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Get enough sleep.

Selling on Amazon is not DTC. Shopify is DTC. Amazon is a middleman like Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Amazon doesn't handle all headaches- it creates numerous new headaches. Selling on Amazon is not a long term strategy and at most it should make up 1/3 of your digital sales.

Rather than stacking it should be lining up a variety of skills, because it is horizontal integration rather than vertical.

Rulers have to work to maintain or expand, otherwise they decline.

Service businesses definitely scale. See Accenture, WPP.

> Yes, we applied to YC. We didn't get an interview. I assume that the market size isn't big enough for VC.

Worse ideas with smaller markets have been funded by YC. I'm guessing you could have gotten in if you pitched a larger vision.

Did you play in DkH?

Software developers cannot sit down and design a new type of spacecraft engine.

Elon Musk. Google/Waymo. Uber. Every car company working on "selfdriving." Amazon. Etc. Literally everyone in tech is working on an AI-powered pipedream.

The ruling class works too. They rule.

Stock grant over 4 years, TC is per year.

They were fired because Musk himself is an incompetent manager. He hired and managed these managers so the failure of not being able to get the Org running is on him.

Amazon is fat and lazy now. They grew by offering the lowest prices on products you know, with fast shipping. Now, you don't know what you're buying or that you're getting the best price, and shipping isn't as fast.

The work of a developer at Google is more valuable than at other companies, especially in Europe. Because they create more value with the same skillset and doing similar work, Google can pay more.

Yeah, no.

Content producers trade in IP. There is no substitute for the Lion King. Now, the challenge is creating such IP consistently.

Being a distributor is no better than being a producer. They have different strengths and are reliant on each other. Who holds the power in the relationship is cyclical.

All platforms rise and eventually decline. Amazon has already started going downwards after it sacrificed quality in its chase for scale by opening up its platform to third parties and their counterfeits. Similarly, we'll see ecommerce in China move from Tmall to independently owned stores that allow for differentiation, higher service quality, and owning the customer relationship. Just like offline stores are now coming back, for the same reasons.

"Product Manager, Friend List at Facebook"

It's a funnel. You can drop out along the way but if you're not in it from the start then it's close to impossible to enter into it.

There are an incredible numbers of funded startups in China. You can't make up stuff because you live in the country.

Would be interested in seeing a write up on your services stack.

He does. And poor people. And old people. He still wants the money of advertisers targeting these groups though.

Snapchat didn't have to be a fad. Spiegels incompetence as a CEO and as a product person killed the business.

I read the whole memo, or tried to. Ridiculous. It means nothing at all. One OKR is "spread positivity". What does that even mean? How is it measurable? https://cheddar.com/videos/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-company-mem...

Get a VPN, that's all.

How's Johnny really managing his dependencies?

I don't need a citation to counter an obvious lie, by a notorious liar, backed by nothing. The same person also claims that he works 120 hour weeks. Obvious falsehood.

The technology isn't there. There will never be self driving cars.

Musk doesn't spend 85% of his time on engineering.

He did not design Falcon.