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Ilya Pestov

@ipestov

Analyst.

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Joined January 2015
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This is an astonishing story about the rise of green technologies with help of politicians like Al Gore and others, who were the direct beneficiaries of government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles. medium.com/@ipestov/an-incon…
An Inconvenient Truth: How Tesla Became a Trillion-Dollar Company

An Inconvenient Truth: How Tesla Became a Trillion-Dollar Company

Astonishing story about the rise of green technologies

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@ttunguz what do you think about this piece? medium.datadriveninvestor.co…
The Decadence of Venture Capital: How Modern Unicorns Are Bred

The Decadence of Venture Capital: How Modern Unicorns Are Bred

Previously venture capital was intended solely for scaling growth, now it is often used for creating positive unit economics.

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"DoorDash was selling pizzas from the restaurant for $16 while paying the restaurant $24 per pizza. Bird was losing $27 for every $10 it made on rides. There are a lot of examples of companies providing an investor-subsidized service: Uber, Lift, Life, We Work, AirBnB and others"
DoorDash was selling pizzas from the restaurant for $16 while paying the restaurant $24 per pizza. Bird was losing $27 for every $10 it made on rides. All their “disruption” consisted in selling a dollar for half price. medium.datadriveninvestor.co…
The Decadence of Venture Capital: How Modern Unicorns Are Bred

The Decadence of Venture Capital: How Modern Unicorns Are Bred

Previously venture capital was intended solely for scaling growth, now it is often used for creating positive unit economics.

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From the very beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak I was very uneasy with numbers of infected and dead. The definition of Covid-19 victim seems to be the "person who died AND having tested positive to the virus" rather than "person w…lnkd.in/gyxcyTf lnkd.in/g9zVNUG
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Coronavirus: a Dangerous Illusion of Mortality. This Russian article received half a million views just in few days — Worth reading. link.medium.com/5tazCCZow5
Coronavirus: a Dangerous Illusion of Mortality

Coronavirus: a Dangerous Illusion of Mortality

Every idea needs a Medium

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I just published How Uber Flawlessly Manipulates with Numbers in Its Earnings Report link.medium.com/77SjG0mmA4
How Uber Flawlessly Manipulates with Numbers in Its Earnings Report

How Uber Flawlessly Manipulates with Numbers in Its Earnings Report

Every idea needs a Medium

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I just published What awaits Uber after IPO link.medium.com/hMCgLltoUW
What awaits Uber after IPO

What awaits Uber after IPO

The only salvation for Uber is a fully operational “army” of autonomous vehicles.

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Baker’s Dozen of Facts About Startups What You Need to Know link.medium.com/g5lMSwEbHT
Baker's Dozen of Facts About Startups What You Need to Know

Baker's Dozen of Facts About Startups What You Need to Know

Dedicated for makers

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Grok Trends or What I Learned in 2018 by @ipestov link.medium.com/gFluuIYj9S
Grok Trends or What I Learned in 2018 – The Startup – Medium

Grok Trends or What I Learned in 2018 – The Startup – Medium

Grok is a word coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. ‘Grok’ means to…

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Learning to See in the Dark youtu.be/qWKUFK7MWvg
CVPR 2018: Learning to See in the Dark

CVPR 2018: Learning to See in the Dark

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01934Project page: http://cchen1...

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Big Data. 5 MB
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Technologies kill live communication...
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The logic of some well-known companies' logos
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A little bit more
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Truth of life
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Difference between machine learning and AI: If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI
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How a data mining giant got me wrong buff.ly/2pUgs91
A history of machine translation from the Cold War to deep learning, by @ipestov fcc.im/2GktinC
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Chris Ross@crossphd12 Mar 2018
A history of machine translation from the Cold War to deep learning - Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash I open Google Translate twice as often as Facebook, and the instant translation of the price tags is not a cyberpunk for me anymore. That’s what we... ow.ly/8HmO50gON3M
A history of machine translation from the Cold War to deep learning

A history of machine translation from the Cold War to deep learning

By Ilya Pestov I open Google Translate twice as often as Facebook, and the instant translation of the price tags is not a cyberpunk for me anymore. That’s what we call reality. It’s hard to imagine...

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