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Sometimes I'm more interested in knowing the thought process of PG and YC about why they decided to invest in such idea. What they see this as a business opport

Sometimes I'm more interested in knowing the thought process of PG and YC about why they decided to invest in such idea. What they see this as a business opportunity? Or technology opportunity? Or just big market opportunity? What is it that made PG and YC to invest in this? And this is just out of curiosity - to learn what they have seen that I'm missing and cannot see.

jon_dahl 16y ago
Keep a few things in mind. First, a lot of companies release their long-term vision in stages. Think of Bump: their first release was a way to share contacts on mobile devices. Which is kind of cool, but maybe not IPO-worthy. Now they're doing mobile payments with PayPal, and I can only imagine they have bigger things coming. Second, YC invests in founders, and the Nowmov founders are amazing.
pg 16y ago
It seemed to me a pretty good hypothesis about what the future of TV would look like. Roughly Nowmov has the same relation to watching TV that Reddit does to a newspaper or magazine. The format's similar, but instead of getting what one media co chooses to pipe down the channel at you, you see a collection of smaller things from all sorts of different sources (both big media cos and individual people), and the best stuff floats to the top. Nowmov is not very good yet at finding the best stuff, obviously, but they only just launched. You have to imagine what it looks like when it can customize per user.
- adityakothadiya 16y ago
  Fair enough. I totally believe that don't judge startups from where they are now, but judge them based on where they will be after few years. I just had a different experience when I met you the other day at Chirp and demoed our app. It was a 4 month app developed in the part-time, has a decent traction, and growing at decent rate, but with great potential in future. I was more interested in explaining you my vision and getting your feedback on it, but it seemed like you gave lot of emphasis on its current usefulness and didn't seem to imagine how great and useful the app would be in few months. So I was just curious, how your thought process works. But I'm glad that you seem to believe in the approach of what we potentially can achieve based on what we have achieved so far. Thanks for your reply!
- ErrantX 16y ago
  Here in the uk there is a semi popular tv show called rudetube; which shows Internet video clips based on a rough user ranking metric (YouTube views). So the idea could have legs.

jon_dahl 16y ago

Keep a few things in mind. First, a lot of companies release their long-term vision in stages. Think of Bump: their first release was a way to share contacts on mobile devices. Which is kind of cool, but maybe not IPO-worthy. Now they're doing mobile payments with PayPal, and I can only imagine they have bigger things coming. Second, YC invests in founders, and the Nowmov founders are amazing.

pg 16y ago

It seemed to me a pretty good hypothesis about what the future of TV would look like. Roughly Nowmov has the same relation to watching TV that Reddit does to a newspaper or magazine. The format's similar, but instead of getting what one media co chooses to pipe down the channel at you, you see a collection of smaller things from all sorts of different sources (both big media cos and individual people), and the best stuff floats to the top. Nowmov is not very good yet at finding the best stuff, obviously, but they only just launched. You have to imagine what it looks like when it can customize per user.

adityakothadiya 16y ago
Fair enough. I totally believe that don't judge startups from where they are now, but judge them based on where they will be after few years. I just had a different experience when I met you the other day at Chirp and demoed our app. It was a 4 month app developed in the part-time, has a decent traction, and growing at decent rate, but with great potential in future. I was more interested in explaining you my vision and getting your feedback on it, but it seemed like you gave lot of emphasis on its current usefulness and didn't seem to imagine how great and useful the app would be in few months. So I was just curious, how your thought process works. But I'm glad that you seem to believe in the approach of what we potentially can achieve based on what we have achieved so far. Thanks for your reply!
ErrantX 16y ago
Here in the uk there is a semi popular tv show called rudetube; which shows Internet video clips based on a rough user ranking metric (YouTube views). So the idea could have legs.