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Having met several people who work at Cheezburger, I can verify that they are indeed very smart people doing what they love. The Cheezburger team works tireless

Having met several people who work at Cheezburger, I can verify that they are indeed very smart people doing what they love. The Cheezburger team works tirelessly to make sure that their users laugh, every day. That's their mission and they seem to be achieving it...

mahmud 16y ago
Smart people, maybe, but they sure as hell don't need to be working hard to keep ICHCB running. As far as technologies that inspire go, there are very, VERY few around.
- ryanwaggoner 16y ago
  Just think, if it's so easy, there's a HUGE opportunity for you to swoop in, solo of course, and build a profitable (from inception) company with 375 million monthly pageviews and 100 million monthly video views. And since you can run it all by yourself, think of the money you'll save! Ah, but you're not "inspired" by that kind of thing. Too bad, you could be rolling in cash. EDIT: Yes, I'm being snarky. It pisses me off to see some random person on the Internet tear down the accomplishments of a team that has built something huge and profitable that their users love. From scratch. In three years. What experience do you have running a network of the size and scope of theirs that leads you to denigrate their work?
  - mahmud 16y ago
    I would rather take the Stephen Wolfram path to "rolling in cash", thank you very much.
    - hugh3 16y ago
      This dude has been marked down to hell, but I think he has a point. With the self-congratulation going on in a few other threads about how entrepreneurs are better than everyone else because they create (oh I'm sorry, "hack") amazing things which make the world a better place, it's worth noting that 90% of internet traffic is complete garbage.
      - henrikschroder 16y ago
        Why is stuff that makes people laugh garbage?
        mahmud 16y ago
        Kongregate was acquired for this amount (~$30MM); it's also built around leisure and time wasting, but compare their content offerings. One has games developed by over 10k developers, indy and professionals, while the other offers jpegs, crowd-sourced from 4chan and reddit. Neither is garbage, but $30 mil for an image-board? and that's not even an acquisition but investment. meh.
      - dualogy 16y ago
        Same with TV and other media. The point is that 90% is garbage for everyone -- but it's also a different 90% for everyone. So I don't think this argument matters. Witness that companies building something loved by more than 10% of people (Facebook, Apple, Google) also yield way higher valuations and returns.

mahmud 16y ago

Smart people, maybe, but they sure as hell don't need to be working hard to keep ICHCB running. As far as technologies that inspire go, there are very, VERY few around.

ryanwaggoner 16y ago
Just think, if it's so easy, there's a HUGE opportunity for you to swoop in, solo of course, and build a profitable (from inception) company with 375 million monthly pageviews and 100 million monthly video views. And since you can run it all by yourself, think of the money you'll save! Ah, but you're not "inspired" by that kind of thing. Too bad, you could be rolling in cash. EDIT: Yes, I'm being snarky. It pisses me off to see some random person on the Internet tear down the accomplishments of a team that has built something huge and profitable that their users love. From scratch. In three years. What experience do you have running a network of the size and scope of theirs that leads you to denigrate their work?
- mahmud 16y ago
  I would rather take the Stephen Wolfram path to "rolling in cash", thank you very much.
  - hugh3 16y ago
    This dude has been marked down to hell, but I think he has a point. With the self-congratulation going on in a few other threads about how entrepreneurs are better than everyone else because they create (oh I'm sorry, "hack") amazing things which make the world a better place, it's worth noting that 90% of internet traffic is complete garbage.
    - henrikschroder 16y ago
      Why is stuff that makes people laugh garbage?
      - mahmud 16y ago
        Kongregate was acquired for this amount (~$30MM); it's also built around leisure and time wasting, but compare their content offerings. One has games developed by over 10k developers, indy and professionals, while the other offers jpegs, crowd-sourced from 4chan and reddit. Neither is garbage, but $30 mil for an image-board? and that's not even an acquisition but investment. meh.
    - dualogy 16y ago
      Same with TV and other media. The point is that 90% is garbage for everyone -- but it's also a different 90% for everyone. So I don't think this argument matters. Witness that companies building something loved by more than 10% of people (Facebook, Apple, Google) also yield way higher valuations and returns.