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   by pgayed 6y ago

   There are probably more people supporting themselves from creative endeavors than ever before. (Proportionally and absolutely.) Think about all the tiktok'ers, OnlyFans, youtubers, instagram influencers, etc., who might have been other
2. 152.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   ^ this. Eighty percent of actors work as waiters & waitresses. Eighty percent of startups make $0. Why is this article topping hn?
3. 153.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   Louvre :)
4. 154.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   Investors are an instantiation of the class Customer.
5. 155.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   Implement the email spam solution that never was: set a nontrivial fee to create a (posting) account on hn. 10 bucks oughtta do the trick.
6. 156.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   How does value get created?
7. 157.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   A business doesn’t get to exist because of its employees. It gets to exist because of its customers.
8. 158.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   > unrelenting pursuit of business value Who determines what value a business gets assigned?
9. 159.▲
   by pgayed 6y ago

   Then how did the first people in that situation do it? Said differently, who invented the first bootstraps and how did they do it without bootstraps?
10. 160.▲
    by pgayed 6y ago

    > it doesn't seem to have done any damage. Because you quantified that the benefit of its presence is zero.
11. 161.▲
    by pgayed 6y ago

    For context, the hn post was submitted by replit’s founder.
12. 162.▲
    by pgayed 6y ago

    > because they are under-resourced or poorly connected This is soluble.
13. 163.▲
    by pgayed 6y ago

    Seems somewhat odd to acquire 27 points in two hours with only two comments [at time of writing]. Vote farm?
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    by pgayed 6y ago

    This is an absurd criticism. YC “had” money for the same reasons it’s a great institution: the ingenuity and character of its founders (PG, RTM, TB, JG). Money is created and how to create money is the same nature of problem as how to creat
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    by pgayed 7y ago

    Bezos talks about this in his talks (seen too many to remember which, but see his interview at the Economic Club with David Rubenstein); he mentioned "when you open up a buffet, at first you attract all the biggest eaters [high-order,
16. 166.▲
    by pgayed 7y ago

    > So it's not really greed it just makes things much easier to deal with and makes your books more sane. Thus serving the convenience of the accountants over one's patrons.