This got me googling a bit since I hate giving people my information that are not upfront with me about who they are.
Their trademark registration at
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:wpr... lists "(APPLICANT) ExhibitDay, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 300 Bethesda MARYLAND 20852" as the address. I also found that address at several of these weird online company listing sites:
> That address seems to be a "virtual office" (aka paid fake address?)
A virtual office is basically coworking, except you have your own assigned space (you still share everything else like printers, meeting rooms, etc). They can accept mail at that address and probably go to work there, so it's not "fake" perse.
Yeah, hello? This is the most atypical model possible for older tech workers. A hugely successful hospitality CEO joins a tech startup disrupting the global hospitality industry. How is that experience instructive for anyone except Chip Conley? Emotional intelligence in Mr. Conley's world apparently doesn't require any sense of irony. How hospitable.
My typical co-workers have always been 20-30 years older. The ones that stand out and have been the most productive teaming across generations have taken Chip's approach. The older engineers that focus on "how to technically implement a feature" miss out on (and often suffocate) the potential creativity of younger engineers.
SF is a small city, relatively bike friendly city. Most residents who would bike around own their own bike. Tourists could use them but why would they when the main tourist zone is easily walkable, Uber is cheap to get elsewhere and the hills deter biking anyway.
You've got an inverse situation in NYC where the bike share became part of the point-to-point transit system, covering a huge area. You can't bring a bike on the NYC subway and you wouldn't want to anyways. Residents overwhelmed the rideshare the first few years. Adventurous tourists used it a lot too.
Actually the mix has stayed fairly steady over the years. If anything the technical posts have upticked a bit. Sometimes when this comes up I pick a random date and look in the Internet Archive for the front page that day to see what sort of differences leap out. Maybe I'll do that again.
Yeah this is what attracted me to the site as well - if you look in the wayback for "hackernews.com" you will find a site that was somewhat controversial when it first came out ~99-00. At the time it was, to my knowledge, one of the first public "hacker" WWW sites as compared to locations on underground networks. I also hated it because I had dialup at the time and it took forever to load all those fancy graphics.
I don't know if "free market actors" is exactly the right way to describe the two things he talks about. War is certainly not a function of the market, Wall Street is kind of a grey area that uses the language of free markets to describe something that is an odd state-empowered cartel. Clearly the bailout was not a "free market" event.
So...I don't think he is implicitly or explicitly saying anything about China's authoritarian regime. It wasn't free markets that lost the money he's speaking of. And, there wasn't a trade of that money for political freedoms and economic opportunities. The American people just got a bad deal out of their government and their financiers. They didn't buy freedom with that money, they just got fleeced.
He is not comparing China or any other specific country to the US. He is giving his views on where the US could have done better.
Yes, you should read this in the light of him being a successful Chinese businessman, but he is not saying that Chinese people live better than US people.
