It amazes me too. But we have to remember that although there was no product innovation, there was business model innovation for that niche market. Online subscriptions for razors were not a thing.
Atlassian has just launched Stride as a cheaper alternative. I'm planning to test it out soon to see if it hits the mark for your second requirement too.
Great post, Artlav! Great to hear from you after Exosphere in Chile last year. Eager for the next part of the project and hopefully you get some funds for your always interesting ideas.
Hi guys, author here. The initial interest is being used to start conversations with immigration departments from small states around the world. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Netherlands already use a points-based system to grant visas for skilled workers. The idea is to create a standard international certification that would allow skilled migrants to move freely around countries that accept it, just like they do with TOEFL for the English language requirement.
I'd recommend you make your intentions a lot clearer. A simple front page with no explanation of what to expect combined with a single link to a cryptic manifesto page [1] isn't what I'd engage with.
Your ambitious phrasing makes it really hard to discuss in contexts like HN, people focus on the part where what you are talking about doesn't actually exist.
I would guess the political problem is a lot harder than the technical one. Zero sum thinking and all that.
Really? What if some of these immigrants create more successful startups (like many have done before), generating x new jobs and even some "Netflix"s, paying really high salaries?
>Newcomers don't just take jobs, they create jobs!
Probably, in the long run. In the short term they will depress wages, and we don't know how long that short term will last--could be decades.
If you allow 10 million programmers into the US, it will severely depress wages for programmers already living here. For those people wages will likely not recover in their lifetimes.
It's a complicated topic but there were real world "experiments": In 2004 in Europe:
"By allowing anyone in the eight relatively poor new members of the EU to come and work freely, Britain, Ireland and Sweden are putting these claims to the test. All seventy-five million people in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now free to move to Britain and work. Since wages in Poland are typically only a fifth of those in Britain, Poles have a big incentive to come and work here. If opponents of immigration are right, Britain should now be deluged with East Europeans and unemployment should be soaring.... But it isn’t. In fact, only 427,000 East Europeans have so far applied to work in Britain (many of whom were already in the country illegally) – and most stay only briefly: net migration from eastern Europe was only 48,000 in 2004.5 Unemployment remains at thirty-year lows, tax receipts are up and jobs that British people no longer want to do are being filled."
However, those are western civilizations which value rationality and equality. Rationality and equality (and inclusiveness) aren't values in a great many cultures.
You should really travel more, especially to cultures where you consider are below yours. Hopefully one day you'll come to the realization that humans are not that different from each other.
First, no-one mentioned cultures being superior until you did. Why is being rational, equality-oriented, and inclusive in your eyes superior?
Second, I'm sure there are some wonderful people in cultures where women (for example) are considered second class citizens. If I travel there and return with some feel-good anecdotes, I fail to see how that changes anything.
This is an easy problem to solve. You can start open borders restricted to EU. This is a reason for particular implementation of open borders, not a reason against open borders.
There is also a the income : cost of living balance and barriers of language & culture.
Another thing I wonder if they can take advantage of welfare? Can a polish person get UK welfare and NHS services indefinitely if they just move there?
As a Canadian living in the UK on a temporary work visa I get to vote (LOL THE QUEEN IS ON THE LOONIE), and am served by the NHS for emergency stuff but my visa says "no recourse to public funds" which I'm pretty sure means I don't get things like disability benefit.
Pensions on the other hand, I'm not sure about. I'm getting tax relief for my pension contributions, but maybe there will be a withholding tax if I leave without naturalising.
European Union citizens who are habitually resident in another EU country are entitled to receive welfare benefits. (The current UK government wants to renegotiate this arrangement.)
Were I live this is being debated: People can come here, have kids and move back and have significant amounts of money thrown back at them over the border.
The text could include more info on vesting schedules and some examples. It's surprising how many professionals still never heard of vesting schedules when joining a startup (specially outside the US), and as influential as YC is, I bet a good explanation there would be very helpful. "Vesting or no company at all :)"
Your lawyer is going to set up your vesting schedule for you, so all you really need to know is "four year vesting, one year cliff, vesting monthly after the cliff".
