We use Sphere ( https://www.getsphere.com ), and it’s the only good solution I know of for international VAT that handles everything end-to-end (registration, calculation, filing, and remittance).
We use Stripe Billing, and we actually use Anrok for US sales tax compliance. They’re solid domestically, but they don’t do international registration, filing, and remittance; they only do calculation.
There are also firms like VAT IT (vatcompliance.com) that can do this if you want to work with a more traditional service provider.
He's saying that while it may be more difficult to change strategic direction of a $50B company (Ford/Gm/etc.), once you do, you have a huge company and giant production line behind you.
FWIW, a lot of companies have non-solications in place to try and prevent this kind of behavior. They're far from fool-proof, and there is nothing stopping an employee from leaving of their own volition, but I would guess both of them have some sort of agreement in place not to poach talent directly.
A company is worth the percentage it captures of the value it creates. You alluded to it in your comment--Snap has a much lower headcount and an order of magnitude less operating costs, so if anything it kind of makes sense that they'd be valued at a relative premium.
Also, you may not like Snapchat, but to say it deserves to die when it both a) employs real people and b) clearly serves a market need is such a terrible thing to wish for.
If you check the website, you'll see they have lights built around the lens to "show friends your snapping." I imagine this was specifically built to assuage that concern.
The nuance you're missing here is that the author is always inserting at the front of the arraylist. So even though the list grows dynamically, it still needs to move every value one spot over.
e.g. arraylist: [0][1][2][3][ ]
Even though there is space left in the array, we still need to move all the values one index to the right to be able to insert at the front, which takes O(n) time. In contrast, inserting at the front of a linked list is simply a matter of moving pointers and therefore constant time.
> Even Paypal, who ostensibly should be doing this, charges $0.30 for payments for goods and services.
PayPal is doing this. At least, via their subsidiary Venmo. The first thing I thought of when you said "try sending $.001 to someone once" was "huh, I do that all the time on Venmo. Couldn't be simpler."
We use Stripe Billing, and we actually use Anrok for US sales tax compliance. They’re solid domestically, but they don’t do international registration, filing, and remittance; they only do calculation.
There are also firms like VAT IT (vatcompliance.com) that can do this if you want to work with a more traditional service provider.