Re:Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
by hkmurakami on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:15PM
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Perhaps Ben Horowitz was blinded by his own passion for rap music and relationships with artists themselves and knowing how much was left to be explored and explained... except perhaps most of the world often doesn't share that interest in depth or possess that depth to share in the first place.
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Re:Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
by xatan_dank on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:21PM
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I'm someone with a lot of passion for music (especially rap/hip-hop) and its interpretation, and I can't stand Genius. I think that it isn't that people lack the depth of Ben Horowitz, it's that Ben's vision for sharing and cultivating that depth in others isn't very good. Interactive browser line by line annotations are not a silver bullet for achieving rap nirvana.