and hand war with the defensive line on every single play while playing strategically and covering additional players. The WRs have to sprint on every play. And for special teams you have the opposite team running at you as you run at them.

kunaalarya | 9 years ago | on: Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football

i don't get this. You get a better view of the game on tv (multi-angles, commentary, etc.). You go to arenas for the experience, of getting there beforehand, tailgating, going with your friends/kids. You get a worse view but you get a better experience. Why would you use VR for a worse view without the experience?

kunaalarya | 9 years ago | on: Facebook launches Stories in its main app

that's true but it limits the growth potential and reach. Let Snapchat take a good portion of the teen market, while FB goes after everyone else.

kunaalarya | 9 years ago | on: How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

because you want to incentivize homebuying. Homebuying isn't just an investment. When your mortgage is paid off, it also means your cost of living when you can no longer work is much lower. It also means that you're less likely to be homeless or rely heavily on social services when you can no longer work. Homebuying also spurs a MASSIVE industry of homebuilding, and home furnishing, upgrading, etc.

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: Spotify as a simple case study in making something people want

you're probably thinking of Pandora's CTO who has a gorgeous house there. Spotify's founders are from/live in Sweden.

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

for their private jets

"Signature's project includes seven hangars for corporate jets, with five of those hangars to be used by Blue City Holdings, its primary tenant. That company will manage aircraft for Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose private jets are now parked at Moffett Field, where their lease is up next year."

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

not necessarily. a lot of Uber's drivers use cars that are financed through Uber and are effectively locked into Uber for 5 years (unless they step out of ridesharing). This is how Uber has been able to maintain a huge supply with great cars (vs. you don't know what you'll get with Lyft).

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

Asymco did a look into this last week http://www.asymco.com/2015/01/22/bigger-than-hollywood/

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: A startup CEO drives for Uber

How does this say anything about a bubble? if this were 1999, he wouldn't need to drive Uber cause his startup would be able to raise a couple million

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers

they said in their faq that they won't be taking a cut. Either this is purely for improving the ecosystem, or they're getting a cut from banks for cutting down fraud.

kunaalarya | 11 years ago | on: Inside Genius’s $40M Fundraise

replied to another comment with this, but:

- there's a large community aspect to it. large community of editors who analyze lyrics and discussions

- strong reputation within the hip hop community, a ton of artists will describe what certain lyrics mean and what their inspiration was for the song. It's a big way for artists to connect to their fans and it's used by a lot

- The preferred lyrics site for hip hop fans. Instead of searching through google and getting a top hit, people go to rapgenius and search. They're trying to be THE source for lyrics and annotations, not just a source you randomly find

- they're trying to expand this to other genres (rock, poetry, literature, etc.). they've had some success but being so tied to rapgenius hurt them (rock.rapgenius.com before, rock.genius.com now)