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That's why I highlighted that quote. I see it as a suggestion that he can take someone with negative presence currently and with no drive for it into social me
by akira2501 3y ago
That's why I highlighted that quote. I see it as a suggestion that he can take someone with negative presence currently and with no drive for it into social media fame by merely applying this formula, and that part of this formula would be repeating the same step for new recruits.
Perhaps it's just the way his marketing bluster read into the article, but it suggests he's not concerned with the market forces you're invoking, and so I immediately saw a large pyramidal structure when I read that particular line.
- gtvwill 3y agoBy formula you mean bot farm...
- simonw 3y agoThat feels to me more like a network effect than a pyramid scheme: help your talent out by having them collaborate with each other.
- escapedmoose 3y agoThat seemed resolved by the end of the article, by the admission that this guy sometimes has 9 bad ideas in a row and the 10th is a winner. The highlighted example was one of the bad ideas, but it illustrates generally how the promotion process works
- kbenson 3y agoUsing a network or community of people to promote each other is not a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme would be if he took profits from those new people to somehow pay the old people. This is actually the opposite of that, where he's getting time and effort from established people to boost new people. It's functionally no different than having a friend in an industry that gives you a shout out when you start a new venture, except you're opting into a group of people all doing this to help each other. It's nothing new, and nothing problematic IMO, and it's been going on for hundreds of years at least, and possibly thousands.