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Is Rap Genius's pitch deck available publicly? I've always considered their annotations to be a cute little novelty that's otherwise pointless, and Rap Genius

Is Rap Genius's pitch deck available publicly? I've always considered their annotations to be a cute little novelty that's otherwise pointless, and Rap Genius itself a case study in a startup for no reason, so to get all the money they've gotten from investors, I imagine their presentation must be pretty damn impressive. It just feels like the media and investors want them to succeed (hence the paid-for fluff pieces such as the posted one), but no one else gives a shit. How many of your friends are actually using Rap Genius?

nahiluhmot 12y ago
I prefer it over other lyrics sites just because it's the nicest one that I know of. That being said, I'm don't have an account and never go to the site directly. Just more likely to click on the link from a search.
- ep103 12y ago
  I like to listen to music that was clearly personal when it was originally written. I use genius a bit, because the only alternative is songmeanings.com, and genius is clearly better, when it has the content I'm looking for.
acjohnson55 12y ago
From hearing Ilan Zechory speak, it sounded like they landed their breakthrough investment with A16z after a whole lot of relationship cultivation, not so much an individual pitch. I don't know much about Ben Horowitz as a person, but to hear Zechory say it, he basically was a massive fan of their product itself and a kindred spirit with the founders. I don't see them changing the world, but I do believe they're worth something as a company. They've built the world's best lyrics site, after all, and they've got Disqus-like potential as a pluggable annotation platform. Lastly, in their community, they have a constituency that's probably fairly unique, and I think that's a significant value too.
- sukilot 12y ago
  The company exists because BH loves hip hop and invested in the first hip hop startup founded by Silicon Valley kids.

nahiluhmot 12y ago

I prefer it over other lyrics sites just because it's the nicest one that I know of. That being said, I'm don't have an account and never go to the site directly. Just more likely to click on the link from a search.

ep103 12y ago
I like to listen to music that was clearly personal when it was originally written. I use genius a bit, because the only alternative is songmeanings.com, and genius is clearly better, when it has the content I'm looking for.

acjohnson55 12y ago

From hearing Ilan Zechory speak, it sounded like they landed their breakthrough investment with A16z after a whole lot of relationship cultivation, not so much an individual pitch. I don't know much about Ben Horowitz as a person, but to hear Zechory say it, he basically was a massive fan of their product itself and a kindred spirit with the founders. I don't see them changing the world, but I do believe they're worth something as a company. They've built the world's best lyrics site, after all, and they've got Disqus-like potential as a pluggable annotation platform. Lastly, in their community, they have a constituency that's probably fairly unique, and I think that's a significant value too.

sukilot 12y ago
The company exists because BH loves hip hop and invested in the first hip hop startup founded by Silicon Valley kids.