Now live for all: Substack Notes

Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by onion2k on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:30AM (#35535759)

Imagine spending only 30% of your net worth and getting to experiment with buying and growing one of the most used and talked about sites on the internet.

That sounds like one of the least interesting things I could do with $44bn.

With that sort of money I could fund 1000 Twitter rivals, and after a couple of years combine the successful and interesting ones into a single rival that would actually do something better than Twitter.

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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by nicenewtemp84 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:36AM (#35541525)

I think most of us would do that, but I don't think musk has the desire or time to start a VC studio.

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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by jodrellblank on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:35PM (#35543524)

> "That sounds like one of the least interesting things I could do with $44bn."

You could fund The Manhattan Project ($21Bn).

And the Panama Canal ($13Bn).

And the Concorde project ($2.5Bn).

And the Hoover Dam ($0.8Bn).

And an Eiffel Tower, a Statue of Liberty, and a statue of Christ the Redeemer. ($100s of M)

Buy yourself a B52 Stealth Bomber (~$2Bn).

And a Hindenburg ($100M), and a Titanic ($400M).

And still have a couple of billion left over.

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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by v0idzer0 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:33PM (#35549211)

Except you couldn’t really do most of that without government support and approval

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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by jodrellblank on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:47AM (#35555402)

Rather missing the point that any of those are more interesting than "a thousand Twitter clones". But even on that point, Musk managed to do a lot with SpaceX and Tesla supercharger network which need various government support and approvals.

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