The author argued in 2011 that craigslist would be an afterthought within 10 years. Its revenue has grown from 122m when he wrote that to in excess of 380m now. I think he's pretty clearly wrong.
You seem to be a little naive when it comes to dating. Money by itself doesn't guarantee good partnership. There's also: personality, physical attractiveness, compatibility etc.
Travis Kalanick is clearly an adrenaline junkie. I understand the start-up CEOs need to be bold but he seems to completely lack the ability to evaluate and minimize risk. Good strategy isn't just about winning every battle, it's also about avoiding the battles you don't need to fight. Travis seems like he's never seen a fight he won't jump into. It's wild.
That reminds me of Sun Tzu. It also reminds me of, I forget who, maybe Jobs, who said not to even compete, just make your competition irrelevant. Ie. Find a way to not even have to fight the battles.
I remember being on holiday in Thailand and seeing selfie sticks about 3 years before they hit the mainstream in the UK. I wish I'd started importing them myself.
I'm an H-1B who would be thrilled to see these companies shut down. If they were removed, the competition for non fraudulent H-1Bs would dramatically reduce and the whole process would become much less painful. Fantastic if Trump actually acts on this.
Remember the interview where Trump said he ate fantastic chocolate cake and then launched cruise missiles toward Iraq (when in fact it was Syria)? Be careful what you wish for! You think he's going to kick out the Indian outsourcing companies, but it might be you who will be kicked out.
Given how awful wait times for green cards have gotten for Indians (even with a Masters from a top university (and sometimes even PhD...), if you apply now, you can expect to wait a couple of decades while for every other country but China you get it immediately), I think a lot of Indians are fine with gambling on drastic changes to be honest and seeing where the chips fall.
Not sure where you getting your information from - I've worked with ppl from the Middle East and Eastern Europe and it was taking them years to get their green cards. I know this guy from Lebanon who ended up moving to Canada to work for the same company he was working for in the US because he overstayed his h1b and was nowhere near getting a green card.
Not the parent, but he is right. If you are not from India or China, the GC takes about a year - once you find an employer who would apply for it. People who are from India or China wait for the same amount of time plus about a decade.
I often run into people who ask me about my immigration status and when I say that I am waiting for my GC to be done, they nod sympathetically, roll their eyes and tell about someone they know who "had to wait two years! Gosh!!". I tell them, with as much politeness I can muster, that I have been in the country for over 10 years, have filed for my GC 5 years ago,, and expect to wait another 5 to get it.
The waiting times for some countries suck but there's a reason for that.
If the US didn't have a considerable amount of immigrants from those countries then the times would be 8x less.
Same happens with Mexico. There are so many Mexican immigrants in the US already (legal and illegal) that getting a GC it's almost impossible now unless you have a legitimate marriage to a citizen.
Given the slow rate at which cutoff dates move, I fully expect it to take 20 years before the EB2 (essentially masters for those unfamiliar with the system) queue catches up to the present.
Anybody applying to become an employment-based immigrant other than those born in India, China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico or Philippines will get theirs processed in about a year. For specifics, see the table titled "Employment based" in the latest visa bulletin at https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...
I am an indian who had worked with one of them and i really hated it. The poorly paid employees are just kept waiting for an onsite opportunity to US or europe. The leads and managers are a disaster. It is good that it is happening and will help the indians and not just the US citizens. Atleast with this a huge number of employees with will not be abused with the onsite dream.
A non-indian friend of mine worked for one of them out of college and didn't love it either. And it's not just the H1-B abuse, there's a class action suit for discrimination against the few Americans they actually hire. Filed back in 2015, I can't find any news on where it went.
Anyway, seems like a crappy place to work all around. Except for management, presumably.
These managers dont manage they plunder and abuse. Now i am in another software product company in India the leaders / managers dont act that way. They motivate and lead by example and not take advantage of young and motivated associates aspirations
A more general question to ask based on this is: is there something about Indian culture (or people who grow up in India / Indian culture), that make many of the managers complete jerks?
The same question could be asked about corruption in India. A lot of Indians just seem overly eager to screw each other over, and lord it over each other. You see this in Indian colleges, with the so-called phenomenon of "ragging", which is really just socially accepted mental/physical abuse.
I just feel Americans (while many are total assholes), that the majority are generally much nicer as a people, and they don't treat each other like complete crap. What's wrong with Indian culture? How does Indian society manage to cultivate so many terrible people? (serious question)
I was born in India, lived there until I was 27, and then lived in US for 10 years. These are my observations, written in a hurry without much careful thought.
The petty corruption in the small scale is pervasive in India. I find that not the case in US. Most people one interacts with in US are honest (except car salesmen :). But at the higher echelons of society, the corruption is at a much larger scale in US.
I compare this with driving in both countries. In India the number of accidents are much higher, but the fatality per accident is much lower. In US, accidents are rare, but when it happens, the likelihood of someone getting killed is high. I think this is because drivers in India each try to squeeze out small advantages, and as a whole the traffic never gets to gain much speed, so when the inevitable accident happens, it is often not fatal. But in US, far more people follow the rules, everyone moves faster on an average, but the one careless driver in the group can cause much more damage.
I think of corrupt behavior the same way - the average Joe is not corrupt in US, so the society as a whole makes much better progress. But that leaves the system vulnerable to the action of one sociopath, so at the high end you see much bigger scandals.
as an Indian, on some level, i agree with you. there is something seriously wrong. over population, less living space, compromises, orthodox social structure, such a low income per person can be some reasons of such jerk behavior.
I've heard people from both India and China use high population and living space as a crutch and an excuse for the various problems of their countries. But the fact is, it doesn't hold any water.
Japan has a very high population density + high forest/natural cover, meaning people are squeezed into very tiny living space, yet the (generally) respectful and selfless way in which they treat each other (in general) is something most other counties learn from.
Similarly, Germany has 80+ million people living in a tiny parcel of land, but they're doing fine, and they've kept their country a beautiful and great place to live.
Just the condition of the streets in major cities in India tell a lot--strewn with garbage and resume. Yoy walk over empty McDonald's fries holders and cups, when you walk the streets of some cities. In some cities, you have a semi-open sewer system that runs by the road, creating a foul smell on evey street, and helping breed mosquitoes.
The almost repulsing and disgusting state of place places, the streets, and cities in general--tell a lot about the apathy of the people of the things that are outside their home.
This is a great take. Honestly, Travis seems like he is a competent CEO and for a pure technology company, he should be admired. The problem is that Uber's interactions with the broader public are so strained.
Thank you! Honestly, comparing this to a job screening is a great move because it reveals his analysis to be pretty silly. This guy is looking for "intelligence" and "beauty" as universally agreed traits whereas even businesses who are screening for "intelligence" are able to forced to search for specific and industry-relevant information. It would be like hiring a CEO with only an IQ test.
It's also the same with "beauty". Even industries that hire primarily based on beauty (modeling, acting etc) have widely differing criteria based on their own niche in the marketplace. American models are quite different to British models, for e.g. The French magazines require a different look to, say, German magazines. Catalogue models vs editorial models. Throughout Europe, various markets require different heights, different looks and different personas. That doesn't even take into account racial differences across the world.
> This guy is looking for "intelligence" and "beauty" as universally agreed traits
No, he's not. From the article: "beauty is a purely subjective trait whose interpretation may vary from person to person. Luckily it is not necessary for me to define beauty in this essay except to state that for any given beholder, it will probably be normally distributed amongst the population."
He's assuming a normal distribution but he's not assuming a universal agreed standard of beauty.
Nope. You mean you need a consultation firm that does all of this for you for a fee, of which there are many.
The EB-5 is a huge site for immigration fraud and in many cases it functions as a green card-for-cash exchange. In fact, the poor foreign investors who didn't understand this are now suing state governments and associated companies because they received no returns from their investment.[1]
Google "EB-5 fraud" for many many more cases but note that, unlike in most immigration cases, the fraud here is being perpetrated against the visa applicants, not the immigration service. There is no suggestion that they do not have the capital or that they have not received a visa, just that there are no returns.
