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Steve Jobs Memo to Startups
instagr.am
Relevant bit: "I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on..." - Steve Jobs
#truth #bullshit #disingenuous #steve #jobs #entrepreneur #society #success #quote #hard #work #pub
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I honestly wish it were that simple (coming from a person who abandoned twitter ... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
#truth #free #Software #real #world #capitalism #corporations #money #incentives #research #pub
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TIL Reddit is owned by Advance Publications, which was ranked among the 50 largest private US corporations. : todayilearned
www.reddit.com
reddit admins/staff acting like they aren't essentially owned and controlled by Advance Publications (billions and billions in revenue)
#truth #status_quo #BS #pub
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*These links and posts could just as easily be traffic generation strategies, no... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
#Google #SEO #butthurt #truth #pub
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I hate Buzzfeed.
www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net
Why Buzzfeed sucks.
#arguments #clickbait #clickhole_sites #funny #let_people_do_what_they_want_is_the_nice_and_proper_thing_pattern #pandering #pandering_2.0 #pandering_being_fine_pattern #truth #pub
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Why did Jan Koum and Brian Acton sell Whatsapp? They should have tried to moneti... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
“Why did Jan Koum and Brian Acton sell Whatsapp? They should have tried to monetize it with their $1 a year (or whatever) fee and see how many paid.
The truth is that they became big in geographies like India (population 1.3 billion) because they didn't actually enforce the fee for most users, and because Whatsapp worked very well with low data usage across all platforms including Symbian and offered free messaging at a time when Indians were used to having to pay per SMS.
It's convenient for the founders to grandstand now that Whatsapp is someone else's responsibility, but it was their responsibility once, and they never converted it into a profitable company, and when they got a offer too big to refuse, sold.”
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GOAT. Especially the last paragraph. Though it may have been profitable for a bit before it really exploded
#truth #facts #retorts #toread #pub
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