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So we missed Dropbox, Airbnb and coinbase. What idea do we all think is bad? ISAs?

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• seriousquestion 6y ago
  Bitcoin, Palantir. Between your examples and Bitcoin, would betting against the HN hivemind a winning strategy?
  • sillysaurusx 6y ago
    Well, yeah. Did you see the comments on pg's recent essay? It was the first time I was like, I don't identify with any of these people. But that's okay. The world is large, and we're free to all feel however we feel. There also isn't a "hive mind," just a lot of people with surprisingly similar viewpoints and feelings that don't necessarily match the reality of how to build businesses over long periods of time. At one point, I was an ardent opponent of Coinbase, having lost most of my money in the (at the time) recent implosion of Mt Gox. But time has proven me wrong. So, it's also not so easy to distance yourself from "the hivemind," you see – it's surprisingly easy to fall into the same patterns.
  • sjg007 6y ago
    Maybe? I discounted Roblox too.
• ryanmercer 6y ago
  I mean, I have an NFT of the only known recording of my father's voice. He passed in 1998 when I was a kid. Rumor on the street is that NFT is going to be worth eleventy trillion galactic credits some day ;P