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This looks like a particularly egregious case of the toxic influence of VC money. Whey build a sustainable platform from day one when you can use the free money

by xmodem 5y ago

This looks like a particularly egregious case of the toxic influence of VC money. Whey build a sustainable platform from day one when you can use the free money tap to attempt hypergrowth. Unfortunately, eventually it runs dry, and you have to justify your valuation based on whatever you did manage to build.

mschuster91 5y ago
> Whey build a sustainable platform from day one when you can use the free money tap to attempt hypergrowth. When the competition (mainly YouTube) has billions of dollars worth of R&D and deficit-coverage budget, you don't stand a chance building a "sustainable" platform because all potential customers of yours will rather go for the free option. The fact that egress data is ridiculously expensive, especially at the quantity you need to build a global high-performance network, only reduces the options you have.
- RubberbandSoul 5y ago
  Billions of dollars worth of R&D and I still can't organize my subscriptions. Sorry, I had to.
  - Nextgrid 5y ago
    Those billions of dollars of R&D explicitly went into preventing you from organizing your subscription - since at scale that probably leads to more "engagement".
aserdf 5y ago
vimeo had their IPO last year (VMEO)
- sct202 5y ago
  -81% in about a year ($55->$10.4). Big yikes there.
  - naoqj 5y ago
    Predictable. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=vimeo https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=v...
- fullshark 5y ago
  81% off its initial day of trading price. Are there ANY tech IPOS in the last 2 years that are currently trading above their IPO price? I get we are approaching a bear market today but some day the public will wise up to the fact that they get no chance at genuine growth opportunities for these niche tech companies and are being sold on illusory global market dominance narratives.
  - mardifoufs 5y ago
    Cloudflare? Though that would be 2 years and a half IIRC.

by xmodem 5y ago

mschuster91 5y ago

> Whey build a sustainable platform from day one when you can use the free money tap to attempt hypergrowth. When the competition (mainly YouTube) has billions of dollars worth of R&D and deficit-coverage budget, you don't stand a chance building a "sustainable" platform because all potential customers of yours will rather go for the free option. The fact that egress data is ridiculously expensive, especially at the quantity you need to build a global high-performance network, only reduces the options you have.

RubberbandSoul 5y ago
Billions of dollars worth of R&D and I still can't organize my subscriptions. Sorry, I had to.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  Those billions of dollars of R&D explicitly went into preventing you from organizing your subscription - since at scale that probably leads to more "engagement".

aserdf 5y ago

vimeo had their IPO last year (VMEO)

sct202 5y ago
-81% in about a year ($55->$10.4). Big yikes there.
- naoqj 5y ago
  Predictable. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=vimeo https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=v...
fullshark 5y ago
81% off its initial day of trading price. Are there ANY tech IPOS in the last 2 years that are currently trading above their IPO price? I get we are approaching a bear market today but some day the public will wise up to the fact that they get no chance at genuine growth opportunities for these niche tech companies and are being sold on illusory global market dominance narratives.
- mardifoufs 5y ago
  Cloudflare? Though that would be 2 years and a half IIRC.