>That mental model of "get traffic and somehow magically make money from it without charging anything" is rooted in using ads to monetize it. These days it see

>That mental model of "get traffic and somehow magically make money from it without charging anything" is rooted in using ads to monetize it. These days it seems more like "burn VC money like there's no tomorrow, try all sorts of shady shit when you feel the investors' breath on your neck".