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I think pg recognizes the post for it's marketing brilliance, which is why he is calling bs. It was interesting that aside from having the scrappy image, many

by tstyle 14y ago

I think pg recognizes the post for it's marketing brilliance, which is why he is calling bs. It was interesting that aside from having the scrappy image, many of the athletes used in the analogy(Ichiro, Nash, and Dirk) happens to be foreign. The post is an attempt to differentiate from a leading competitor for talent on multiple fronts(Home Run vs Singles/Globalization vs Valley/Hackers vs Marketers).

GBond 14y ago
"Law of the Ladder" strategy of the post is a good play. Another point about the scrappy image: one of the points of PGs essay was to state that sometime the non-obvious guy/gal wins the biggest the end. 500 is saying they are that non-obvious accelerator.