Thank you all! I am incredibly grateful to the HN community, I am finally getting in touch with a real person at Stripe who can hopefully rectify this situation.
I knew Fahim personally. I know people who spoke to him the day of about this very issue, so I have some information that most people don't. I absolutely do not believe this kid did it.
Fahim was well liked in Nigeria but he was disrupting a dangerous market.
Tyrese had recently purchased and signed for the taser that was used in the attack. He was at home depot buying cleaning supplies right after the murder. That's some very significant evidence.
1) For one thing, he was not the only running a well funded motorcycle transportation business in Nigeria.
2) He had already pivoted into last-mile delivery and again he was not the only one running a well funded one
3) Let's even assume his motorcycle transportation was disrupting a dangerous market, it is basically the same market that Uber and those before Uber disrupted in Nigeria and nothing like this happened
It depends on what you mean by "live." Twilio video is WebRTC, so it's very low latency. (Much lower than IVS.) But Twilio scales only to 50 people watching at a time, and costs ~10x what IVS costs.
On the other hand, IVS scales to an infinite audience. But IVS has 4+ seconds of latency. Which might not be live enough for your use case.
With IVS, you'll also need some way of capturing the video, encoding it as RTMP, and sending it to AWS. Not terribly hard if you've done a fair amount of video work previously, but not trivial if you haven't.
If IVS is roughly what you need, it's very much worth looking at Mux. Great APIs, great support, been around much longer, and there's excellent sample code for building stuff on mobile.
If you do need interactive latency (<200ms), you might also want to check us out at Daily.co. We compete with Twilio programmable video, have been around roughly as long, scale to 200 people in a live session, and we can stream to Mux for infinitely scalable recording and IVS-style live distribution.
If the hotel industry ever got its act together, they could really use this for a great marketing push.
Advertise the fact that AirBnB lets racial discrimination go unabated, unlike the hotel industry which is regulated for this. Younger, more liberal minded individuals will be less likely to use AirBnBs.
The sharing economy is based on trust. Unfortunately there is some cultural baggage around this, but it is no fault of Airbnb.
I reserve the right to discriminate who can stay at my house. Similarly, when I am traveling as a solo (white) dude, I expect that it is tough to find a place to stay on Airbnb.
If someone rejects me, no big deal. Sexist? Probably but I understand.
The problem with being the Internet Portal for Old People is that old people have a bad habit of dying. So unless you're also the Internet Portal for Middle-Aged People and the Internet Portal for Young People, when the current crop of old people bites the dust, they get replaced by a new cohort who bring along whatever habits they developed while you were ignoring them.
It's important to note that when the investment was made, enterprise tech companies (like Workday) like were getting a really high valuation, whereas consumer tech companies weren't doing so well. Investors like a16z probably wanted to invest as much as possible before the enterprise IPO market would go south. Moreover, I am sure investors probably had strong liquidation preferences, ensuring a profit in the case of an exit or IPO.
We're now seeing the downsides of their thesis. Workday's market cap has since cratered, down 33% in the past year, indicating a weakening interest in the enterprise IPO market. Zenefits itself has a number of growing concerns- regulatory and competition concerns (ADP is only getting better by the day).
He's not a dev, strictly speaking, he's the new president of SourceForge Media. That actually raises my hopes, as the brass roughing it out in the comments and interacting is a rare thing these days.
Weird how a company can experience NEGATIVE growth for something like browsers and search