jaweb · HackerTrans

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

"Some on Wall Street are puzzled as to why Spotify would want to go public without raising money"

I'm not sure it's that puzzling - they wanted liquidity, but don't need any more cash so don't want to dilute the existing equity.

Also worth noting a stat lower down the article that's a different point of view to the "down 10%" of the headline:

'$132 was used as a “reference point,” valuing the company at $23.5 billion. Since there was no IPO price, that demarcation is being used to say that Spotify traded up about 13% on its first day.'

Credit to them for doing something non-typical that fits what they needed. It seems like it's gone according to plan so far.

jaweb

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

GDPR is a rare area where I see as many positive and negative opinions on it in communities such as HN. Will be interesting to see how this develops with further fallout from the Facebook story, and with GDPR actually coming up to the deadline for implementation in May

jaweb

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Worth also noting - there are strong signs that this blacklisting is still continuing, despite the court cases (although not necessarily with involvement from the police) - https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/blacklistin...

jaweb

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

It's interesting how high profile this post-crash analysis is - name another time you read so much commentary about the details that caused a car crash?

It seems to me that this is exposing a few gaps in how we think about driverless cars currently:

  - A framework for how cars should be making "moral" decisions (the trolley problem [0])
  - A defined process for post car crash investigations - akin to the process in air crashes

Will be interesting to see if these emerge soon (or are emerging and I have missed)

[0] https://qz.com/1204395/self-driving-cars-trolley-problem-phi...

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