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‘The Internet Is Broken’: Ev Is Trying to Salvage It
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y agoSometimes I think Ev Williams stumbled from success to success without hard work. Maybe I'm just bitter that he is doing the same thing (publishing text on the Internet) over and over again and gets hundreds of millions in funding. Maybe I just don't understand Silicon Valley. If Ev wants to solve the problem of high quality content being drowned by low quality content, why does he work on a text publishing website? Why not work on the next Patreon? It is absolutely clear that people want to support their Internet darlings but simply cannot most of the time because there is no infrastructure for direct payments / subscriptions. Patreon is the only big general purpose subscription service where it is easy for content creators to get started.
- smt88 9y agoIf you suspect that Silicon Valley isn't a meritocracy, you're right. If you suspect that Silicon Valley rewards founders and companies who aren't profitable, you're also right.