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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. billion market capitalization as of this writing. .

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

LOL, I just realized the search on your site is powered by Bing… I believe this is what we call irony. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Just search some of these names on Google, and you’ll find the floaters. As somebody who is about 50/50.NET March 25, 2011 at 7:17 pm. March 25, 2011 at 7:29 pm.

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