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lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Former Away employees describe a toxic work environment

The micromanagement seems like a common trap for junior-ish CEOs/Founders to fall into...but those Slack screenshots are something else.

lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street

Wonder what the pricing in on that location data is for financial sector customers, and if it's cheaper than a regular purchase of satellite data. It'd be interesting to compare the mobile location data to the satellite data and find the deltas— that would make it a lot easier to build efficient models w/ existing satellite if it's cheaper.

lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street

This example of counting cars has been around the geo industry forever, and satellite imagery is pretty cost prohibitive to get on a regular basis. I'd be surprised if hedge funds haven't already moved on to purchasing location-based data (ie mobile phone data) to get even more accurate counts of people in box stores.

lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report [pdf]

While margins in on-demand are usually pretty slim, companies can get pretty creative about opening up revenue streams: ad-serving, corp partnerships, enterprise pricing, licensing out tech).

None of these are a silver bullet, but they open up new growth that isn't tied to the standard hockey stick growth curve people use to get funding.

lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Raytheon, United Technologies Merger Will Create A New Aerospace Giant

Satellite imaging is the same way, too. It's pretty hard to be an independent commercial satellite imaging company—most have been scooped up by MDA (Digital Globe) or PLanet Labs (Skybox, Rapideye)

Wonder if Capella Space will break through.

lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

I love learning how the English language has evolved.

Public service announcement: If you're into this stuff-check out the Allusionist Podcast: https://www.theallusionist.org/listen

It's full of fun stories like these. One of my favorite language nuggets—the word "guys" is an eponym—most historians trace it back Guy Fawkes.

lil-scamp | 6 years ago | on: Cruise’s self-driving cars perform 1,400 unprotected left turns in 24 hours

I’ve seen them making unprotected left turns down in the financial district in the evenings—it’s a lot more complex in mid day with full traffic. Looks like the cars on the video are making riskier turns than I would make!