mdamore's comments

We're talking about a decade-old company with billions in revenue. If your job at AirBnb was your first chance to build any wealth, you never had the option to diversify. I don't think it's fair in that case to blame the employee.

I don't necessarily blame the management either. I do hope this reminds employees of private companies that their equity is only on paper until they are able to sell, and they should pressure management to give them the option.

I can only hope this leads to a backlash against high growth companies staying private for so long. Along with their jobs, I imagine many AirBnb employees have lost a majority of their (paper) net worth because they were not given the opportunity to sell and diversify.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I am glad Apple is leading the charge in getting rid of the headphone jack. My main problem with the MacBook event was philosophical inconsistency.

Apple removed every single port from previous pros EXCEPT the headphone jack, less than 2 months after arguing for the death of the same headphone jack. Are they implicitly saying that the headphone jack was more important than MagSage, or leaving one traditional USB/HDMI port? Now the flagship iPhone can't be plugged into the flagship MacBook, and neither can the lightning headphones I get in the box with my phone. I'd much rather they'd have just gotten rid of it entirely in favor of being consistent on their vision.

I hesitate to start using it for the same reasons. If it does catch on I would think Evernote has the most to lose here.

Despite reports of them struggling I don't see any clear competitors, but a central repository for all of my "saves" with tags and powerful search could give Evernote a run for their money.

Great to see a smaller, very open company remaining competitive against the giants in the space like Amazon.

I'm particularly excited to see how their B2 service will stack up to Glacier for half the cost.