Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions: matt at goodrx dot com
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GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. More than 7 million people use GoodRx’s website and popular mobile apps each month. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. More than a hundred thousand physicians use GoodRx, and its services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, the American Heart Association, The New York Times, ABC News, AARP, Forbes and many others.
I agree! The Atlantic ran a story late last year on the changes there.
"In May, 29-year-old Elaine Welteroth took over as editor from Amy Astley, who helped found the magazine in 2003. Welteroth, the digital editorial director Phillip Picardi, and the creative director Marie Suter have moved the magazine more aggressively into covering politics, feminism, identity, and activism."
What isn't explicitly mentioned in the article but worth calling out here is AWS and other cloud computing environments. That is a major part of what enabled:
"Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired for $1 billion by Facebook in 2012"
and
"WhatsApp had more than 450 million users world-wide when Facebook bought the messaging service for $19 billion in 2014, turning founder Jan Koum into a billionaire several times over. At the time of the acquisition, WhatsApp had 55 employees."
With prior tech booms, even if the computers that powered them were manufactured outside the US, they had to be installed and maintained in the US by employees of the company. Now all of that outsourced to Amazon and Google, who in turn have datacenters that employ few people.
Don't get me wrong- I love these services but a massive question still remains: Who is now responsible for job creation in the United States? It previously came naturally as a result of economic growth but that no longer holds.
Yes- nice to see I'm not the only one who felt this way! It's an amazing experience but some of the cultish aspects bothered me as well. I understand that they want you to focus on the Vipassana way of meditating during the retreat but pushing it as the "one true way" felt contradictory.
You should take a look at lobsters. They solve a lot of the transparency issues that some have with HN and ProductHunt.
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Granted, the "sign up by invitation" policy also is the primary reason why Product Hunt has become such an elitist club. Using an invite-system to counteract that would be self-defeating.
That's due to a combination of crime, local businesses (e.g. fancy coffee shops and bars), and access to commuter shuttles. You can see some of these in heat map form here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/goodrx
Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions: matt at goodrx dot com
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GoodRx is America’s leading prescription price transparency platform. More than 7 million people use GoodRx’s website and popular mobile apps each month. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. More than a hundred thousand physicians use GoodRx, and its services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, the American Heart Association, The New York Times, ABC News, AARP, Forbes and many others.