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Software has no moat: "The big wake-up call was when Facebook carbon copied Snapchat to make Poke. Mark Zuckerberg recorded him saying the word "Poke" as the notification sound. He was so excited about this. It ended up being super helpful to Snapchat. They literally put "Download Poke" at... the top of every single Facebook app. And it was just a clone of Snapchat. And then, on Christmas Day, to see Snapchat number one in the App Store in that context — it was huge for us. But that was the first time we realized we're going to have to be really smart about how we build this business and invest in the things that are hard to copy. To be living in my dad's house with three of my buddies from college — and this huge company set their sights on us. It was definitely a formative experience." - Evan Spiegelshow more

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Evan Spiegel on the lesson that killed his first startup and led to Snapchat: "We focused on building the perfect product for way too long before we got feedback. We worked for like eighteen months to build this perfect full-featured product, which was in direct contravention to how I was always taught to build things. Build a prototype, build an MVP, get it in front of people, learn as quickly as possible. But we had spent all this time building this perfect piece of software and we hadn't thought enough about distribution. While we built this great piece of software, our competitor at the time, Naviance, had secured distribution through all the different college counselors. What piece of software are you going to choose to help your kid get into college? The one recommended by the college counselors or the one from two kids at Stanford? I think it's a pretty easy choice. So we saw very early that we had no distribution advantage. Even if we loved our software, people weren't going to use it because we didn't have a scalable way to get it in people's hands. Around that time when we saw the emergence of the App Store on iPhone, it was very clear that was a distribution channel we could really use and benefit from. But we also needed to build things we could build quickly, things we really were going to use together with our friends so we could be the first early customers. Ultimately Peekaboo and Snapchat represented that." This is exactly the asymmetry Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One: superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. Thiel puts an even finer point on it: most businesses get zero distribution channels to work. Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. Estée Lauder said: it's not enough to have the most wonderful product in the world. You must be able to sell it. Many founders over-index on product perfection and under-invest in distribution. The world is full of great products nobody knows about, and mediocre products with massive distribution that dominate markets. Evan Spiegel lived it. He built the better product, watched it lose, and then built something he could actually distribute.

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.DHH credits Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with helping him the most during the darkest time of his professional life: "It was during that rough going where Andreessen came in. We were a small company of 60 people and 20 took the offer and left. That's almost a third of the company that decided to leave and we got to a point where we were thinking that not many more have to leave before we need to worry about whether we can keep the lights on. And it was actually Tobi who then put me in contact with Marc Andreessen because Marc had been exposed to this phenomenon at some of his portfolio companies. And Marc gave us reassurance and a bunch of contacts. Marc said, "Do you need someone to come in to help do programming or help with operations or whatever?" And I was floored by the generosity because Marc and I haven't always seen eye to eye on things. Especially in terms of venture capital. He's been one of the main faces of venture capital for decades and I've been kind of critical at times. And it was just a realization that all those grievances we might have thought to be so big once upon a time were actually minuscule. We were fighting the white walkers on the other side of the wall and all our internal squabbles were going to be for nothing if those fckers got inside the wall and destroyed everything. And that felt like a real threat at the time. That could've happened. They could very well have just ripped the whole thing apart. And Marc clearly saw that that this was a collective, almost existential threat to the entire industry. If these activists were able to take over these institutions in the same way that they have taken over academia we would be fcked and not just for a little while but potentially for decades. That couldn't stand. And Marc was incredibly helpful not just in terms of these contacts and introductions and so on but it was very powerful. When you have literally 40,000 people on Twitter calling you all the worst things in the world even the strongest individual might go for a second like "Holy sht. The mob is coming for me and there's no one else there." And there are other people there. Tobi was there. Marc was there. And it was incredibly helpful to give us the fortitude to go like "No do you know what? We're going to stick with it. We're not going to grovel. We're not going to apologize. We're not going to revert." And then what Marc also did was he gave me a syllabus for understanding the history of wokeness going all the way back to the '60s and beyond. That this didn't just come as lightning from a blue sky. This had an institutional grounding that was set in motion particularly in the '60s and the long march through the institutions, Herbert Marcuse and a lot of The Frankfurt School and all of these groups that had designs on how to reshape society and create the revolution they so dearly wanted, but with a timeline and a roadmap that was demarcated in decades. That it wasn't just like "Well we're going to put something together and then in two years something's going to happen." No they were sitting in the fucking '60s fantasizing about how to overthrow everything in the 2000s. It's actually incredible in a Dr. Evil sense of it but when you're on the receiving end of it it seemed a little less incredible and it was just difficult not knowing where's this coming from? Why is this happening all of a sudden? Well it wasn't happening all of a sudden. There was this long history of it and when you understood that history it made a lot more sense. We weren't just making a rejection for our little corner of the world. We were chipping in in the great civilizational battle of where this country was going to go, whether the white walkers beyond the wall were going to win. And we were like "No they're not going to fcking win. Get them out of that f*cking wall. Take your goddamn spear and fire it with maximum velocity."

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Anish Acharya: We're going to see a "YouTube moment for software": "If you think about YouTube 20 years ago—we had lots of video and lots of television, and it was high production quality, and it wasn't clear that we needed more and 20 years later, YouTube's a $550 billion enterprise that would be one of the biggest companies in the world if it was independent." "I think the same thing is going to happen for software. People want to make software, and for the first time they can—and they can distribute it and they can consume it." "Sometimes it's going to be important software. Sometimes it's going to be totally trivial. It's going to be software for a bachelor party weekend, software for a joke, software for a prompt. We have this sort of seriousness about software that we had about video and television 20 years ago." "Now it's like—I just took a video on my phone. It's going to be like—I just made an app on my phone. Same energy." Anish Acharya on BILLIONS with Guillaume Moubeche

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One of the most astonishing attempts at projecting grandiose delusions I’ve ever seen—“so [Obama] tried to bribe them to make a deal… 1.7 billion in cash was put on a Boeing…” Trump bribed Iran with $324 billion. And got nothing for it. “And the main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. They fully agreed to that with strong policing powers, and they won't have nuclear weapons, which is what I was all about, because they probably would have used it if they had it. So we had two big moments when they terminated the JCPOA, that was the Obama deal, the Barrack Hussein Obama deal, and when I terminated that, it was very important because it was a road to a nuclear weapon. It was a horrible deal for the United States. It was a deal where billions of dollars was given to Iran. It was a deal where 1.7 billion in cash was put on a Boeing 7, well, not a 7, 7, 57, I guess, right? But it was put on a big, beautiful Boeing 757. They needed a Boeing 747 to be honest with you, because it was a lot of cash. 1.7 billion was taken out of the banks and given to Iran, and on top of that, tens of billions of dollars was made. So they tried to bribe them to make a deal that didn't work. It never works. And that we lived on a great job, and hopefully it's going to be a good relationship, and we're going to get along. And if we don't, we go back to where we started, but I don't know if it's going to be necessary. The Iran deal that we made is going to bring a lot of success to the world, because the oil was really plugged up there for a while. They would call me on occasion, "See, come on, please. Let's go." The oil prices. But the oil is coming way down.”

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Jake Paul says his dad taught him what it takes to be a man, including 200 push-ups a day "My dad was really strict, really hard on us, always wanted us to pursue our dreams, to be working out, to be outside playing and doing things" "We worked on the weekends with him. Doing odd jobs, cleaning gutters, helping him build houses, roofing, landscaping, we were his employees" "He was in the Army. Very militant background, everything organized, OCD and keeping everything clean and all that" "He really taught me and my brother that the world isn't fair, it's going to be harsh and fucked up, and you have to be strong and prepared and ready for that" "Taught my brother and I what it takes to be a man. Instilled in us this desire to work hard and win. To push ourselves every single day" "He would make us do 200 push-ups a day, and we had to keep track of it and report to him at the end of the day that we did the 200 push-ups" "All crazy games and stuff like that he would do to keep us motivated"

Jake Paul says his dad taught him what it takes to be a man, including 200 push-ups a day "My dad was really strict, really hard on us, always wanted us to pursue our dreams, to be working out, to be outside playing and doing things" "We worked on the weekends with him. Doing odd jobs, cleaning gutters, helping him build houses, roofing, landscaping, we were his employees" "He was in the Army. Very militant background, everything organized, OCD and keeping everything clean and all that" "He really taught me and my brother that the world isn't fair, it's going to be harsh and fucked up, and you have to be strong and prepared and ready for that" "Taught my brother and I what it takes to be a man. Instilled in us this desire to work hard and win. To push ourselves every single day" "He would make us do 200 push-ups a day, and we had to keep track of it and report to him at the end of the day that we did the 200 push-ups" "All crazy games and stuff like that he would do to keep us motivated"

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This French creator was updating his audience about the top K-pop soloists on Spotify US, and it was so satisfying to see him realizing Jimin’s massive success! 🗣️: hello to all the K-pop fans! A little info for the day. Today, we have the ranking of K-pop artists with the highest number of streams on Spotify in the US. And to my great surprise, the winner is... Jimin! 🗣️: No, it's crazy. He has 634 million. People had already talked to me about this, they told me he was the one with the most streams. I had a hard time believing it, but the numbers speak for themselves. It’s reality—in truth, he’s the boss! 🗣️: It’s crazy, right? So as a solo artist, he’s the one getting the most streams in the world when it comes to K-pop... well, at least in the US. But when you put it all together, I saw the general ranking, and it was also him, to be honest. And I'll share that too, by the way. 🗣️: So yeah, after him, it's followed by Jennie as you can see, then Rosé, then Jungkook.

This French creator was updating his audience about the top K-pop soloists on Spotify US, and it was so satisfying to see him realizing Jimin’s massive success! 🗣️: hello to all the K-pop fans! A little info for the day. Today, we have the ranking of K-pop artists with the highest number of streams on Spotify in the US. And to my great surprise, the winner is... Jimin! 🗣️: No, it's crazy. He has 634 million. People had already talked to me about this, they told me he was the one with the most streams. I had a hard time believing it, but the numbers speak for themselves. It’s reality—in truth, he’s the boss! 🗣️: It’s crazy, right? So as a solo artist, he’s the one getting the most streams in the world when it comes to K-pop... well, at least in the US. But when you put it all together, I saw the general ranking, and it was also him, to be honest. And I'll share that too, by the way. 🗣️: So yeah, after him, it's followed by Jennie as you can see, then Rosé, then Jungkook.

cocojm⁷

46,202 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

ELON: LET’S DO THINGS THAT MOVE OUR HEARTS! “Life cannot just be about solving one problem after another. We need things that inspire us. We need things that move our hearts. That, when you wake up in the morning, you're excited to be alive. Being a space-faring civilization and making true the things that we see in the good science fiction movies, this is one of the things that I think can inspire all of humanity. Just like when the astronauts went to the moon in 1969, it was something. They said: 'For all mankind'. And it really was something... You say to any human on Earth, what's the most amazing thing that humanity has ever done? At least one of those things would be, we went to the moon. You want to have these inspiring things that make you excited to be alive, excited about the future.” Source: VivaTech Paris, June 2023

ELON: LET’S DO THINGS THAT MOVE OUR HEARTS! “Life cannot just be about solving one problem after another. We need things that inspire us. We need things that move our hearts. That, when you wake up in the morning, you're excited to be alive. Being a space-faring civilization and making true the things that we see in the good science fiction movies, this is one of the things that I think can inspire all of humanity. Just like when the astronauts went to the moon in 1969, it was something. They said: 'For all mankind'. And it really was something... You say to any human on Earth, what's the most amazing thing that humanity has ever done? At least one of those things would be, we went to the moon. You want to have these inspiring things that make you excited to be alive, excited about the future.” Source: VivaTech Paris, June 2023

Mario Nawfal

13,392,868 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

John Carpenter on how Howard Hawks's "Rio Bravo" (1959) inspired him to become a filmmaker: "As I got older I began to see that certain directors did certain things. One of the earliest examples of this was Roger Corman. I started going to see these exciting, fast, kind of cheesy but really fun monster movies, and there was one name that kept coming up on the screen: Roger Corman. 'It Conquered the World' (1956), 'Not of This Earth' (1957), 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' (1957), 'The Undead' (1957)... But | really understood for the first time what a director did when I saw 'Rio Bravo' in 1959. There was something about that movie that was like home and I can't really explain it. It was held over in Bowling Green for three or four weeks in a row because people kept coming to see it. I abandoned to see what was new in the other movie house in town to see this movie every weekend again and again because there was something in it that was different from the other westerns I had seen. I had certainly seen John Wayne before. He had become a part of my growing-up experience. He was the action guy, the cowboy. He was the guy in 'Flying Tigers' (1942) who was flying the airplanes. So what was so different about that movie? Then I became aware of this credit: “Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo.” I looked at the poster and I said to myself, “Who is this guy? He didn't write the movie and he wasn't starring in it so why is his name up here? And why is he last in the credits?” All these things started to occur to me, but it was the emotional impact of the film that got me to start using my brain. Some way I figure out that this director made that movie." ("The Prince of Darkness: The Prince of Darkness", Gilles Boulenger, 2001) P.S: Remembering the great American filmmaker Howard Hawks on his 130th birthday.

John Carpenter on how Howard Hawks's "Rio Bravo" (1959) inspired him to become a filmmaker: "As I got older I began to see that certain directors did certain things. One of the earliest examples of this was Roger Corman. I started going to see these exciting, fast, kind of cheesy but really fun monster movies, and there was one name that kept coming up on the screen: Roger Corman. 'It Conquered the World' (1956), 'Not of This Earth' (1957), 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' (1957), 'The Undead' (1957)... But | really understood for the first time what a director did when I saw 'Rio Bravo' in 1959. There was something about that movie that was like home and I can't really explain it. It was held over in Bowling Green for three or four weeks in a row because people kept coming to see it. I abandoned to see what was new in the other movie house in town to see this movie every weekend again and again because there was something in it that was different from the other westerns I had seen. I had certainly seen John Wayne before. He had become a part of my growing-up experience. He was the action guy, the cowboy. He was the guy in 'Flying Tigers' (1942) who was flying the airplanes. So what was so different about that movie? Then I became aware of this credit: “Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo.” I looked at the poster and I said to myself, “Who is this guy? He didn't write the movie and he wasn't starring in it so why is his name up here? And why is he last in the credits?” All these things started to occur to me, but it was the emotional impact of the film that got me to start using my brain. Some way I figure out that this director made that movie." ("The Prince of Darkness: The Prince of Darkness", Gilles Boulenger, 2001) P.S: Remembering the great American filmmaker Howard Hawks on his 130th birthday.

DepressedBergman

55,688 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

I shot this video while we were stuck on the highway in Waco during the flooding. I was very concerned that the retaining wall wasn’t going to hold up and we would all just be stuck. I shot this video when the first responders sowed up. But we were literally stuck. There was water in front of us water to the left water to the right and cars behind us. It was like something out of a movie

I shot this video while we were stuck on the highway in Waco during the flooding. I was very concerned that the retaining wall wasn’t going to hold up and we would all just be stuck. I shot this video when the first responders sowed up. But we were literally stuck. There was water in front of us water to the left water to the right and cars behind us. It was like something out of a movie

Rick Smith

41,908 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

🗣️Leo #Messi’s speech at the end of his #GOATTour : "I just want to thank everyone for the love and affection during these days in India. In fact, it was a truly beautiful experience for us to be able to share it. And although it was short and intense, it was wonderful to receive all this love that I knew existed, but receiving it directly was amazing. It was a crazy experience, everything they did for us these days. So, we carry all this love with us, and we will definitely return, hopefully one day to play a match or on another occasion, but we will definitely return to visit India. Thank you very much."

🗣️Leo #Messi’s speech at the end of his #GOATTour : "I just want to thank everyone for the love and affection during these days in India. In fact, it was a truly beautiful experience for us to be able to share it. And although it was short and intense, it was wonderful to receive all this love that I knew existed, but receiving it directly was amazing. It was a crazy experience, everything they did for us these days. So, we carry all this love with us, and we will definitely return, hopefully one day to play a match or on another occasion, but we will definitely return to visit India. Thank you very much."

Khel Now

134,582 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten