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Do you mean any ad ever, or just a podcast ad? If it's the former that is a pretty bold claim.
I don't think this is true with one of the major things they have been selling investors for years: self-driving cars. That certainly requires a lot of capital to pull off, and I think they plan is they would own those cars.
How sure are we that these $200 treatments do anything and aren't just snake oil? I feel that the reason why Victoria's secret models skin looks great has a lot to do with when you see them. You see them in professional photos most often. These photos benefit from:
1) Skilled photographers 2) Skilled make up artists 3) Perfect lighting 4) Photoshop
On the side of the user: because we don't like paying for services with money.
On the side of the company: hockey stick growth gets big pay outs, growth can happen much quicker if you give a service away and pay with advertiser.
However, it's a long slog without a big money payoff after graduation, in fact it is better to be a student in most cases.
http://dreamdirt.com/blog/iowa-farm-land-land-values-up-2-in...
I think one of the reasons why we get very "every person for themselves" when the price tag comes up is it's hard to think of the single mother living in her car while working every day because the most visible members are the addicts sitting in the alley passed out in their own feces next to your stolen bicycle. Also it's hard to get data on who is the more representative group.
1) In basketball they have widened the lane twice because of talented big men[1] 2) They also made goal tending illegal because of talented big men[1] 3) For a short period of time dunking was illegal in the NCAA[1] 4) Bob Gibson was so good at pitching that they lowered the mound 5) David Berkoff was so good a swimming underwater that Fina made swimmers come up at 15 meters (he would do 40 sometimes)
[1] https://www.school-for-champions.com/sports/basketball_playe...
I actual wonder how that works, did gimlet pay for this placement in nymag?
I'm also very surprised that X-ray does not hi-lite items on the screen that you could click to buy on Amazon (I assume someone is working on this), not saying I want it, just surprised the feature doesn't exist.
If you want to do long dives anything by Ken Burns, baseball is a classic: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/
A documentary about Napster directed by not Keanu of Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure, Downloaded: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2033981/