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It coincides significantly with YC, Zuckerberg, and Amazon. Internet is becoming soulles by the day.
by muge 5mo ago
It coincides significantly with YC, Zuckerberg, and Amazon. Internet is becoming soulles by the day.
- stripefan 5mo agoIn my view, this period surprisingly correlates with the first leg of the Fed's balance-sheet expansion [1], from ~$800B to ~$2.2T in 2008. As a reminder, this was the era of the early iPhones and the first MacBook Air [2] — tech was mature enough, but not yet overcrowded with VCs. [1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080223071127/http://www.apple.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080223071127/http://www.apple....
- nathan_compton 5mo agoThe best time to be anywhere is when the value of something is obvious but rich people don't yet understand it so they can't micromanage it towards pure productivity and ROI. Money flows in with very little oversight.