Nvidia’s self-driving-car business grew out of a long-standing relationship with auto companies. Car guys used Nvidia chips for computer-aided design, then used Nvidia supercomputer chips to do crash simulations. When the car guys started thinking about autonomous vehicles, Nvidia leaped at the chance to help them solve the problem. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you’re staking something more precious – your time. And unlike VCs, you can’t spread your risk by betting on a bunch of companies at once. Start with TAM. That’s ‘total addressable market,’ and if it’s not big enough, there’s no point in talking. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won’t agree to hefty severance, pass. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
The world of online marketing, where HubSpot operates, though, has a reputation for being kind of grubby. Our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers or gaming Google’s search algorithm or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
If your plumber or pool installer or local appliance store uses HubSpot software, HubSpot may be holding information about you without you even knowing it. We figure we’re safe when we use online services. We figure we can trust the people who run them not to snoop on us. I used to believe that. I don’t anymore. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
These days a typical netizen has dozens of online accounts. If you really want to be safe, you need to have a different password for each one, and each password needs to be incredibly complicated, with a mix of capital letters, symbols, and numbers. Who can keep all that stuff in their head? Daniel Lyons Read Quote
Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don’t want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
Instead of inventing a gobbledygook password, you join three simple words that come from a thought known only to you. If one day you were driving to work and ran over a frog that ended up flat, you might choose ‘frog work flat.’ Daniel Lyons Read Quote
