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Ignorance is bliss in a world where half the people at YC could develop the core snap chat app in a week.
by Kazamai 10y ago
Ignorance is bliss in a world where half the people at YC could develop the core snap chat app in a week.
- nemothekid 10y agoYou should have done it, and sold it for at least 100M then.
- omarchowdhury 10y agoYeah, well, we still haven't figured out time machines.
- InternetUser 10y agoThis point was addressed on HN by user ChuckMcM in November 2013, right after Spiegel rejected Zuckerberg's buyout attempt: > The focus here is on the tech and not the market. A pet rock was 'worthless' (the rock was just a rock) but the connection with a generation was valuable. So often in our business we look at something that we feel like we could build (or could be easily built) and a valuation, and focus on those two things. The parts we don't see we give little value to (350M snaps? Seriously? That is a boat load of engagement). Making anything that get 350M 13-23 yr olds engaged is a pretty huge deal. That is what is valuable with Snapchat, not the tech. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671371
- moolcool 10y agoThe pet rock was also only on sale for about a year before being discontinued due to poor sales.