Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
by thornewolf on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:44PM
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for additional uninitiatedness: one of the founders is "Frying Pan", a popular youtuber. There has been previous discussion on the fact that the cost to build software is approaching 0. If that is given, maybe "taste" is all that matters. Funding a ~productless popular youtuber is a great way to test if "taste" and "brand" is better to invest in than tech in the years to come.
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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
by rsynnott on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:45PM
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> There has been previous discussion on the fact that the cost to build software is approaching 0.
People have been claiming that since COBOL came out (actually, probably before; I bet some people claimed it about _assembler_), so, er, yeah, will believe that one when I see it.
Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
by gfourfour on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:00AM
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“Taste” is something that’s developed through repetitive exposure to differentiated items in a particular set, combined with extremely high abstract analytical abilities, and that’s something completely different from having marketing or personal branding skills.
I think you’re right that that’s the evaluation happening, but it’s totally misguided. If you’re indexing for differentiating levels of taste I would be very wary of empty vessel young influencers. Taste is built over years and years and imo requires a certain disdain for the crowd. Look at Linus Torvalds as a pinnacle of taste in code for example.