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Philip I. Thomas
on WeWork Hires Apple Executive to Oversee Products
“It sounds like WeWork wants to focus on social products, while the main reason people use WeWork is to get work done. It signals to me that they have a retention problem, but that they think that social rather than office space is their core product.”
David Stewart
on Volvo in Talks to Acquire Luxe Assets
“Curtis and Sean (CEOs of Luxe/Zirx) are both highly analytical people, and before they launched their businesses they crunched a lot of data to independently conclude that on-demand parking could pencil out. So did their investors. And for a while the model looked promising.”
Jory Des Jardins
on The Problem With Former Googler’s Anti-Diversity Memo
“I was recently on a panel with a female VC who, well-meaning, basically said, Ladies, I don’t care if you are a male or a female, just show me that you can make numbers and I’ll fund you (on a later-stage series). On the face of it, her comments sounded encouraging, but consider how difficult it is for strong female founders to even get to that point of proof.”
Patrick Giblin
on Kalanick Believes He Still Has Right to Appoint New Uber Directors
“Truly a Greek Tragedy…”
Calum Barnes
on Netflix Carries Outsize Debt to Fund Original Content
“While I think that the planetary-scale cinema would be amazing for consumers. I think Spotify’s inability to find a profitable business model in between record companies and consumers shows the same woes that Netflix likely would have faced. Finding a working business model may have been very tough.”
Martha Josephson
on Kalanick Took Steps to Regain Board Control at Uber
“Grudging respect for this Game of Thrones drama. We will learn from this in future years.”