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>They were also well connected enough to get an early version in front of Jack Dorsey I wrote a post about this phenomenon here: http://news.ycombinator.com/it
by will_brown 14y ago
>They were also well connected enough to get an early version in front of Jack Dorsey
I wrote a post about this phenomenon here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049409 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049409. I call it the "magical introduction" in my post, I quote:
"....all the media exposure and growth opportunities that naturally follow all as a result of a magical 'introduction.'"
Sadly, "magical introductions" often get in the way of the best products rising to the top, or even having a fair shot to begin in a lot of cases. Vine is a perfect example where a product was acquired by Twitter before even launching, but as a result when Vine launches it is instantly dubbed the "Instagram of Video" in every news outlet. See the Google News search result for Instagram of Video.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=instagram+of+video&oq=instagram+of+video&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j43i400.1854.5523.0.5750.18.7.0.11.11.0.142.752.2j5.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.sBGgFOHeo8o https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...