Shafin Damani

lominming:

Ron Conway once said: “There’s a billion company created every 3 months. Now, it is every 2 months”. I finally got the chance compile “The Billion Dollar” list. I tried to limit this list to only software tech companies. I also included a couple of near billion dollar companies (~0.7 B and above).

nowaternomoon:

This year’s Y Combinator Startup School at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium was high-energy, had about 2,000 attendees (my first Startup School) and a great lineup of speakers. My top 3 favorite speeches were those by Travis Kalanick of Uber, Ben Silbermann of Pinterest and Ben Horowitz of…

eranki:

Rajiv Eranki <rajiv.eranki@gmail.com>

I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. For most of that time we had one to three people working on the backend. Here are some suggestions on scaling, particularly in a resource-constrained, fast-growing…

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

It’ll take some time before I know how to do this:

chartsnthings:

On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever. In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best explain and contextualize this offering to readers. What follows is a series of sketches from Amanda, who shared her project folder with me for this…