Austin Carr
@austincarr.bsky.social
Features writer at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine & Bloomberg News.
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Bill Gates with your answer
May 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bill Gates with your answer
Still mad that Apple yanked my Flappy Bird into the cloud at some point...it worked for a long time after the dev originally killed it
January 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Still mad that Apple yanked my Flappy Bird into the cloud at some point...it worked for a long time after the dev originally killed it
Still being able to open these things brings back strong memories. I am sure @dens.nyc has way more digital artifacts than me, but Foursquare is one I will surely miss and never delete.
January 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Still being able to open these things brings back strong memories. I am sure @dens.nyc has way more digital artifacts than me, but Foursquare is one I will surely miss and never delete.
Our kiddo is the same:
January 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Our kiddo is the same:
If you don't like locked-up shelves, may I interest you in Walgreens' high-tech refrigerators??
New Businessweek feature on the wildly glitchy smart doors that sparked a $200 million lawsuit with Walgreens:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New Businessweek feature on the wildly glitchy smart doors that sparked a $200 million lawsuit with Walgreens:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
January 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If you don't like locked-up shelves, may I interest you in Walgreens' high-tech refrigerators??
New Businessweek feature on the wildly glitchy smart doors that sparked a $200 million lawsuit with Walgreens:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New Businessweek feature on the wildly glitchy smart doors that sparked a $200 million lawsuit with Walgreens:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
January 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. Grateful to get to spend another turkey day with this turkey
November 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. Grateful to get to spend another turkey day with this turkey
Rereading Jurassic Park, I enjoyed Crichton poking fun at the founder/VC dynamic: a Palo Alto startup raised $870m by misleading investors about product readiness, promising absurd revenues ($20bn/year!), hiding engineering problems, avoiding gov’t/board oversight.
A lovely passage on GPs involved:
A lovely passage on GPs involved:
November 23, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Rereading Jurassic Park, I enjoyed Crichton poking fun at the founder/VC dynamic: a Palo Alto startup raised $870m by misleading investors about product readiness, promising absurd revenues ($20bn/year!), hiding engineering problems, avoiding gov’t/board oversight.
A lovely passage on GPs involved:
A lovely passage on GPs involved: