Four short links: 2 Sep 2021
Grawlixes, Getting Married at IBM, Australian Tectonic Plates, and Salesforce's Burn
- Grawlixes are the now-traditional characters used to suggest anger, confusion, obscenity, resentment and other likely emotions behind the language. Eg “what the #@*% are you talking about?” (Cory Doctorow)
- At one point, IBM fired women if they got married. At the end of WWII, they wanted to hire men who had fought in the war and wanted jobs.
- “I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they changed the law, and I got married.” (The Atlantic)
- Australia sits atop one of the fastest-moving tectonic plates in the world. They move about seven centimetres north-east every year. (SMH)
- Salesforce’s burn: $30M to get to IPO
- 1999: $0 revenue/ burned $5m
- 2000: $5m revenue/ burned $33m
- 2001: $22m revenue/ burned $14m
- 2002: $48m revenue/ +$3m free cash flow
- 2003: $86m revenue/ +$19m free cash flow
- IPO 2004 (Twitter)
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