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MindGeek (owner of Pornhub, Brazzers et al)
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I remember the Basecamp guys shouting themselves hoarse about these very same values back when "Social, Local & Mobile" were the new hotness. Seems like they were prophets now
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Interesting trends that pop out at first glance: 1. Seems like YC is all aboard the B2B SaaS train. This is funny because early last decade B2B SaaS was known as mostly a lifestyle business category, while investors focused on consumer faci
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It's trivial for a big corporation to kick off a trivial lawsuit to bury you in legal fees
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Doesn't matter. Even for kids' ads, the parents are the target
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What he didn't add is that YouTube will typically seed your content in the country you upload in. The privilege of birthplace continues to be a huge influence in our lives, even with algorithms on the internet running the show
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I've taken a look at the videos. The editing, angles and camera quality tell me that this guy has done quite a bit of research on making good videos and fully intended to make money from them. If you were on YouTube pre-monetization, t
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For example outright confiscation of wealth above $100m is quite a popular sentiment amongst liberals right now
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Liberal = social freedoms + economic restrictions Republican = social restrictions + economic freedoms
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They've been playing with house money since they got into insurance in the 70s. They can't be THAT stressed
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The Ivies only recently became places for the smartest students to go. In the beginning they were openly just rich kid schools, like Le Rosey and Eton today.
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Unfortunately investors are now all over B2B startups because they're now keenly aware of just how stacked the odds are against you in consumer products. Even YC nowadays calls consumer facing ideas "tar pits". It's also
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While it is true that entrepreneurship is indeed an upper middle class game, you tell only half the story. I've met guys who went from poor to cushy big tech jobs and even then they are deathly afraid of risk. Probably some form of PTS
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You say this but but VCs are still quite limited in their control until about series C. Literally all the founders I know who have raised over $1m have pretty good lifestyles (house, car, frequent travel). It's worlds apart from the bo
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What's funny is your solution would end up in something approximating the original version of Facebook
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Or maybe your father had an addictive personality that he had dealt with in the past before having you, and he wanted to nip it in the bud in case he had passed it down to you (yes, addictive personality is heritable)
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It's quite typical of devs in my experience. I remember during the MegaUpload/Pirate Bay arrests, devs were quite up in arms about big media going after pirates, but when it came to devs going after app pirates with everything the
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Guess governments aren't as cynical as some think
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Strong moat or an original IP like Minecraft
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It actually might be regulation that kills crypto because once you take out the high risk, you take out the high reward as well, and people are only in crypto for the high rewards
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That's the $100 working as intended
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Exactly. I use mine to alert users of my poker site about tournaments. Many would lose money without these timely alerts
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I used to think this way, but I tempered my belief to say that all poor countries need a brief period of extreme free markets. 50 to 100 years. After that, some regulation will be needed to manage the undesirable tradeoffs of that period
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I think he meant to say "poverty is the default state." After all, you are born with nothing, and if you do nothing, you will get nothing.
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What would it take for the pareto principle to be considered a scientific law? Surely it can be seen everywhere you look
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There is nowhere to take Twitter, it is on the tail end of its business cycle. The only move to play here is to go into damage control mode and relist ASAP. That way Elon can minimize his loss to 'only' $10 billion or less
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WeChat solved a problem specific to the Chinese market, given how it's internet market is structured. In the rest of the world, that problem is solved at an OS or browser level. And buying either of those would have been way cheaper th
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Dominoes indeed are falling, but the coin prices are staying largely the same. Perhaps we're at a point where most people are already down so much from last year that it makes no sense to sell, no matter what the news says
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I'm convinced that they just flag transactions from richer countries to poorer countries as fraud. But sending money from the poorer country to the richer country is completely fine.
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pg's absolute faves don't seem to be the best. It's the tier below that where the good leads are

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