> For years, Gerold has been a regular at some of the city’s most high-profile members-only clubs, including the Battery, the Modernist, and the Amador. The clubs market themselves as places for the influential and the elite — social playgrounds for brushing shoulders with investors, CEOs, and politicians, all behind closed doors.
> Gerold appeared to belong in these spaces. He said he brokers real estate transactions. He name-dropped a group of friends he called “the Warrior Kings,” which includes prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists, investors, CEOs, and surgeons.
> Gerold has been connected to at least six instances in which police were called or reports were filed with law enforcement over the last three years. He has reportedly been banned, suspended, or had his membership ended by at least three public and private venues in San Francisco in the last year.
I'm routinely shocked how biased people I work with are against individuals without a linkedin page. So many hiring managers across 15 years in my industry won't consider people without pages. One guy goes on rants how people are "sketchy" if they don't have a verified page and a lot of skill endorsements and testimonials! He'll pull up our vendors pages and check them out during meetings, complain if it isn't available or complete. I used to keep mine very minimal and locked down but I felt pressure from peers to flesh is out and keep it public which I hate.
For remote jobs with remote interviews, not having a LinkedIn page or having a LinkedIn page full of generic information that can be disproven by a quick background check are common traits of scam applicants.
A friend’s employer started requiring more verification after they hired a group of remote workers who would some times connect from North Korean IPs when they made a mistake with their VPN.
What class of device are you talking about? Even if you clear FDA, commercialization is incredibly difficult. I think you're pish-poshing how hard it is to get regulatory clearance, btw. The regulatory approvals in US and ROW are incredibly difficult, costly, and time consuming to meet all the requirements imposed by the various regional authorities. Sounds like you are severely underestimating the costs, work and length of time to generate data and create an approval submission. You won't obtain labeling without funding and running clinical trials. It can take 5-10 years of development and clinical studies and $50-$100 million for PMA approval.
Then if you hit the market you are going up against the most connected, cutthrough, organized and entrenched sales forces from the large device companies who make tech b2b sales look like kindergarteners on the playground. The medical offices, site staff and hospitals all try to block access to your sales force so you are probably going to need to fund and deploy an MSL and RSL force as well and present at all the industry conferences to get any leads and traction.
Then even if you have customers who want your device it won't matter unless you develop a patient access team, lobby to secure reimbursement from insurers otherwise all your previous efforts are wasted. So now you need a market access team and you're probably $200 million in the hole, and you're dead in the water if CMS won't get onboard for reimbursement because all the private insurers generally wait and see what CMS does. Meanwhile any time any of your suppliers change you'll need to run more trials to show validation for safety and efficacy.
With average time to market is 12 years, 75% of new device companies fail for a reason.
This one is really sad. The gentleman who was scammed was actually a volunteer at a call center helping the elderly prevent scams and he still fell for this, despite his son and other family members cautioning him that it was a scam.
That makes it fairly clear there is no practical defense against such scams once you become a target, so the only option is to stop the scammers along the chain somehow.
> I’m standing outside an Oakland apartment I’m trying to tour, punching the same code into the keypad over and over again. The door won’t budge. My fiancé and I repeatedly call the number provided for “immediate help,” but for 10 minutes, we get nothing but the flat, looping responses of an automated voice.
> Despite the fact that this Jack London Square complex has over 280 units, there is no on-site leasing office and no human agent to answer our questions — or, more importantly, to actually let us in. Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to artificial intelligence. We were trapped in a digital loop until, finally, a human had to intervene and remotely unlock the door for us.
> In my recent East Bay apartment hunt, I encountered AI everywhere I looked, from chipper leasing agents who turned out to be bots to Craigslist scams. While I was surprised to find the landscape so changed from the last time I moved, I quickly learned my experience was not unique.
Having managed 32 units I see why apartment managers want to outsource showings to AI agents if they can. It was easily the biggest time-sink.
If you've hung out at the Battery, the Modernist, or the Amador you may have crossed paths with this guy.
> He would allegedly schedule “personal training” sessions for her lasting 60 to 90 minutes, during which she would sleep with bankers, venture capitalists and a tech CEO. London estimated she had sex for money about 60 times over a year and a half — with Gerold raking in more than $100,000.
> London has given a detailed account of her experience in family court while pursuing of a domestic violence restraining order against Gerold, according to the Standard.
Moderna already canceled their manufacturing plant in US because of the current political climate. Even though they're now reviewing it, other vaccine researchers will be less likely to pursue and submit applications. Overall vaccine research is in a downturn due to this administration.
Vinay Prasad is way over his skis. One of the FDA statements to Moderna from the initial rejection as "they need to come back with some humility" which was reminscent of JD Vance previous whining when Zelensky didn't say please. These are supposed to be professionals and representatives, instead they are egomaniacs who just want their ring kissed!
Countless damage has already been done much damage to investment in US science and innovation, we are losing ground to China despite it being a hotbed of research fraud.
I would think this is silly but there was a section in Silksong where you could decorate your own bell-house in Bellhart and I loved it so much that now I understand why people would want to do this and enjoy it!
Walking around the Hermitcraft world download is a pretty cool experience. Desire to hang out where your favorite creators did is not surprising. I wonder if there will be a catchall site (like zillow here) or if it will be more game specific (because integration complexity)
And will tools like Genie 3 be good enough that direct integration is no longer necessary?
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