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The recurring excuse for the investment is "look at the engagement". Toilets have incredible engagement as well - billions of people use them multiple times pe
by downandout 12y ago
The recurring excuse for the investment is "look at the engagement". Toilets have incredible engagement as well - billions of people use them multiple times per day - but we don't put millions of investment dollars into them. Well, maybe the people investing in Yo do, but most people don't.
- chasing 12y agoThe toilet is probably a bad comparison. Smart people are putting millions of dollars into improving them. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/media-center/press-releases/2012/08/bill-gates-names-winners-of-the-reinvent-the-toilet-challenge http://www.gatesfoundation.org/media-center/press-releases/2...
- argonaut 12y agoYes, and if you showed me impressive engagement and virality metrics for a toilet that had network effects and a plausible recurring revenue stream (ads), then I would definitely invest (of course no such toilet product exists - toilets don't have strong network effects and don't have a plausible recurring revenue stream in the form of ads).
- btown 12y ago> virality metrics for a toilet Toilets: the only technology sector where there's a direct correlation between "input sanitization" and "virality metrics..."