rchandna's comments

On: Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Be proactive with you...

[rchandna]

The Infracost Terraform Cloud run task is awesome!

[akh → rchandna]

Thanks! Yep, we're partners with HashiCorp and worked on that integration early on :)

On: Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders...

[rchandna]

I don't know if you guys are history buffs but...

On: Manyverse – A social network off the grid

[rchandna]

Won't this take up a ton of storage on my phone?

On: Ask HN: Programming 101 online course recommendati...

[rchandna]

I highly recommend Codecademy

On: Interview with YC's Ryan Choi

[rchandna]

Interview is with Ryan Choi, PM & Engineer at Y Combinator who focuses on YC’s Work at a Startup.

On: Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal

[rchandna]

I don't understand why Uber has been so obsessed with buying another company in the US food delivery market.

[uber473453 → rchandna]

The CEO is a banker. Naturally he sees M&A, not innovation, as the company's future.

[Jommi → uber473453]

It's been an M&A company for years now. Just look at its portfolio of ownerships in competing local leaders like Didi, Yandex and Grab. It's a perfect food delivery ride hailing super app investment fund!

[rswail → Jommi]

Didi and Grab weren't M&A to Uber, Uber in their cities/countries were acquired by Didi/Grab via stock.

[Jommi → rswail]

How is that different? You could just rephrase what you said to say:

Uber purchased non-trivial shareholder positions in their global competitors.

For example the case in Russia was a quite literally a merger. Uber and Yandex made a joint venture, which operates in Russia and some former eastern bloc countries.

[manigandham → rchandna]

Increase network, decrease spending to beat out a competitor.

[rchandna → manigandham]

True, I could see them going down the route of heavy discounting / price promotion.

[rootsudo → rchandna]

Distraction and probably an excuse why they have high liabilities.

I don't see the difference, personally.