yes, public transportation is very important to spread the liveable area beyond commutable distances. That would mean more land to build on. A more expansive and well connected BART network would be very beneficial.
This a pretty solid recommendation. Mayer has pivoted yahoo strongly towards content and BuzzFeed is pretty much the most solid content start up out there right now. It sounds like an obvious purchase.
You judge a merger by how the combination will unlock new value. Just because the business models are similar doesn't necessarily mean it's a good acquisition. I don't see how BuzzFeed can benefit with Yahoo other than perhaps accessing its ad sales network?
Depending on your needs, mongo has a much nicer interface than redis... Not to mention supporting indexing in the DB instead of having to DIY your own... I used it at a site that did mostly classified listings, and the performance was a lot better than the SQL RDBMS that was being used for search/display.
Yes, I agree. But regarding my comment, the use case was caching with persistence. Redis has some persistence options (pure snapshot or pure journal), but they just aren't its primary use case and aren't nearly as mature or performant as MongoDB's memory-mapped filing. Also Redis is key-value so requires manual indexing, i.e. much more up-front developer effort.
Mm, I don't put much stock in that. Basically, talk is cheap. Marcus posted a lot of flowery language and PayPal's activity does not appear to have meaningfully changed.
The MailPile thing happened at the beginning of this month - the fact that this can happen at all, and, as usual, nothing was fixed until that bad press started to roll in, points to a systemic problem and culture at Paypal that just changing a CEO isn't going to fix in a reasonable amount of time.
I can tell you from personal experience and experience of 25-30 others here.. Its a smoke screen. The last few people who tried to do what David says to media have either been canned or now serving in timeout zone. Again the President means well but culture internally is much worse. Its a company filled with people whose skills are way past their prime trying to hold on to what little mileage left. David wants things to change but the middle layer won't. More often than not they are the ones who make calls on day to day operations. Many senior execs who tried to get shit done were moved out by these politicians. Even today diplomacy/politicking is valued in the company over talent or Data or logic/reasoning.
as far as topic at hand is concerned, MR from Braintree will be working closely with DM and directly. So expect only good things. Buying Braintree is a business play. (Just check out their numbers and clientele). PayPal can try to get clients like AirBnB or Uber but those startups would try every other bush before PayPal.
Hope this helps
P.S: I work for PayPal and probably one of the strong proponents of it. The above opinions are purely mine. and No i have not been canned or put in a timeout box.. yet!
I've seen similar anecdotes before, but what I don't understand is why obstructive middle management haven't been shown the door. If it really is a mid-level problem how can the politicians manage to hold off executive management? And if they really are the problem, and both the front-line guys and executive level are willing to change, what reason is there to keep the naysayers around instead of firing and then promoting from within?
Google never liked the idea of buying company for patents. They always said that the money would be better spent on engineering. Unfortunately the patent war is something no one can escape from.
I agree with the previous comment...a new site should focus on usability as the site has one chance to create a good first impression and have a repeat visitor. Another good feature to have is a feedback dialog. Site can be vastly improved based on constructive feedback by diligent users.
The site should also be crisp in its message as to what service it is providing.
