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Having worked in digital marketing for over a decade, I've been exposed to hundreds of business models. The percent of them making someone rich on the back of s
by krisroadruck 7y ago
Having worked in digital marketing for over a decade, I've been exposed to hundreds of business models. The percent of them making someone rich on the back of selling scammy bullshit to stupid/gullible people is disturbingly high. I've long privately lamented that apparently to have a good shot at being rich, you must be perfectly ok with being a shitty person. I feel like highly intelligent people probably have a harder time talking themselves into making unnecessary piles of money by screwing people over.
Note: This seems far more prevalent in the B2C non-software non-vc-backed space. But then I expect there are a lot more individual millionaires being minted from those types of businesses than from silicon valley SaaS startups.
- JohnFen 7y ago> I've long privately lamented that apparently to have a good shot at being rich, you must be perfectly ok with being a shitty person. It's broad-brushing, of course, but I think there's more than a little truth to this.