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Wait how does the warrant work? Does it just show up after the deal is annoucned?

Ah, Thanks. I've never been to the FL Keys. I've got to get down there someday. Yea, everything down there is referenced by mile marker since the entire collection of islands is only accessible via one road, which is US-1. oh man your description of the Keys sounds legit, never even considered it previously :D

I was talking with someone the other day about online retailers that bring last mile delivery in house (or were in the process of attempting to). Does anyone know any public OR private online retailers that are making this an initiative? As far as I know only Amazon and Wayfair?

Congrats!! It was like 18ish months ago when I first hit a mil, I don't think I did anything to celebrate other than throw up an obscure fb status: "the first one is the hardest" -Drake ;D

5% of his money is in Tesla puts? In previous interviews he mentioned he had no position but fired a PM for shorting without driving the cars (albeit the story is from 2012). very interesting.

Does anyone recall whether there was a overall reason why amazon growth slowed in 2014?

The switching cost for most people is "I have X followers, and I've cultivated a list of people whose content I like and I don't want to start all over" for the vast majority of people on instagram, and doubly for the influencers who laypersons join the platform to follow. It's different than the followers on myspace you might be ok leaving behind because most of those were part of your offline network and you could reasonable expect to bring them with you to a new platform. Infact, I remember in 2006/2007 when my friends would tell me "you're still on myspace? you need to add us on facebook dude." You don't get that kind of conversion when you tell 1,000 followers on instagram to "follow me on VERO." I think there's probably a dopamine high from consistently picking up more followers, likes and other "engagement" activity. And anyone who monetizes on instagram has a significant switching cost in terms of $$. The "demographic that matters" is going to be on whatever platform Kylie Jenner is most active on, and Kylie Jenner has a huge monetary incentive to keep doing that on Instagram. On acquisitions, the thing that Facebook will need to acquire won't be obvious to regulators. it's not going to be another photo sharing app, or messenger -it's going to be something else entirely that isn't very apparent yet. Anything even remotely obvious and liable to be blocked is probably something they can just graft onto their existing userbase. I remember when they they bought instagram everyone up and down the street was saying it was evidence that facebook had no moat/and everyone kept saying "a kid in their basement could code an instagram competitor." I'm in the camp that says it was an amazing acquisition (hardly controversial at this point) but I'm not so sure history would have played out like a lot of people game if Instagram had NOT been acquired. I think it's not implausible that facebook could have successfully launched their own competitor. Now, especially armed with instagram, facebook has an amazing carrot-on-a-stick. Anything they want to drive people towards they can do so by leveraging more instagram followers & engagements through the new feature or platform. There is also more and more lock in from other properties such as tinder linking to instagram profiles. -- Just my opinion :D

I know this is late but twitch loses money. It's value is mostly strategic currently and they are going to try somethings to change that in 4th quarter...

I suppose they could try again... https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/14/amazon-shuts-down-its-hotel-booking-site-amazon-destinations/ Interesting. Was not aware of that. Maybe it's just a good move for Amazon to buy TRIP. Then they have a great plattform to sell everything related to travel and all the content TRIP offers. "Alexa reserve me a seat at that restaurant" "Just done it with my TRIP booking system." - "Alexa, buy me a ticket for the museum." "Just did it with Trip". Where can I find the best deals and best reviews on Hotels? On TripAmazonizor... mind blown. Suddenly feeling antsy about PCLN...

A lot of people seem to be saying “the ads don’t appeal to me” I think that if your are reasonable, of moderate political opinions and not particularly impulsive (the typical reader of this board) then Facebook doesn’t have a strong read on you/you’re not inclined to do much impulse buying anyways. There are people who can’t distinguish which google results are ads (or they don’t care). Facebook is an shockingly effective way to target and reach THOSE people.

Local Mom n' Pops crush it. My friend opened a barber shop last year. He spends $100-$200 a month on FB and says it's the most important advertising he does. It's roughly the same price or cheaper than buying ad space in a single local weekly paper and it sounds like it's a magnitude more effective. As Jay mentioned earlier, I also wonder if engagement declines going forward. I think a core audience will always be extremely active, but how big will that core be? I spend $1-2k per month on Facebook ads. It is quite simply the best Roi available no contest. If you use copywriting taught in “tested advertising methods” and combine it with Fb targeting you can go from cubicle warrior to financial independence in a single calendar year

Different engineering philosophies German: precision, handling, styling heritage. they don't see upkeep as some tremendous failure -its part the course for the handling and precision they trumpet. Japanese: reliability, efficiency above all else.

I ran a $20 ad on FB for my Wife's "small business" and the result quite frankly doesn't make sense to express in percentage terms. From then on they increased the cost of engagements but it is still far and away the best bang for buck. A $200 campaign brings in $2-3K "reoccurring" monthly revenue -for some reason if I spend more than that per month the marginal return becomes bad quickly. But up to $200 per month and I get a fairly sticky $2-3K increase in top line month over month. We pretty much eat the share of everyone who isn't advertising on FB (a lot of niches, and or older mom and pop businesses don't run ads at all on Facebook and just maintain a default page out of obligation).

I think i'd be free!

I'm long the preferred (in my PA and through a partnership) but I have this tiny nagging voice that keeps telling me investors have goldfish memory. I know it's not as direct, and the time scale is way different, but there always seems to be a new crop of investors who rush into the void to buy the sovereign debt of a country like Greece, dismal track record and all.