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Benjamin Tseng
Personal blog · benjamintseng.com · on HN as benjamintsengstartupseconomics
Benjamin Tseng's personal blog at benjamintseng.com covers startups and economics. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its 2019 analysis of Uber and Lyft economics, including the claim that rides can be profitable before company-wide operating costs. Other comments touch on Python and PyPy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Benjamin Tseng — Product Leader & AI Technologist with over 8 years in deeptech venture capital. Writings on deeptech + AI, systems, and operational strategy.
Most-linked posts?
- Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-14
- A VC's Take on Difference Between Tech vs. Hardtech2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-28
What Hacker News says?
This is older analysis [1] but Uber is profitable on each ride in their biggest markets until you deduct the OPEX of the main co. The burn of sales, marketing, engineering, support, their rider safety team, the driver inspection and on boarding centers, leases, etc all continue on with or without riders. [1] https://benjamintseng.com/2019/04/lyft-vs-uber-a-tale-of-two...
Comment linking /2019/04/lyft-vs-uber-a-tale-of-two-s-1s/
on “Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19”Submitted Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s as a story · 187 points
HN discussionI'd genuinely be curious what fraction of those changes actually requires porting to other Python implementations. The free-threading changes are inherently interpreter specific, so we can ignore those. A significant change in Python 3.12 is dropping "dead batteries", so that can be ignored as well. From what I can see, the main language changes are typing-based (so could have parser implications), and the subinterp…
Comment linking /2024/02/the-ie6-youtube-conspiracy/
on “"Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"”Submitted Using TensorFlow 2 and Keras to Predict If a Paper Will Make It into Top Journal as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating the Financial Returns to College as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Tesla Is Like a Startup in a Bad Way as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Regulate Big Tech (Without Destroying Tech) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A VC's Take on Difference Between Tech vs. Hardtech as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Gamestop a Win for the Little Guy? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I've Changed My Mind on over the 2010s as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is it so Hard to Build a Diagnostic Business? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is most YC advice completely wrong for hard tech? Market vs. technical risk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing How Market Volatility Impacts Risk and Returns as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Reader Blues as a story · 1 points
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