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Is it just me, or do the Thiel Fellow projects seem to suffer from hubris? I understand that the founders are young and a little naive, but instead of lofty cla
by yid 15y ago
Is it just me, or do the Thiel Fellow projects seem to suffer from hubris? I understand that the founders are young and a little naive, but instead of lofty claims like:
"No longer will we navigate endlessly in search of reliable content"
"Ingenic is the next iteration in the expansion of connections online, enabling the connection of content into a singular consumption source. "
... some substance would be more useful. In particular (and this is something that first year PhD students learn painfully), a survey of what's out there will show that obvious solutions have been tried and re-tried and failed, and (to quote xkcd), "I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that..."
Makes me think about the guidance they're receiving...
- cj 15y agoIngenic co-founder here. I agree, the claims you quoted come off as sensational. We'll definitely be writing more substantial pieces soon. Our apologies -- email me at brandon@ingenic.com i'm willing to share specifics.
- yid 15y agoHi Brandon, I appreciate the quick response. I would, at the very least, work with a copywriter rather than formulating your own copy (there are plenty that will work for free, to build their portfolio). In the meantime, I look forward to the substance :)
- cj 15y agoThanks for the advice. I'll definitely look into it :)
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- jerf 15y agoI don't need special access to the specifics, but I would definitely reiterate that at least in terms of talking to us hacker types, you'll be sure to want to address why what you're doing is different than what has been tried before and why what you're doing may work. At least for your own internal analysis, I'd be focusing on the incentive structure for the curators. I'm sure there are answers; I actually think this space has been mostly unexplored due to the spectre of some spectacular failures like the Yahoo directory (even if the company lived on), but I also think that it's going to take more than vague gestures at "social summatorother" which seems to sum up what I've seen in this space so far.