But is that that really the standard you want to hold yourself to when building a multi-billion dollar company? Being better than waiting for a cab in the rain? Uber is a premium service, and exists because of how bad the incumbent is/was. I commend Travis for holding Uber to a higher standard, and I think it is the role of users/fans to let him know when they fail to meet their standards.
Seattle-based Amazon will have no role in the purchase; "Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days. The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter."
hmm, 5000 years passed in the west as well and presumably people were also learning in the west.
in the end, it is not how long knowledge has accumulated in a place but how open people are to learning from others.
And how open is often a crap shoot accident of history. The US forced Japan open when Admiral Perry paid Tokyo a visit. Had he only gone to North Korea instead, history would have been completely different.
They are not just rigid. They are exceedingly strict beyond comparison. having spent a little time in the Indian system, this I can assure you.
It's also no surprise that the biggest hit movie of India in the past few years was about how rigid the education system is and how students should be allowed to pursue their own passions, rather fulfill their parents desires.
As for China, what they've gained culturally in the last 5000 years became irrelevant once communism took hold.
I wanted to start with startups because they have the most difficulty finding candidates and have the least resources in terms of recruiters/HR/etc to help. YC has a great list of awesome startups so I figured they would be a good jumping off point. I may expand later but I'm not sure how/when that will happen.
